There are also plenty of recent works about plagues real and fictional. Some famous ones include: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter; The Plague by Albert Camus; The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton; The Stand by Stephen King; and Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson.
As I was reading about the Spanish flu specifically, I found several modern fantasy or supernatural books that use this pandemic as a plot point. For instance, in Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, one of the main characters, Edward Cullen, catches the flu in 1918 along with his family. They die and he becomes a vampire. In Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, the main character experiences a series of lives that take place during the same time period but move in different directions. The flu kills her in some of her lives. One For Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn is a ghost story about a girl who dies during the flu and comes back to haunt the kids that bullied her. This isn’t a surprising trend, since plagues are inherently tragic, and tragedy is often the backbone of supernatural stories. This particular flu is recent enough that people are vaguely familiar with it and still has some living survivors, but it’s distant enough to be mysterious.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see what literary trends around COVID-19. Some books, fiction and nonfiction, are starting to come out now, but only time will tell where they’ll lead.
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