The Plague Narrative

Literature of pestilence and quarantine — Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, and the dread of contagion.

When the world falls sick

In this collection

• The Trippertrots and the Kind Policeman
• The Red Record
• The Hail-Storm. from the Ancient Norse
• The White Room
• Arethusa
• Nurse Mikko
• Enter a Dragoon
• The King of Uruk
• Jeduthan Hawley
• The Swartz Diamond
• Agatha Webb
• Thicker than Water
• Morning Work
• On the Shore at Dawn
• The Cattle Plague
• The Animals Sick of the Plague
• Death in Venice

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