Any media set in a Post-Plague Apocalypse?

[Cikomyr2]

So, for some reason, I got thinking some more about plague-related apocalypse in fiction, and I was wondering if someone knows of a story with an apocalyptic plague that wiped civilization.

Not zombies please. An actual plague.

[comicshorse]

Going waaaaaaaay back to my childhood the BBC did 'Survivors'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

I think they also did a modern remake of it

[Cikomyr2]

Going waaaaaaaay back to my childhood the BBC did 'Survivors'

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

I think they also did a modern remake of it

Looks spooky as ****. Love it.

[hamishspence]

There's The Tribe as well


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tribe_(1999_TV_series)

[TaRix]

I only know what I've read on TvTropes (a plague in itself), but the comic book series "Y: The Last Man" has shades of this.

But there's a more realistic take on civilization's decline in the YA book trilogy "Partials," set post-collapse but only by twenty years or so.
Also, by the same author, is a farcical horror "Extreme Makeover" where an extremely aggressive cosmetic and marketing campaign destroy humanity.

[J-H]

The Stand, by Steven King
I feel like I have 1 or 2 others on my TEOTWAWKI bookshelf, but not sure. A lot of the older novels focused around nukes and economic collapse.

Of course, plague brings economic collapse....

[comicshorse]

I remember 'Carriers' as being good but very dark. A snapshot of a small group of people trying to survive in a plague destroyed world

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806203/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39

[2D8HP]

The 1949 science-fiction novel Earth Abides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides) by George R. Stewart was well known by "Boomer" sci-fi fans, I last read it as a teenager in the '80's.

[J-H]

Ah, I recall Earth Abides. May have a copy of it somewhere.

[Kid Jake]

I Am Legend had vampires as the primary threat to the main character; but if I recall right most of the world died from the plague that preceded them.

Jeremiah was about a world where everyone over the age of like 16 died from a pandemic twenty years ago and they've had to relearn even basic skills since nobody was around to teach them.

[Kareeah_Indaga]

No mention of Stand Still, Stay Silent (https://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1) yet?

Then it pleases me to be the first. :smallcool:

Prologue is just as the plague is starting, the main story is some time afterwards.

[HandofShadows]

A movie from 2008 called Doomsday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_(2008_film) Takes place in Scotland after the a plague ravages the place and its quarantined. But years later the plague is starting to spread and the only cure might be in Scotland.

[LibraryOgre]

I Am Legend had vampires as the primary threat to the main character; but if I recall right most of the world died from the plague that preceded them.

Jeremiah was about a world where everyone over the age of like 16 died from a pandemic twenty years ago and they've had to relearn even basic skills since nobody was around to teach them.

There's also "Last Man on Earth", the TV series, but, yeah, "I Am Legend"/"The Omega Man" qualify.

Another example. (https://youtu.be/KQ6zr6kCPj8)

[Rodin]

No mention of Stand Still, Stay Silent (https://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1) yet?

Then it pleases me to be the first. :smallcool:

Prologue is just as the plague is starting, the main story is some time afterwards.

I was going to mention it, but I wasn't sure if it qualifies as zombies or not. Does the population of the world turning into eldritch abominations count, or not?

Still, it is a bit different in that it is a plague that does the work. We also don't see the fall of society, we start from established enclaves well after the fact.

Edit: Also recommending Doomsday. It's pure schlock, but it's awesome schlock. Think Mad Max Scotland.

[Bohandas]

Children of Men was a plague apocalypse. And the weird thing was that the apocalypse was on a slow burn, because the plague didn't kill most people it just made over 99.9% of the population infertile so the population was very slowly crashing as people died from old age and society started to run out of people to fill vital infrastructure jobs.

[Jeivar]

So, for some reason, I got thinking some more about plague-related apocalypse in fiction

"For some reason"

Yeah.

[KatsOfLoathing]

Station Eleven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven) is a recent favorite of mine that falls into this genre - though it jumps around in time and between characters quite a lot, so portions of it are also set before and during the apocalypse as well as afterwards. Worth a read if you like deep character studies and (optionally) lots of faux-religious symbolism.

[Xyril]

It's navy recruitment porn on the level of Top Gun, and probably about the same in terms of sophistication, but The Last Ship TV series was pretty enjoyable and sort of covers the topic. It's only tangentially related to its source material, a book about a nuclear apocalypse, and not a global pandemic. It's also substantially more optimistic in many respects.

Also, Battlestar Galactica, if you count man's hubris as a plague--because watching or rewatching BSG is always a good use of some down time.

[Arutema]

It's quite spoilery, but I'll add the Nier series.

Humanity turned themselves into 'gestalts' (shades) to survive a plague, leaving the Earth populated with artificial 'replicant' humans and androids. But then the gestalts and replicants started fighting each other.

[Cikomyr2]

Oh wait. Wasn't The Division also about a plague and shooting minorities?

[gomipile]

You might like the novel Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. The bulk of the story is set in the titular Chasm City on a planet that used to be the jewel of an interstellar post-scarcity transhuman society. A plague that affected both people and nanotech-based machines has rendered a lot of the transhuman technology very dangerous to use, and ruined a lot more. The plague also precipitated a lot of space disasters which ruined much of the orbital infrastructure.

And, since travel and communication is limited by the speed of light in this society, lots of people kept arriving after the plague did its worst.

The current society is still capable of interstellar flight, but there are big gaps in their capabilities. The incomplete recovery makes for a run-down post-cyberpunk atmosphere.

All of that is part of the backdrop for a sort of noir mystery story.

Anyway, I found it interesting. And I'm still thinking about the story over a decade after reading it.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Cikomyr2
…I was wondering if someone knows of a story with an apocalyptic plague that wiped civilization.

Light of My Life is a recent movie about a plague which targeted women, and follows a father and his young daughter as they survive on their own.

Fair warning--while I like the concept, I confess I quit watching after less than an hour. It’s the most tedious post-apocalyptic movie I’ve ever tried to watch, except possibly I Think We’re Alone Now, which I also quit after less than an hour. I don’t usually do that, but these two just failed to grab me.


Originally Posted by Xyril
It's navy recruitment porn on the level of Top Gun, and probably about the same in terms of sophistication, but The Last Ship TV series was pretty enjoyable and sort of covers the topic.

I was about to mention this, if not necessarily recommend it. They needed the Navy to film on Navy ships, so it’s as rah-rah as you can get. Brain-free dumb fun is about the best you can hope for. Characters make forehead-smackingly stupid decisions on a near-constant basis, and the captain tends to solve issues by being macho and American at things.

Also, ensigns freely give their opinions to the captain on his bridge in crisis situations, which Does Not Happen in the real Navy.


Originally Posted by Xyril
It's only tangentially related to its source material, a book about a nuclear apocalypse, and not a global pandemic.

I read the original novel in the early 90s and loved it. It is just as bleak as the subject matter demands, and a tremendously good read.

Presumably the producers of the TV show thought that a pandemic was more “relevant” than a full nuclear exchange. The pandemic certainly offered more opportunities for land-based storylines, including the slow rebuilding of national governments, but I would have preferred to see a creative adaptation of the original novel.


Originally Posted by Xyril
Also, Battlestar Galactica, if you count man's hubris as a plague--because watching or rewatching BSG is always a good use of some down time.

So true.

Also, there was one episode which did involve a plague, I think in the third season. Not one of their best, but it fits the bill.

[Kareeah_Indaga]

Some of the Muirwood books (Jeff Wheeler) - I want to say the Cipher trilogy - take place after the aftermath of a major plague/war mess. It might be a little too post- post-apocalypse though, as by the time the trilogy starts civilization has picked itself back up again.

Most of the other plague-centric books I'm aware of take place during the start of the outbreak and focus on the protagonists trying to stop it. But for completeness' sake I'll mention them anyway: Moreta (Dragonriders of Pern series) and Empire of Ivory (Temeraire series book 4).

Subnautica might fit OP's criteria, although it's mostly an exploration game and not terribly plot-heavy.


I was going to mention it, but I wasn't sure if it qualifies as zombies or not. Does the population of the world turning into eldritch abominations count, or not?

Fair enough, I mostly looked at it as an in-universe excuse for swords and sorcery in what would otherwise be a copy of the 'real' world.

[tomandtish]

It's navy recruitment porn on the level of Top Gun, and probably about the same in terms of sophistication, but The Last Ship TV series was pretty enjoyable and sort of covers the topic. It's only tangentially related to its source material, a book about a nuclear apocalypse, and not a global pandemic. It's also substantially more optimistic in many respects.

Also, Battlestar Galactica, if you count man's hubris as a plague--because watching or rewatching Seasons 1, 2, and first 4 episodes of 3 of BSG is always a good use of some down time.

Fixed that for you... :smallbiggrin:

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Kareeah_Indaga
Moreta (Dragonriders of Pern series)….

As I recall, Moreta was able to help stop the sickness, so not really a plague-related apocalypse as the OP requested. Most of the weyrs were dark for four hundred years, but that was related to Thread rather than the disease.


Originally Posted by tomandtish
Fixed that for you...

Hey, I liked Season 4.

Mid-Season 3 definitely sags, to the point that I usually skip several episodes, but end of Season 3 into Season 4 works for me. I love how they slip Orion into the starfield once we get close to journey’s end.

[Kitten Champion]

There was a somewhat brief-lived post-apocalyptic television series starring Luke Perry and produced by J. Michael Straczynski called Jeremiah.

Set in 2021, where bio-warfare led to a virus that killed anyone past the age of 13, leaving children orphaned as civilization collapsed around them. Luke Perry (the titular Jeremiah) and his friend wind up working for a secret group run out of NORAD which are aiming to bring back civilization from warlords and generalized chaos.

I honestly didn't have much expectations when the DVDs suddenly showed up in our movie collection - they were pretty heavily on sale - but I quite enjoyed it all-told. It's not Babylon 5-levels of greatness or anything, but it doesn't feel as canned as a lot of cheaper Canadian-American television can get -- more ambitious and unpredictable. Also Luke Perry wasn't a bad actor, despite my initial soured outlook on him. I'd rate it as my favourite as far as the genre goes on television, until The Last of Us shows up on HBO.

[brionl]

The 1949 science-fiction novel Earth Abides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides) by George R. Stewart was well known by "Boomer" sci-fi fans, I last read it as a teenager in the '80's.

Argh, you beat me to it. I'll have to fall back on The Day of the Triffids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids), which was also a movie.

[Bohandas]

In The Mouth of Madness has an outbreak of literature-induced mass psychosis that plays a role in the end of the world.

[Kareeah_Indaga]

As I recall, Moreta was able to help stop the sickness, so not really a plague-related apocalypse as the OP requested.

I did specifically call that out when I mentioned the book. :smalltongue:

[Eldan]

You might like the novel Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. The bulk of the story is set in the titular Chasm City on a planet that used to be the jewel of an interstellar post-scarcity transhuman society. A plague that affected both people and nanotech-based machines has rendered a lot of the transhuman technology very dangerous to use, and ruined a lot more. The plague also precipitated a lot of space disasters which ruined much of the orbital infrastructure.

And, since travel and communication is limited by the speed of light in this society, lots of people kept arriving after the plague did its worst.

The current society is still capable of interstellar flight, but there are big gaps in their capabilities. The incomplete recovery makes for a run-down post-cyberpunk atmosphere.

All of that is part of the backdrop for a sort of noir mystery story.

Anyway, I found it interesting. And I'm still thinking about the story over a decade after reading it.

Chasm City is very recommended.

More tangentially, since you reminded me of nanobot plagues, there's The Quantum Thief and especially its sequel The Fractal Prince. They aren't really post-apocalyptic as such, since there's several very transhuman civilizations still hanging around the solar system, but Earth is basically considered an uninhabitable quarantine zone by them, since it's full of disembodied rogue AI and deserts of grey goo that eats any transhuman tech that gets closer to Earth than a high orbit.

There is an interesting post-apocalyptic civilization on Earth, that is heavily based on a Thousand and One Nights aesthetic, a civilization that says they came from a City made of Glass in the sky that was thrown to the ground and shattered (an orbital habitat), once connected to the planet only by an infinite rope (a space elevator) and they have special castes of people who talk to the whispering desert sands (interface with nanobot servitors), talk to the Djinns that lie buried under the sand (old AIs) and access the hidden paradise dimensions that the ancients buried under the sand (hermetically sealed servers running backup copies of old minds of the megarich in VR).

[J-H]

Frank Herbert (the author of Dune) wrote The White Plague. A geneticist/bioweapons researcher-type guy gets his wife and daughters blown up by the IRA or something, and decides "Screw it, if my women die, everyone's women die." He makes a plague that kills women and spreads it by somehow mass-infecting the cash supply; people who evacuate take their money, and thus spread the virus.

It ends up with some number of women surviving, but a pretty small #, and some odd but predictable social effects as a result.

Not post-apocalyptic, as technology & governments survive, but it's along the same general vein as the OP's request.

[Xyril]

Frank Herbert (the author of Dune) wrote The White Plague. A geneticist/bioweapons researcher-type guy gets his wife and daughters blown up by the IRA or something, and decides "Screw it, if my women die, everyone's women die." He makes a plague that kills women and spreads it by somehow mass-infecting the cash supply; people who evacuate take their money, and thus spread the virus.


Wait, so did the author decide that "My family was killed by the Irish, so I'm going to take revenge on all of the Irish" was too cliche?

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Cikomyr2
…I was wondering if someone knows of a story with an apocalyptic plague that wiped civilization.

If we include campaign settings and other RPG products, like modules, APs, etc., is there anything that fits this request?

I can only think of two possibilities right off. In Pathfinder, a plague features prominently in Book 2 of Curse of the Crimson Throne, to the point that a city is on the edge of collapse. I haven’t run or played this AP, but I’m assuming the plague has the potential to scour the lands if left uncontrolled.

In 3.5, The Burning Plague is a module which deals with a localized outbreak, which is small enough that several first-level characters should be able to contain it. (This isn’t strictly apocalyptic, but mentioned for completeness.)

Are there any another modules or APs featuring plague? And are there any campaign settings ravaged by plague, either in whole or in part?

[Bohandas]

I don't know why I didn't think of this before...

Have you read Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death?

[comicshorse]

I don't know why I didn't think of this before...

Have you read Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Or the movie with Vincent Price :smallcool:

[Xyril]

Are there any another modules or APs featuring plague? And are there any campaign settings ravaged by plague, either in whole or in part?

You could always homebrew a backstory that makes Settlers of Cataan really, really dark.

[Rodin]

Another sort-of example that I just thought of - Dr. Stone. Blinding flash of light, entire world population turned to stone. Thousands of years later one of them wakes up and has to work out how to unpetrify more people and bring civilization back starting from the Stone Age.

[Dexam]

The Planet of the Apes reboot movies (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes) meet the criteria - particularly the second and third movies, as most of human civilisation is wiped out by the simian flu; the first movie is "pre-plague".

[Bohandas]

The RPG Exalted is set 1000 years after a cataclysm called "The Great Contagion" which killed 90% of the population

EDIT:

Also, the first adventure in the Ravenloft supplement Children of the Night: The Created involves the aftermath of a plague

EDIT:

In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Vampirus" the world has been ravaged by a virus that turns people into 'crazy vampires'

[Bohandas]

OMG. I just realized that none of us mentioned the movie 12 Monkeys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys) yet

[Muz]

There's The Last Ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_(TV_series)) - a series set on a U.S. Navy vessel after a worldwide plague. I saw the first season but never caught up with it after that. I seem to remember it being interesting, though, and had Adam Baldwin in it.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Bohandas
Also, the first adventure in the Ravenloft supplement Children of the Night: The Created involves the aftermath of a plague.

That sounds deliciously obscure, I’ll have to check it out.


Originally Posted by Bohandas
I just realized that none of us mentioned the movie 12 Monkeys yet.

And now I’m kicking myself. I loved that movie in the theater, although it didn’t really hold up when I saw it again. I think they cheated in one of the flashback scenes, substituting one red-headed guy for another.


Originally Posted by Muz
There's The Last Ship - a series set on a U.S. Navy vessel after a worldwide plague.

Already mentioned in post #18 on the previous page.

Unless you really, really liked it, don’t worry about watching any more.

[Cikomyr2]

Unless you really, really liked it, don’t worry about watching any more.

It was pleasant in the first 3 seasons. Cheesy and stupid, but pleasant.

I utterly lost interest after 2 episodes of season 4

[Palanan]

I just came across another movie relevant to the OP's request, What Still Remains.

From the trailer it seems to be a bog-standard post-apocalypse with wandering loners and stuff. Forum rules prevent discussion of most of the trailer, but it looks pretty terrible. Can't recommend it, mentioned for completeness.

[Giggling Ghast]

Oh wait. Wasn't The Division also about a plague and shooting minorities?

No, because that would have been a political stance (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-division-2-review), albeit an abhorrent one. The Division and The Division 2 are about shooting generic looters who oppose the good guys, ie. the secret police who loot everything they can.


There's The Last Ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_(TV_series)) - a series set on a U.S. Navy vessel after a worldwide plague. I saw the first season but never caught up with it after that. I seem to remember it being interesting, though, and had Adam Baldwin in it.

You wouldn't mention that as a plus if you'd ever followed his Twitter account.

[Cikomyr2]

You wouldn't mention that as a plus if you'd ever followed his Twitter account.

Let's just say I enjoy him generally as an actor and never speak of him again, shall we?

[Giggling Ghast]

Fair enough.

Regarding the subject of the thread, there was a 2009 film called Carriers that perfectly fits the bill. It was about a group of youths travelling by car across an America ravaged by avian flu.

In addition to avoiding infection, they also have to contend with survivalists who want to kidnap the two girls in the group. Notably, Chris Pine was one of the main characters.

Here be the trailer. ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qByFXk_XKRs)

[Giggling Ghast]

On the video game side of things, I’m surprised no one has mention A Plague Tale: Innocence. It is set in France during the Black Plague, which is easily one of the bleakest periods in history. It generally got good reviews and is regarded as one of the better games put out by Focus Home Interactive.

Here be the trailer. ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtP6mNeN6yE)

Also, wasn’t there a plague ravaging the city in Dishonored?

[Kitten Champion]

Speaking of plagues, one of the more interesting depictions of life during a horrific epidemic is The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio from the 14th century. It's a series of stories told by a group of ten young men and women who are in... self-isolation I guess, in a villa just outside of Florence during the Black Death as they try pass the weeks in the manner of young adults.

It's got dense early-Italian prose as you'd might expect, and it's not about the Black Death really. Still, it's got this eerie apocalyptic aspect to it through its framing where death is just surrounding them casually and they're engaging in witty banter, romance, and social commentary.

[Bohandas]

There's also that episode of Star Trek Voyager with the alien civilization that was decimated by "the phage"

[137beth]

No End (https://www.noendcomic.com/) is a webcomic set in a world where a zombie apocalypse happened several decades ago. The zombies carry an infectious disease which turns other people into zombies, so I think it counts as post-plague.

[Giggling Ghast]

There's also that episode of Star Trek Voyager with the alien civilization that was decimated by "the phage"

The Vidiians (the aliens stricken with the phage, which forced them to harvest skin and organs from members of other species to prolong their survival) were actually recurring antagonists in the first two seasons of Voyager. I actually liked them a fair bit.

[Bohandas]

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes "Hypno Germ" "Pirahna Germs" "The Clowning" and "Vampirus" all deal with the show's characters encountering bizarre infectious diseases (although only "Vampirus" has an actual wide-scale putbreak)

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Bohandas
There's also that episode of Star Trek Voyager with the alien civilization that was decimated by "the phage”….

I don’t think it’s been mentioned, but one of the early episodes of Deep Space Nine involved Dr. Bashir treating a virulent plague on another world—not sure if it was in the Gamma Quadrant or close to Bajor.

I can’t recall many details, other than Bashir being extremely smug and smarmy, but I think the plague had decimated the population and warped their lives to the point that people scheduled their own demise.


Originally Posted by Kareeah_Indaga
No mention of Stand Still, Stay Silent yet?

I ran across this years ago, nice to see it again. I’d forgotten how quietly beautiful the artwork is.


Originally Posted by 137ben
No End is a webcomic set in a world where a zombie apocalypse happened several decades ago. The zombies carry an infectious disease which turns other people into zombies, so I think it counts as post-plague.

Probably, although the OP did explicitly state no zombies. Not sure if zombies + plague would qualify.

[HandofShadows]

Also, wasn’t there a plague ravaging the city in Dishonored?

Yep. A disease and a plague of rats as well. :smalleek:



I don’t think it’s been mentioned, but one of the early episodes of Deep Space Nine involved Dr. Bashir treating a virulent plague on another world—not sure if it was in the Gamma Quadrant or close to Bajor.

I can’t recall many details, other than Bashir being extremely smug and smarmy, but I think the plague had decimated the population and warped their lives to the point that people scheduled their own demise.


IIRC the plague was started by the Dominion. Bashir learned the hard way he couldn't cure it. A good growing experience for him.

[Dexam]

If we're talking historical fiction, I recently watched the first season of La Peste (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5868826/) (The Plague), a Spanish TV series about an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Seville in 1597. Not very apocalyptic, but very interesting none the less.

Here's the premise from Wikipedia: "During an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the magnificent Seville of 1597, Mateo, a former soldier, returns, honouring his word to find and extract a dead friend’s son from the city. Previously, Mateo had been forced to flee the city to save his life, having been sentenced to death by the Inquisition for printing forbidden books. Before he can complete his task, Mateo is arrested by the Inquisitor’s bailiffs, who promise to pardon his life in exchange for solving a series of crimes of diabolic overtones being committed in Seville."

[Kitten Champion]

It occurred to me that The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson could also be construed as an alternative-history post-apocalyptic fiction, from a certain point of view. With the premise hinging on Europe's population being utterly annihilated by the Black Death.

Although the focus of the work is overwhelmingly on how civilization outside of Europe would shape world history with its absence rather than the actual plague, so it depends on where your interests lie.

[gomipile]

It occurred to me that The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson could also be construed as an alternative-history post-apocalyptic fiction, from a certain point of view. With the premise hinging on Europe's population being utterly annihilated by the Black Death.

Although the focus of the work is overwhelmingly on how civilization outside of Europe would shape world history with its absence rather than the actual plague, so it depends on where your interests lie.

That is an excellent point. I read it back in 2003 or so.

I highly recommend to anyone who finds the general discription at all interesting. Some of the middle chapters definitely have the feel of "civilization building" I like in post-post-apocalyptic fiction. Also some solid diplomacy and disaster/war preparation in the chapter set in North America.


The war based chapters also have a fair bit of the apocalyptic fiction struggle in them.


All in all, highly recommended.

[Rakaydos]

The webcomic, "Not a Villain" is set in a post-apocalypse, where the exact nature of the apocalypse is still a matter of some in-universe debate. Not a plague exactly, but a hacker basically skynetted everything, just in time for the Earth's magnetic poles to reverse, combining ecological and technological disaster that is left the surface of the Earth still uninhabitable.
Also, the survivors blamed all programmers for the skynetting, killing them off before they realized how important tech support is when you rely on life support in a sealed city.
(The story mostly takes place inside the major connected network, which is basically set up like the matrix meets second life. Everyone is trying to forget how awful real life is, up until real life forces each of them to pay attention)

[Bohandas]

Has anybody mentioned the plague scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Bring out your dead!

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Bohandas
Has anybody mentioned the plague scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Probably not quite what the OP was looking for…but it does remind me of the classic Ingmar Bergman film, The Seventh Seal, which (among many other things) deals with medieval Europe in the time of the plague.

[J-H]

I just remembered The Apocalypse Blog. http://www.apocalypseblog.com/
Includes zombies, disease, bad rain, etc.

[Bohandas]

Cells At Work is this in microcosm. Sort of.

[Gnoman]

The plot is paper-thin, but the Battletanx games are about the aftermath of a plague that killed nearly all the world's women.

[Knaight]

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse and Wastelands II: More Stories Of The Apocalypse both have plague related apocalypses in a few of the short stories. Anthologies being what they are I couldn't tell you exactly which. I assume the same holds for Wastelands: The New Apocalypse​, but don't know. All are edited by John Joseph Adams.