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  2. The Scarlet Plague - Wikipedia

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    The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.

  3. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The rat plague killed almost half of the population of the city of Dunwall, the fictional city from Dishonored. Individuals with the rat plague can cure themselves via use of Sokolov's Health Elixir. Once blood comes from the nose or eyes there is no way to be cured. It is also known as the doom of Pandyssia. Rosalia virus Trauma Team

  4. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.

  5. Disease in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Jack London's 1912 The Scarlet Plague was reprinted in the February 1949 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Diseases, especially if infectious, have long been popular themes and plot devices in fiction. [1] [7] Daniel Defoe's pioneering 1722 A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictional diary of a man's life during the plague year of 1665 in ...

  6. The Masque of the Red Death in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Jack London's novella The Scarlet Plague (1912) was inspired in part by Poe's story. [1] In the book, much of humanity has been wiped out by a disease sometimes referred to as "Red Death". Stephen King's novel The Shining contains several allusions to the story. For example, the line "and the red death held sway over all" seems to reference the ...

  7. The Unparalleled Invasion - Wikipedia

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    The United States enlists the help of other Western powers and amasses an invasion force on China's borders. America then launches a biological warfare campaign against China, resulting in the total destruction of China's population, with the few survivors of the plague being killed out of hand by European and American troops. Some German ...

  8. Badge of shame - Wikipedia

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    A medieval "Mask of Shame", or scold's bridle. A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, a mark of shame or a stigma, [1] is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution.

  9. Plague cross - Wikipedia

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    The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, to enable plague sufferers to trade while minimising the risk of contagion. A wide variety of plague cross existed in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, until the plague largely disappeared by the eighteenth century.