Contains: "Final Blackouts," an Introduction / Harlan Ellison -- The End of the World (1872) / Eugene Mouton -- The Comet (1920) / W. E. B. DuBois -- The Pedestrian (1951) / Ray Bradbury -- No Morning After (1954) / Arthur C. Clarke -- Upon the Dull Earth (1954) / Philip K. Dick -- 2 B R 0 2 B (1962) / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) / Harlan Ellison -- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) / Ursula K. LeGuin -- The Engineer and the Executioner (1976) / Brian M. Stableford -- [The End of the Whole Mess (1986) / Stephen King](https://openlibrary. org/works/OL19650789W/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess) Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back (1992) / Joe R. Lansdale -- Judgment Engine (1995) / Greg Bear -- Automatic (2007) / Erika T. Satifka -- The Black Mould (2011) / Mark Samuels -- The Pretence (2013) /Ramsey Campbell -- Inventory (2013) / Carmen Maria Machado.