In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

In one novel with this adjective in the title, The Marshal is stricken with the title illness and not cured by Dr. Galen, while another sees Arabella March face off with Adam Salton, who uses dynamite to destroy the title creature. In addition to a Karel Capek novel about a plague of this type, and Bram Stoker's The Lair of the [this] Worm, this color describes the jacket of a sailor on the Neversink in a Melville work and a woman in a (*) Wilkie Collins novel, as well as titling a novel about Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies. For ten points, identify this color which accompanies "Noise" in the title of a Don DeLillo work, the color of a man whose burden was discussed by Rudyard Kipling.
Literature