Pennington takes selections from the Prophecies of Nostradamus, sequencing then into a rough narrative of the rise of a fascist Antichrist and the end of days, magnificently illustrated in his inimitable fashion to create a febrile vision of the apocalypse.

The book is a beautiful, album-sized collection of artworks, often taking the form of surreal visions reminiscent of St John's Book of Revelations. Symbolic, oblique, by turns nightmarish and dreamlike. ( )