This Friday at Confluence:The Pandemic’s Impact on Horror Fiction

I’ve been doing my best to learn from the examples set by writers who lived through past epidemics – Sherwood Anderson, Beatrix Potter, and W.E.B. Du Bois (all of whom wrote during the 1918 flu outbreak); and Francesco Petrarca, Thomas Nash, and William Shakespeare (who penned some of their greatest works during Europe’s deadliest plagues).

The above excerpt is from a piece I posted here in September 2020.

As far as I know, none of those plays or novels were about influenza or plague, but today ...