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  • In Black Death (2010, Sony, 15), British horror maestro Christopher Smith (Triangle, Severance) takes us back to 14th-century England (actually 21st-century Germany) for a plague-ridden tale of pestilence, damnation and theo-political strife.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • In choosing from the second wave of the queer underground -- a generation that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s to supplant outrageous spectacle with the ironic and politicized outrage of a plague-ridden generation--Bronson neglects Todd Haynes, Tom Kalin, and David Wojnarowic, while including only Derek Jarman and General Idea.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • In choosing from the second wave of the queer underground -- a generation that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s to supplant outrageous spectacle with the ironic and politicized outrage of a plague-ridden generation--Bronson neglects Todd Haynes, Tom Kalin, and David Wojnarowic, while including only Derek Jarman and General Idea.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic.

    Genesis by Bernard Beckett: Book summary 2010

  • The 200 objects demonstrate how the plague-ridden era was, understandably, preoccupied with death.

    Don't Miss: March 5-11 2011

  • Set in plague-ridden 17th-century London, it looks at class and morality when a sailor and a 12-year-old girl end up quarantined in the home of a well-to-do couple.

    On stage in February Stephanie Merry 2011

  • Walled them both up in the plague-ridden garrison to die.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Walled them both up in the plague-ridden garrison to die.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Walled them both up in the plague-ridden garrison to die.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns.

    History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology | BuyZombie.com 2008

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