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Preliminary Material -- The End of the World as We Know It: End of Time Prophecies in Shirley Jackson's The Sundial -- Revaluation of Values: Thoughts on Bion and The Rapture /Nancy Billias -- Thinking Apocalypse /Joseph P. Lawrence -- Apocalyptic Fantasy in American Film /Charles W. Nuckolls -- Falling Men: Images of the Falling Human in Art and Photography /Winfried Gerling -- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Visual Expressions of Burial As Loss Of Teleology /Elfriede Dreyer -- The Post-Apocalyptic Chronotope /Petter Skult -- Drowning Towers: An Antipodean Apocalypse /Andrew Milner -- Gendering Apocalypse, Selling (In)Security and Performing Consumption Securing in I Am Legend /Glen Donnar -- Doomtown, Australia: Nuclear Apocalypse and the Urban Imagination /Robin Gerster -- Apocalypse When? Time and Symbolism as Components of Apocalyptic Situations /Sheila C. Bibb -- The Sibylline Oracles and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra: A Case Study for Apocalypse as a Venue for Political Power and Resistance in the Late Roman Empire /Cynthia Finlayson -- From King Phillip's War to the Mayan Apocalypse: Native American and Western Visions of End Times /Michael E. Harkin -- Regarding the Signs of the Times: Dispensationalist Spirituality and Prophecy Interpretation in Gilded Age America /Daved Anthony Schmidt -- England's Race Suicide and the Eugenic Apocalypse of Teilhard de Chardin /Timothy J. Sutton -- Viral Apocalypses: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario /Meike Wolf.