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• ix • Introduction (The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction) • essay by Michael Kelahan
• 1 • Darkness • (2001) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by Lord Byron]
• 4 • The Last Man • (1826) • short story by Anonymous
• 10 • The Comet • (1839) • short story by S. Austin, Jr.
• 30 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 37 • Earth's Holocaust • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 56 • Into the Sun • [Into the Sun • 1] • (1882) • short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 74 • Plucked from the Burning • [Into the Sun • 2] • (1882) • short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 84 • For the Ahkoond • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 93 • The Crack of Doom • (1895) • novel by Robert Cromie
• 191 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 203 • The Thames Valley Catastrophe • (1897) • short story by Grant Allen
• 221 • A Corner in Lightning • (1898) • short story by George Griffith
• 233 • Within an Ace of the End of the World • (1900) • short story by Robert Barr
• 247 • The Last Days of Earth • (1901) • short story by Geo. C. Wallis (variant of The Last Days of Earth: Being the Story of the Launching of the "Red Sphere") [as by George C. Wallis]
• 259 • The End of the World • (1903) • short story by Simon Newcomb
• 274 • Finis • (1906) • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock
• 286 • The Scarlet Plague • (1912) • novella by Jack London
• 334 • The Last Sunset • (1907) • short story by Edwin A. Start
• 349 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 381 • The Poison Belt • [Professor Challenger • 2] • (1913) • novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 454 • Nyarlathotep • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short fiction by H. P. Lovecraft