In one episode, a swarm of formerly human mutants emerge from a suburban crater with faces that seem to have burst outward into the kind of mushroomy blossoms you’d find under a log in the forest.

An urban farmer and Columbus chef has found a niche growing mushrooms that he promises will not serve as a precursor to a “The Last of Us” kind of zombie apocalypse. Marcus Smith, owner of Marc’s ...

Of course, all insects are different from one another. Finding the right ones to best grow the zombie-making fungus involved the equally gruesome process of testing different bugs as a growth medium.

The gruesome beasts that emerge from a suburban crater in the latest episode of HBO’s TV series “The Last of Us” don’t look like your average neighborhood zombies. First there’s a swarm of formerly ...