The writer Dean Koontz in 1981 had already predicted the coronavirus pandemic scenario.

Other than Nostradamus. We are now used to the mix between cinema and literature with real everyday life. Apocalyptic scenarios that sooner or later become reality. The book, written in the 1980s, which had foreseen everything about the coronavirus, is becoming viral in these hours: a lethal virus, arrived from China, which left the city of Wuhan, which would have infected the whole world.

Incredible but true, everything was already written. Many coincidences that can be found in the book The Eyes of Darkness, published just forty years ago, 1981, written by Dean Koontz. In which there is talk of a virus called 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed in their RDNA laboratories near the city of Wuhan.

"Wuhan-400 is a perfect weapon," reads the book, because "it affects only humans." In another passage from the same novel, Koonts writes that "around 2020 serious pneumonia will spread all over the world" and that it is "able to resist all known treatments".

To tell the truth, as revealed by the computer blogger, Paolo Attivissimo, the first edition of the book, the original one of 1981 included the same scenarios but, in the middle of the cold war, it was the then Soviet Union and for the forecast the town of Gorki was first outbreak of the pandemic. In fact, the virus is called 'Gorki-400'.

Only in 1996, the blogger always remembers, in the aftermath of the disintegration of the former USSR, the writer Koonts published a new version of his novel in which, in fact, Whuan took the place of Gorki. A bit like what happened when Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel 'The Wreck of the Titan' predicted 'the 1912 Titanic disaster but was actually retouched after the tragedy, where the Titan ship was of lesser size, and the title "Futility".