Profound thanks to the people who did the real work, and many thanks also to the anonymous folks whose photos I have appropriated from the web:

Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium

Oxford University Press, 1970


David Janssen and Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, Soft Skull Press, Berkeley, 2009


Joel Levy, The Doomsday Book, Scenarios for the End of the World,

Vision Paperbacks, London, 2005


Eugen Weber, Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millenial Beliefs Through the Ages,

Harvard U. Press, 1999


Richard Abanes, End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon?, Four Walls Eight Windows, NY, 1998


NY Times Magazine, December 27, 1998,  “Apocalypse Now. No, Really. Now!”

A coast-to-coast guide to America's millennial Chicken Littles


Clay Farris Naff , The Huffington Post, “The End of Times: Do Scientists and Fundamentalists Concur?”


Scientific American (special issue), “the end. or is it?”, September, 2010


Altucher & Sease, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, Harper Business,  2011



Loren Madsen   lmadsen@gmail.com

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