After London

A plague sweeps the world in the late 21st century and the narrator watches civilisation empty out around him. Shelley wrote the first great novel about the end of humanity.

Mary Shelley

Sixty years after a pandemic wiped out nearly everyone, an old survivor tries to explain the vanished world to grandchildren who barely believe him. A short, bleak study of how fast knowledge disappears.

Jack London

A traveller returns from the Arctic to find every person on Earth dead, and wanders the empty continents alone. One of the strangest and most vivid last man stories ever written.

M. P. Shiel

Professor Challenger predicts that Earth is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether and gathers his friends to watch the end. Doyle turns a global catastrophe into a tight, unsettling short novel.

Arthur Conan Doyle