Epidemics in Popular Culture

If you are someone who is drawn to sci-fi and horror in what you read, listen to, and watch, you are not alone, and fictionalized accounts of pandemics are likely to be of interest.  One might imagine that filmmaker Fritz Lang anticipated such an audience when, in 1919, he wrote Pest in Florenz [Plague of Florence], a short silent film about the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death. That interest continues into the present. Even in the midst of a pandemic--or maybe because people have more time on their hands during the current COVID-19 pandemic--this genre is wildly popular in pop culture.

Here is a selected list of items, some of which may be new to you.

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