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COPYRIGHT INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
PALLBEARER, by Robert Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PANDEMIC, by J . F . Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
WINGS OF THE BLACK DEATH, by Norvell Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
THE MAN WHO LIVED, by Raymond F . O’Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
THE UNPARALLELED INVASION, by Jack London . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
THE 4TH PLAGUE, by Edgar Wallace (Part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
THE 4TH PLAGUE, by Edgar Wallace (Part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
THE GERM GROWERS, by Robert Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
THE ANIMALS SICK OF THE PLAGUE, by Jean de La Fontaine . . . . . 578
THOTH, by Joseph Shield Nicholson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, by Edgar Allan Poe . . . . . . . . . 659
THE GREAT GRAY PLAGUE, by Raymond F . Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
THE SCARLET PLAGUE, by Jack London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742
THE PLAGUE IN BERGAMO, by Jens Peter Jacobsen . . . . . . . . . . . 794
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THE PLAGUE, by Teddy Keller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
THE LAST MAN, by Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
A LEGEND, by Lafcadio Hearn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269
THE DUST OF DEATH, by Fred M . White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1272
THE COFFIN CURE, by Alan E . Nourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289
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COPYRIGHT INFO
The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK™ is copy-
right © 2014 by Wildside Press, LLC . All rights reserved . Cover art
© MamabaB / Fotolia .
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The MEGAPACK™ ebook series name is a trademark of Wild-
side Press, LLC . All rights reserved .
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“Pallbearer,” by Robert Reed, was originally published in The
Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF . Copyright © 2003 by Robert
Reed . Reprinted by permission of the author .
All other stories are in the public domain . Originally publication
information follows the story title .
COPYRIGHT INFO | 3
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Everyone loves a good disaster story . Fire, famine, disease, war…
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Plague, Pestilence, and Apocalypse MEGAPACK™ explores some
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