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As the fall season comes upon us once more it’s time for that spookiest of traditions: the new season of American Horror Story. This year’s season will be about something that’s on everyone’s mind lately: the apocalypse. The end of days is one of those primal fears that’s been with society pretty much ever since there was a society for us to fear the end of. However, despite being a fairly ubiquitous terror and one that you’d think everyone held a stake in the Apocalypse’s place in the horror pantheon is actually pretty limited.
Even setting up this timeline I’ve had to fudge want counts as “horror” a bit to include some stuff that’s more schlocky or was featured a lot in the old horrorathons that channels used to show around Halloween when I was a kid. With that said, I did find enough apocalyptic horror material to create something of a timeline for the genre and how it reflects the anxieties and apocalyptic scenarios of the time.
