CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

DARKNESS
Lord Byron

THE LAST MAN
Anonymous

THE COMET
S. Austin, Jr

THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION
Edgar Allan Poe

EARTH’S HOLOCAUST
Nathaniel Hawthorne

INTO THE SUN
Robert Duncan Milne

PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING
Robert Duncan Milne

FOR THE AHKOOND
Ambrose Bierce

THE CRACK OF DOOM
Robert Cromie

THE STAR
H.G. Wells

THE THAMES VALLEY CATASTROPHE
Grant Allen

A CORNER IN LIGHTNING
George Griffith

WITHIN AN ACE OF THE END OF THE WORLD
Robert Barr

THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH
George C. Wallis

THE END OF THE WORLD
Simon Newcomb

FINIS
Frank Lillie Pollock

THE SCARLET PLAGUE
Jack London

THE LAST SUNSET
Edwin A. Start

THE MACHINE STOPS
E.M. Forster

THE POISON BELT
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

NYARLATHOTEP
H.P. Lovecraft