A collection of myths about the end of the world or the end of humanity (which are not necessarily the same thing). This book of course includes the well-known end-of-the-world stories of the Bible (a deluge and the Apocalypse), the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh (a deluge again), and the long Norse tale of Ragnarok (too complex to relate here), but it also contains myths from Native American cultures, Gabon, Polynesia, Lithuania, and many more. The collection is introduced by Schipper.