Do you feel like were living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Heres a small comfort: youre not the first to feel that way. If theres one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, its that history wasnt going to be around for much longer. This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f*cking nigh. Across thousands of years, well meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth.