The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The Scarlet Plague might not be the absolute grand-daddy of apocalypse by plague stories (Mary Shelley’s The Last Man was written 75 years earlier) but it’s certainly one of the first.
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The Last Man by Mary Shelley
The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826.
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The Last Man by Thomas Wood, a post-apocalyptic poem from 1824.
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