What do John of Patmos, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero have in common? Each is responsible for an apocalypse. Stories about the world ending have been around almost as long as written literature — ...

Masked people standing six feet apart. Empty shelves in the supermarket. No children in sight outside the school during recess. So what, exactly, does pandemic fiction offer readers? My doctoral ...

Canadian writer and artist Michael D. O’Brien has penned 28 books in his career, but he may be best known for his apocalyptic-themed novel, Father Elijah, one of six volumes in his Children of the ...

Local author Daniel Humphreys is making a name for himself in apocalyptical fiction. Submitted photo As a kid, Columbus resident Daniel Humphreys devoured books, a trait that later developed into ...

THE apocalypse is fertile ground for writers. From the popular fiction of John Wyndham and Stephen King to the work of Pulitzer- and Booker-prize winners like Cormac McCarthy and Margaret Atwood, the ...

“Station Eleven” is a post-apocalyptic drama based on the novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel (written in 2014, filming began in January 2020) about a flu that sweeps through the world ...

Late into the evening of November 8, when it became clear that this nation was about to face the very grim, and suddenly very real, prospect of a Trump presidency, my Facebook feed filled with images ...