ABSTRACT
Premillennialist Christian apocalyptic fiction is hotter than burning brimstone. The leaders of this newly popular genre, the 12 Left Behind books, have sold over 62 million copies. 1 Such books follow the outlines of the modern premillennialist ‘end times’ biblical interpretation first popularized by Hal Lindsey in The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970. 2 This end times speculation has benefited from the recent anxieties regarding Y2K and 9/11, and many other examples of the genre have sprung up contemporaneously with the Left Behind books, including novels by Lindsey (Blood Moon ) and Pat Robertson (The End of the Age ).
