Saturday 6 September 2008

Welcome to the End of the World ...

Or so people would have you believe.

Ever since man has had language with which to speak, he has been plagued by the doomsayer, the predictor, the one who claims to know. And they have all said the same thing: the end is nigh ...

And yet here we still are – because for every prediction of imminent doom, a sigh of relief or grunt of disappointment has followed.

You’d think they’d stop, that they’d learn their lesson and realise the unknowable is just that. Yet, bloodied but unbowed, the doomsayers gleefully continue their task of distributing dire warnings of impending oblivion to any who will listen.

So who do you turn to if you want a guide through this cacophony of cataclysm, this wealth of world-ending wisdom?

Well, welcome to the official magazine of the apocalypse, the chronicle of end times, the anthology of Armageddons, the depository of doom, the collection of catastrophe, the encyclopaedia of eschatology …

THE END IS NIGH!

Each issue we examine the predictions, the facts, the figures, the myths and the magic of the end of the world. From Biblical tales of the final battle, to modern fears of asteroid strike, lethal plague or nuclear holocaust, THE END IS NIGH is your guide through the Final Days …

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