The Red Plague: London, 1665

Synopsis

London, 1664. Whispers drift in from the continent—rumors of a terrible sickness, blackening the streets of Amsterdam. By spring of 1665, those whispers have become the screams of a city gripped by terror. As the Great Plague descends upon London, a solitary saddler begins a journal—not merely to document the horror, but to understand it. With a steady, haunted hand, he records the unraveling of his world: the denial of officials, the exodus of the wealthy, the surge of false prophets and miracle cures, and the red crosses marking houses of the doomed. When death lingers at every doorstep, and neighbors vanish overnight, he must choose between fleeing for his life or staying to witness the fall of a city—and the resilience of its survivors. Told through the quiet desperation of a man determined to bear witness, *The Red Plague: London, 1665* is a visceral, intimate portrait of courage, faith, and the fragility of civilization in the face of pestilence.