10 Fictional Pandemics to Make You Sweat

"Is there anything scarier than an outbreak of disease? I think that the most frightening thing about plague is how it challenges a character's ability to see their relatives and friends as anything other than potential vectors. Lions and tigers and bears can't undermine society the way the flu can, so let's read some scary, scary books about illness and deal with that primal fear in fiction! Here are a few bone-chilling fictional pandemics that will make you want to crawl under the covers."