Quenby finds terror and solace in the fangs of her house pets.

Who are you, and why should I care?

I’m Robert Brockway, and my mom says I’m special.

Not good enough.

Okay, I’m an editor and columnist for Cracked.com, and I wrote a book called Everything is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants you Dead. So I guess you should care because the title of my book is basically threatening you and everybody you love.

So you’ve done what, collected some statistics on death? Compiled the weirdest ways people died? What’s interesting about this?

Well no, this is all about the apocalypse. The end of life on Earth. The real ways humanity nearly went extinct, the most likely ways it might still, the more fantastical ways it could in the near future, and so on.

In the short stories of Paul Tremblay, sometimes the apocalypse is a whisper, not a bang.

Rigorous statistical analysis of the zombie infestation suggests the odds are not stacked in your favour.

Joe Daly takes on our fascination with our own extinction.

How do you survive in a Post-Apocalyptic world when you have no skills? What if it does all end in 2012? Slade Ham has a game plan, just in case the Mayans were right.

Ethical concerns over cloning and sexual robotics need not worry the righteous too terribly, not so much as our slowly shrinking ability to feel truth and honor, life and living, compassion not rooted in control or diffidence, of turning selves into spiritual clones and pop culture probots while religious zombie robots long to eat our [...]

Zoe Brock sheds her skin in the talcum powder dust of Black Rock City and discovers beauty and joy underneath.