Original Stories

“The Apocalypse Will Be Televised”

Short Story in The Four ???? of the Apocalypse

Edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido & Wrenn Simms

We all know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence riding on pale horses and all that Book-of-Revelation stuff. But why does it have to be four guys on horses?

Why not the Four Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse? The Four Cats of the Apocalypse? The Four PTA Moms of the Apocalypse? The Four Lawyers, Librarians, or Lunch Ladies of the Apocalypse? The Four Drummers, Rock Stars, or Opera Singers of the Apocalypse? Or even the Four Squirrels of the Apocalypse or the Four Emojis of the Apocalypse?

And so we present The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, as twenty-nine brilliant authors give us alternate takes on the legendary quartet of end-of-the-world avatars.

STORIES BY
DANIELLE ACKLEY-McPHAIL • DEREK TYLER ATTICO
ADAM-TROY CASTRO • RUSS COLCHAMIRO
PETER DAVID • RANDEE DAWN
KEITH R.A. DeCANDIDO • MARY FAN
MICHAEL IAN FRIEDMAN • DAVID GERROLD
LAURA ANNE GILMAN • ROBERT GREENBERGER
GERARD HOUARNER • GORDON LINZNER
JONATHAN MABERRY • JAMES D. MACDONALD
DAVID MACK • MEGAN MACKIE
GAIL. Z. MARTIN • SEANAN McGUIRE
JODY LYNN NYE • AARON ROSENBERG
JENIFER PURCELL ROSENBERG • HILDY SILVERMAN
WRENN SIMMS • PATRICK THOMAS
MICHAEL A. VENTRELLA
DAYTON WARD & KEVIN DILMORE

COVER ILLUSTRATION BY
J. K. Woodward