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• xiii • Introduction (The Apocalypse Reader) • essay by Justin Taylor
• 1 • Nyarlathotep • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short fiction by H. P. Lovecraft
• 5 • The Apocalypse Commentary of Bob Paisner • short story by Rick Moody
• 27 • Sweethearts • short story by Stacey Levine
• 31 • Fraise, Menthe, et Poivre 1978 • short story by Jared Hohl
• 43 • What Is It When God Speaks? • short story by Diane Williams
• 45 • Kraftmark • short story by Matthew Derby
• 58 • The Hook • short story by Shelley Jackson
• 67 • Sixteen Small Apocalypses • short story by Lucy Corin
• 78 • The Last Man • short story by Adam Nemett
• 82 • Earth's Holocaust • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 102 • I Always Go to Particular Places • short story by Gary Lutz and Deb Olin Unferth
• 106 • An Accounting • (2006) • short story by Brian Evenson
• 118 • Square of the Sun • short story by Robert Bradley
• 123 • The End • short story by Josip Novakovich
• 143 • Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time • (1979) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 148 • Think Warm Thoughts • short story by Allison Whittenberg
• 149 • The Ash Gray Proclamation • short story by Dennis Cooper
• 177 • Pole Shift • short story by Justin Taylor
• 179 • Miss Kansas on Judgment Day • short story by Kelly Link (variant of Miss Kansas on Judgement Day 1999)
• 187 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 198 •
  When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼^?When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 1/4
  • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 204 • I Am 'I Don't Know What I Am' and You Are Afraid of Me and So Am I • short story by Tao Lin
• 206 • The Escape—A Tale of 1755 • short story by Grace Aguilar
• 231 • So We Are Very Concerned • short story by Elliot David
• 233 • Gigantic • (1998) • short story by Steve Aylett
• 243 • The End of the Future • short story by Colette Phair
• 254 • Crossing into Cambodia • (1979) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 272 • '80s Lilies • short story by Terese Svoboda
• 276 • These Zombies Are Not a Metaphor • short story by Jeff Goldberg
• 279 • The Rapid Advance of Sorrow • (2002) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 286 • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 292 • Apoca ca lyp se: A Dip tych • (2007) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 300 • After All • (2002) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 307 • Save Me from the Pious and the Vengeful • short story by Lynne Tillman
• 310 • Contributors (The Apocalypse Reader) • essay by uncredited