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The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse Megapack TM: 18 Tales of Doom
Everyone loves a good disaster story. Fire, famine, disease, war...the world as we know it might end in a million different ways. The Plague, Pestilence, and Apocalypse MEGAPACK™ explores some of the holocausts that might befall mankind, with a special emphasis on plagues (a personal favorite theme of the publisher). If this volume proves popular, we'll do additional volumes focusing on other apocalyptic events... Ice ages? Atomic war? The death of the sun? The possibilities are endless.
Included in this volume:
PALLBEARER, by Robert Reed
PANDEMIC, by J. F. Bone
WINGS OF THE BLACK DEATH, by Norvell Page
THE MAN WHO LIVED, by Raymond F. O'Kelley
THE UNPARALLELED INVASION, by Jack London
THE 4TH PLAGUE, by Edgar Wallace
THE GERM GROWERS, by Robert Potter
THE ANIMALS SICK OF THE PLAGUE, by Jean de La Fontaine
THOTH, by Joseph Shield Nicholson
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, by Edgar Allan Poe
THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F. Jones
THE SCARLET PLAGUE, by Jack London
THE PLAGUE IN BERGAMO, by Jens Peter Jacobsen
THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller
THE LAST MAN, by Mary Shelley
A LEGEND, by Lafcadio Hearn
THE DUST OF DEATH, by Fred M. White
THE COFFIN CURE, by Alan E. Nourse
1034 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 3, 2015
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May 14, 2022
Just Awful
The worst anthology I have ever read.
The short stories are fine, a few are even good. Most of the stories in this book were written between 1826 and 1961
But the two novelas are utterly terrible
"The Germ Growers by Robert Potter 1892" is a very thinly veiled uber religious story about men fighting against the devil and having to utterly devout themselves to and have utter belief in god to defeat the devil.
The worst part is the constant spelling mistakes, well over 100 of them. "The" is constantly written as "he", "car" is constantly written as "ear"
"The Last Man by Mary Shelley 1826" I don't know what happened between Frankenstein 1818 and this book, but unlike Frankenstein this is awful. The endless comparisons, four or five of them for everything. A page and a half comparing his sister's smile to endless other things.
It was an effort of masochistic torture not to abandon this book.
The worst anthology I have ever read.
The short stories are fine, a few are even good. Most of the stories in this book were written between 1826 and 1961
But the two novelas are utterly terrible
"The Germ Growers by Robert Potter 1892" is a very thinly veiled uber religious story about men fighting against the devil and having to utterly devout themselves to and have utter belief in god to defeat the devil.
The worst part is the constant spelling mistakes, well over 100 of them. "The" is constantly written as "he", "car" is constantly written as "ear"
"The Last Man by Mary Shelley 1826" I don't know what happened between Frankenstein 1818 and this book, but unlike Frankenstein this is awful. The endless comparisons, four or five of them for everything. A page and a half comparing his sister's smile to endless other things.
It was an effort of masochistic torture not to abandon this book.
September 17, 2022
Caveat emptor
Potential buyers/readers should be aware that the bulk lf this book is given over to a reprint of Mary Shelly's "The Last Man," a 2-volume tome written in florid Victorian-era style. The first volume is a Harlequin Romance having nothing to do with plagues or pestilences. Only in the second volume does plague raise its ugly head, and only after half of it is devoted to the Harlequin Romance. The rest of the book is just reprints of 19th- and early 20th-century science-fiction and fantasy on a plague theme.
Potential buyers/readers should be aware that the bulk lf this book is given over to a reprint of Mary Shelly's "The Last Man," a 2-volume tome written in florid Victorian-era style. The first volume is a Harlequin Romance having nothing to do with plagues or pestilences. Only in the second volume does plague raise its ugly head, and only after half of it is devoted to the Harlequin Romance. The rest of the book is just reprints of 19th- and early 20th-century science-fiction and fantasy on a plague theme.
August 5, 2022
Entertaining fantasy listening 🎶🔰
Eighteen will written fantasy Sci-Fi adventure thriller short stories and novels by different authors. As with box 📦 sets and Megapacks some stories are very good and others not so much. I would recommend this Megapack to readers of fantasy haunting horror stories. Enjoy the adventure of reading all kinds of different types of novels 👍🔰 and books 📚. 2022
Eighteen will written fantasy Sci-Fi adventure thriller short stories and novels by different authors. As with box 📦 sets and Megapacks some stories are very good and others not so much. I would recommend this Megapack to readers of fantasy haunting horror stories. Enjoy the adventure of reading all kinds of different types of novels 👍🔰 and books 📚. 2022
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June 29, 2021The "Bug"
These stories were just right for me. Especially the ones written in the late 1800s.
particularly the Mary Shelley with the 2092 date. That is too close. Loved it . And the Legend.
Enjoyed all of these, something about the end of the things.
These stories were just right for me. Especially the ones written in the late 1800s.
particularly the Mary Shelley with the 2092 date. That is too close. Loved it . And the Legend.
Enjoyed all of these, something about the end of the things.
June 3, 2018
one of the worst anthologies I've ever read.filed with stodgy, boring stories mostly from the early 20th century. there wasn't one memorable story in here.
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