The end of the world : an annotated bibliography by Tom McIver (Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 1999). 389p. index 333-389.
A pivotal reference work in contemporary
eschatology, with over 3400 separate entries, ranging from the
Apocalypse of Baruch (late 1st c. AD,
Babylon) to the
Books of the Chilam Balam, or Jaguar Prophet (discovered 1600s,
Yucatan) to Jung-Stillung's
alchemist/
Masonic/
anti-French novel
Das Heimweh (1794 ) all the way up to exhaustive catalogues of
TEOTWAWKI web sites, such as Hope in the End Time (www.dial-a-prophecy.com) or The Prophecy Club (www.prophecyclub.com). McIver has even annotated much of the material, highlighting the 'useful' or unique elements of the material (from a scholarly point of view) though clearly he loses his enthusiasm and patience with hidden
bible code
theories,
Atlantis chronology,
astral projection, alien
Elohim fantasies, distorted
numerology,
New World Order politics,
Creationism and sentences such as "
UFOs represent the space forge of the Lord Jesus Christ preparing for the Second Coming." Sadly, the vast majority of the literature from 1970s onward is dominated by
crypto- fascist Biblical nonsense, but there are still some 1000 items listed in the work which predate the
Industrial Revolution. Needless to say, this is where some of the titles are more interesting, delving into
Illuminatism and
Illuminism, belief that
Napoleon was the Anti-Christ,
Egyptology and
Hollow Earthers, just to name a few. Some of those titles are sweet, proving at least that material like this has always made for popular reading:
- The Kings of the East: An Exposition of the Prophecies, Determining, from Scripture and from History, the Power for Whome
the Mystical Euphrates is Being Dried Up; with an Explanation of Certain Other Prophecies Concerning the Restoration of Israel
(London: Seeley and Burnside, 335p. 1842)
- The Prophetical History of the Reformation; or, The Reformation to be Reform'd; in That Great Reformation; That Is To Be
1697 by Thomas Beverly (London: 1689)
- Two Remarkable Paradoxes: I. That the World was Created in An Instant, and Not in Six Days, and II. That the World at the
Last Day Shall Not be Intirely Consumed By Fire. (London: R. Baldwin, 1691)