Best Plague
"The Black Spider" (Die schwarze Spinne) is an 1842 novella by Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf (pen name of pastor Albert Bitzius). Set in a village in the Emmental valley, the story employs a complex narrative frame to tell a tale of moral failure and redemption across generations. The plot centers...
Daniel Defoe’s *A Journal of the Plague Year* offers a detailed account of the 1665 outbreak in London through a series of letters. The novel’s realism and focus on observation provided an influential depiction of the plague's devastating impact. It is valuable for historians, readers interested in...
Have Mercy on Us All is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. In Paris, cryptic symbols appear on doors while a public crier is paid to recite messages warning that plague has returned. When deaths begin to follow, Adamsberg investigates whether th...
Nergal is a Mesopotamian god associated with war, plague, death, and the underworld. Originally a solar deity representing the scorching heat of the midday sun, he evolved into the primary lord of the underworld. According to mythology, he became the consort of Ereshkigal, queen of the dead, and co-...
Eternity Road is Jack McDevitt's 1997 novel about explorers crossing a post-plague North America to recover knowledge from the lost civilization.
"The Book of M" is a 2018 post-apocalyptic fiction novel and the debut work of American author Peng Shepherd. The narrative explores a catastrophic global phenomenon where humans and animals inexplicably lose their shadows, a process that triggers the rapid erasure of their memories. As society coll...
Jim Crace's 2007 novel "The Pesthouse" is set in a depopulated, regressed America where survivors face a primitive existence following an unspecified technological and societal collapse.
Playing History: The Plague is a Danish educational adventure set in 14th-century Florence and winner of a European Best Learning Game award.
