![]() ![]() Symptoms appear within hours of infection, making the infected homicidal and shattering the social infrastructure. In Massachusetts a new strain of rabies has made the jump to human transmission. If the master of horror is feeling troubled, spare a thought for authors introducing new fictional crises into this uneasy summer.ĭepending on your appetite for plague fiction, the timing of Paul Tremblay’s Survivor Song is either excellent or appalling. In the early weeks of the outbreak Contagion leapt to the top of the most-streamed movie lists, Reddit and Twitter were aflame with claims that a Dean Koontz novel had “predicted” Covid-19, and comparisons to Stephen King’s 1978 disasterpiece, The Stand, were so frequent that the author himself felt the need to apologise for 2020. T he horror genre offers a frame of reference for global pandemic, however unsettling. ![]()
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