
Winged Death is a classic American horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft that begins: The Orange Hotel stands in High Street near the railway station in Bloemfontein, South Africa. On Sunday, January 24, 1932, four men sat shivering from terror in a room on its third floor.

In the fevered jungles of Africa, some plagues aren't viral--they're supernatural. Dr. Arthur Phillips, a European scientist working in the malaria-ridden Belgian Congo, is obsessed with finding a biological solution to the deadly disease. His assistant,...