THE GRAND BIZARRE

A look at some more of the popular science books which have gone viral during the coronavirus pandemic. Since we compiled our first...

Peter May: Lockdown (Quercus Publishing 2020) Lockdown is an unusual entrant to Encyclopaedia Pandemica; not apocalyptic as such but a...

Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (E. Nutt, London 1722) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English merchant and spy, and also a...

Spillover: Animal Infections and The Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (W. W. Norton & Company 2013. Published in the UK by Penguin)...

Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Strain (1969 Knopf USA) Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, many are turning to Michael Crichton’s...

In which a surprise discovery in made in the shops, the perfect sandwich is made, and Covid-19 causes an unexpected problem A Surprise...

Jack London: The Scarlet Plague (Written 1910, first published 1912 in The London Magazine. First book edition 1915 by Macmillan, USA.)...

Trying to Make Sense of the Taxonomy of Apocalyptic Writing We have a human tendency towards taxonomy – putting things into groups –...

Edgar Allen Poe: The Masque of the Red Death (First published as The Mask of the Red Death : a Fantasy in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s...

By Bizarre troupe member Kala T Disney Sarah Winchester is best known for building The Winchester Mystery House in San José, California....

Hidden or “Ghost” Parents in Victorian Photography Encouraging children to sit still and look at the camera is a common problem. It was,...

The Literature of Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues and Pestilences - Ripping Yarns, Uncanny Truths and hope for the post-Covid-19 world...

The Plague (La Peste) by Albert Camus (Gallimard, Paris 1947 – first English Translation Hamish Hamilton, London 1948) I first...

The Psychology of Pandemics - Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease by Steven Taylor (Cambridge Scholars...

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