Good old apocalypse: it’s always there when we need it, ready to give shape to our baggy existential crises. As the critic Frank Kermode once wrote, the end times are a “concord-fiction,” an event ...

When we speak in theological terms about a cataclysmic event in our lives, we might turn to the language of apocalypse, that particular kind of unveiling that manifests an overwhelming awareness of a ...

Do you ever wake up wishing the world would just stop turning? No more bills? No more taxes? No more political nightmare news? Blissful oblivion and post-apocalyptic peace? While I can’t end the world ...

Although Stephen King’s The Long Walk and The Running Man are both due to be released later in 2025, the author’s best post-apocalyptic dystopian novel is an unrelated book, The Stand. Among Stephen ...

“1533 – Dragons over Bohemia” (all images from “The Book of Miracles,” courtesy Taschen) In 1533, hundreds of dragons were reported to darken the skies over Bohemia, following a 1506 sighting of a ...

I love Zombie things. I don't know what the fascination is with them. It came on suddenly about 5 years ago, but it hasn't let up. I have all the Romero zombie flicks, and in certain cases, the shitty ...