Death Spore — Harry Adam Knight

It was the happiest day of Jane Wilson's life. The giant mushroom she had cultivated in her laboratory -- the result of seven years of hard work and painstaking research -- was big and protein-rich enough to provide a full day's nourishment. In quantity, her gargantuan vegetable could solve the problem of world hunger. Who knows -- she might even win the Nobel Prize.

What Jane didn't know was that her genetic experiment had created a monstrous plague. The man-made microbe was loose and proliferating, its microscopic spores carrying the horror to the far reaches of the earth, even beyond the range of nuclear weapons. Victims found their bodies transformed, their minds taken over, haunted by dark obsessions and inhuman desires.

And Jane -- the only one who could synthesize and antibody -- hand gone stark raving mad…