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Fungus the Bogeyman is a 1977 children's picture book by British artist Raymond Briggs. It follows one day in the life of the title character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. The character and all related properties are now owned by Vivendi's Studiocanal.
- Raymond Briggs
- Children's
- 1977
- 42
Fungus the Bogeyman: With Timothy Spall, Joanna Scanlan, Keeley Hawes, Marc Warren. Fungus is happy making a mess and scaring people until his teenage son runs away to the human world 'Up Top'.
- (287)
- 2015-12-27
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- 67
Fungus was adapted into a ‘Plop Up’ book, stage play and two television series and inspired a song, ‘Bogey Music’, by Paul McCartney. Briggs started planning four sequels. Associated stories
Apr 20, 2015 · Timothy Spall, Keeley Hawes and Victoria Wood will star in Sky1’s new adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ Fungus the Bogeyman, part of a big-name line-up including Andy Serkis and Marc Warren.
Fungus the Bogeyman (1977; first American edition 1979) offers both the most fully developed fantasy and the most outrageous affront to conventional mores of all Briggs's children's books to date. It also marks the midpoint of a philosophic curve Briggs has been tracing from the cheerful confidence of Jim and the Beanstalk (1970), to the black ...
Jan 13, 2015 · The book, originally published in 1977, was previously adapted by the BBC in a three-part series in 2004 starring Martin Clunes and Fay Ripley and written by Mark Haddon.
Dec 22, 2015 · Tom MacRae's three-part adaptation of the classic Raymond Briggs children's story, which begins on 27 December, charts the difficulties experienced by a grime-smeared renegade family from the...
