Philip Themio Stoddard

Tired and overworked, Lacey comes home to discover her boyfriend Miles has not only neglected to clean the apartment, he's left a disturbing surprise in the refrigerator: rapidly growing "shrooms" that he acquired from a sketchy janitor. The couple's initial curiosity leads to terror as the mushrooms take over their kitchen, minds, and ultimately bodies.

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.