This presentation examines Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020) through an ecogothic and psychoanalytic lens, focusing on the novel’s depiction of fungal ecologies as agents of confinement, decay, and resistance. While prior scholarship has emphasized Moreno-Garcia’s reclamation of the European Gothic within a Mexican context, my analysis foregrounds the novel’s use of fungal networks as metaphors for colonial exploitation, patriarchal oppression, and slow violence. By situating Mexican Gothic in dialogue with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” I argue that the novel reimagines Gothic domestic spaces as toxic ecologies where the environment itself becomes complicit in the erosion of women’s physical and mental autonomy. High Place, the Doyle family’s decaying Victorian mansion, is not only a haunted house but also a parasitic organism sustained through the exploitation of mestiza women’s bodies. Yet, in their entanglement with this toxic ecology, Noemí and Catalina disrupt the Doyles’ colonial and eugenic legacy, reclaiming agency through resistance and survival. By reframing fungal contagion as both oppressive and transformative, Mexican Gothic reveals how ecological horror can destabilize inherited systems of racial and gendered violence while imagining possibilities for regeneration through destruction. FREE FOOD!!