ABSTRACT
The Doom of the Great City depicts the recollections of a survivor of an apocalyptic fog in London some years after the event after they have emigrated to New Zealand. The Doom of the City represented part of a new wave of apocalyptic disaster fiction in the late Victorian age seemingly produced by the rapid social and economic changes of the time. A number of other works at this time mined a similar seam. Crowds of men who lived in the suburbs and were employed in the City by day, thronged the stations, a dreadful panic having taken possession of them and altered their usual demeanour. Instead of the accustomed noise, bustle, and brisk hurry, white-faced groups consulted together in whispering tones; and many, utterly demoralized by excess of terror, had gone home to carry off their families to some place of greater safety.
