The FervorBy: Alma Katsu "Alma Katsu is the reigning queen of literary historical horror." An NPR Book of the Year 1944: As World War II rages on, a mysterious, deadly fervor spreads across America, transforming people into monstrous aggressors, each provoked into fits of unthinkable barbarity. It's a contagion that, according to Meiko Briggs, might have dark, otherwordly underpinnings. But Meiko and her daughter, Aiko, have been forced into an internment camp