Apocalypse is a Greek word meaning “revelation”, an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling. The apocalypse event may be climatic, astronomical, destructive, medical, or just the end of time. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories tend to follow characters trying to survive a devastated landscape. If the disaster or catastrophe occurs during the course of the story, then the novel is termed apocalyptic. If the event has already happened, it is post-apocalyptic.
One of the reason why we’re drawn to apocalyptic stories is because they capture the way that personal tragedy can feel like the end of the world. Still labeled as a fiction and hopefully stays that way, these stories tend to make the death of billions seem like a fun adventure. While we’re going through tough times during this pandemic, facing those fears through fiction helps us deal with it.
In this collection, we’ve collected 73 free apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic ebooks. A large number of them are online web-serials, meaning that the author has laid out the story gradually over a period of time. Should there be a downloadable ebook link, it should be quite easy to catch. Have a good read!
73 Free Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic Ebooks and Web Serials
- After by Kitt Moss
- Alone by Jason Thornton
- Anathema by Chrysalis
- As They Walk Among Us by William Long aka Weeble
- Awakenings by Erin M. Klitzke
- Bastion: The Last Hope by Rob Osterman
- Children of the Apocalypse by Skyla Dawn Cameron
- Chronos Chronicles by Joan of Acre
- City at World’s End by Edmond Hamilton
- Contrarion by Antonshine
- Corpse Wars by Al Bruno III
- Darkeye by Koryos
- Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
- Dead Too, Rights by Jaeger
- Delta Flight by Michael Hughes
- Don’t Feed The Dark by Scott Scherr
- Dusk: Origins by The Dusk Crew
- Fine Structure by Sam Hughes
- Gargoyle by Stevebot-7
- Godpunk by Billy Higgins
- Hell on Rails by Kirk Allmond
- Hell Paso by j. kelly
- Hollow World by Jonathan Martin
- House of Rats by Peter von Harten
- Kudzu, A Novel by Bernie Mojzes
- Life on the Fringes by Tom Barendse
- Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
- Maelstrom by Peter Watts
- Milgram by mandragons
- New Valenar by Mikhail Bonch-Osmolovskiy
- No Man An Island by G.S. Williams
- Oasis by Bryce Beattie
- Oh God the Rapture Is Burning by DJay32
- Orphic Phantasia by Dary Meredith
- R.E.A.P by Crow
- Ra by Sam Hughes
- Rackham & Crane by Nathan Bruinooge and Phil Chase
- Reports from the Earthview Lounge by Vic Steel
- Ruin by TheLunarFox
- Sam at the End of the World by Michael Cooper
- Short Stories – Dark Speculative Fiction by A. M. Harte
- Skybox by alecbibat
- Spell of Apocalypse by Mayer Alan Brenner
- Station151 by Andy Scearce
- Steal Tomorrow by Ann Pino
- The Apocalypse Blog by Melanie Edmonds
- The Bitter Drop by Evelyn Isherwood
- The Broken Land by steinulfr
- The Broken Prophecy by Thomas Knapp
- The Chrysalis Falls Vigilant by Bryan Swan
- The Cities Eternal by Evan Murdoch & Ben Sousa
- The Crawlspace of Daryl Ingram by Jason Thornton
- The Dance of War by Joseph Vozzo
- The Day the Sun Stopped Shining by Matthew Wood
- The Doctor’s Assistant by Laura Fischer
- The End of Things by Rosey Haze
- The Fall of the House of Kyzer by Nathan Marchand
- The Fifth Defiance by Walter
- The Five Kingdoms by Zachary Tringali
- The Komatsu Wombat and the Fantastical Anticlimax by pixelnyx
- The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Rules Change by John Bahler
- The Secret of Jebediah Vanderhook by Weston Ford
- The Select’s Bodyguard by Nick Hayden
- The Shattered Oracle by SovereignofAshes
- The Sick Land by Jon Hills
- The Soulreaper Chronicles by James Monaghan
- The Turned by Kase Villand
- The Underverse by Carrie Ann Golden
- The Union Creek Journal by ToAsplin
- This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch
- Tortured by V. J. Chambers
- Zombie Glasses by Nimja
