The Scarlet Plague by Jack London is a postapocalyptic novel written in 1910 and was originally published as a series in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073 sixty years after the Red Death a devastating plague has wiped out most of humanity. The handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art science and all learning has been lost and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the wor