"The Scarlet Plague"

Submitted by LT_Sargent on Sat, 11/10/2018 - 12:06
Title"The Scarlet Plague"
Year for Search1912
AuthorsLondon, Jack [John Griffith](1876-1916)
Secondary TitleThe London Magazine
Date PublishedMay - June 1912
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged.
Info Notes

A ten-minute film with only two of the characters written and directed by Jeff Hanni (b. 1968) was released in 2012. 
Illustration

Macmillan ed. illus. Gordon Grant (1875-1962)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries version illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961)
Holding Institutions

PSt
Author Note

(1876-1916)
Full Text

1912 London, Jack [John Griffith] (1876-1916). “The Scarlet Plague.” The London Magazine 28 (May - June 1912): [June] 513-540. Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant (1875-1962). New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged. A ten-minute film with only two of the characters written and directed by Jeff Hanni (b. 1968) was released in 2012. PSt

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.