Harold Camping is back and so am I.

Saturday’s predicted rapture and judgment day didn’t pan out as Harold Camping predicted, so he reflected upon this initial disappointment and concluded that there was no way his calculations were wrong. Nor were his interpretations wrong. And he didn’t think the Bible was wrong. So therefore judgment day must have happened after all but it was spiritual. WE DIDN’T SEE IT.

That’s right. On Saturday, May 21, we experienced an invisible judgment day, and the end of the world is still scheduled for October 21, 2011.

So in honor of this renewed/revised/redefined prediction, I’m putting Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse back on sale.

While supplies last, you can get signed copies of Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse AND Pocket Guide to the Bible for a total of $10.21, in honor of the coming end of the world.

Shipping is FREE (U.S. only).

And also, in honor of Harold Camping, I will be including an invisible book in this package. It’s called A Brief History of Invisible Fulfilled Prophecies and it will be signed in invisible ink. You won’t be able to see it as this book is available in spiritual format only.*

For good measure, I’ll place a bookmark on page 42 of the Apocalypse book, where you can read about Charles Taze Russell, who first came up with the invisible-fulfillment-of-prophecy strategy when his predicted doomsday didn’t seem to arrive in 1874, as promised.

* Note: I’m joking about the invisible book but the two-for-$10.21 deal is absolutely real. Buy it via PayPal below.

* Update: The sale has ended. Thanks to those of you who are now enjoying your visible and/or spiritual books.

With the rapture less than a week away (in theory), I keep thinking that it would be a shame for the end of days to arrive without people having had the chance to read my book about the end of days, Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse. So, shameless marketing hack that I am, I am taking advantage of our last week on earth by giving you a great deal on the book.

Harold Camping says the Rapture will occur on May 21, 2011. So for just $5.21 (see what I did there?) plus shipping/handling, I’ll give you a SIGNED copy of Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse and, because these are crazy times, a signed copy of Pocket Guide to the Bible.

Two books. Two signatures. For $5.21 (+ $1.79 shipping), which gives you a very biblical total of $7.00. If you bought the same books on Amazon you’d pay upward of $18. Sorry, but this deal is U.S. shipping only. Non-Americans probably won’t be raptured anyway.

Order yours today and just maybe you’ll have it by Saturday. Use the button below to place your order through PayPal.

This is a limited-time offer, for obvious reasons. And also because I only have around 50 copies of the Apocalypse book in my closet. So don’t get let behind and stuff.

{Update: the sale has ended. I’m shutting it down as of 8 am on May 17 because inventory is running low and I want to be able to get the books out by this weekend. Thanks to everyone who made a purchase!}

If you haven’t yet heard the news, the rapture is supposed to happen on May 21, followed by the end of the universe on October 21. That’s the prediction of radio preacher Harold Camping, and all the billboards and vehicles and bus benches advertising that timeline have captured the interest of the media.

Because I’ve fooled the world into believing I’m an expert on the apocalypse, I got asked to write about it for the Washington Post’sOn Faith” website. I wrote about the last time the potential end of the world hit the media this hard. It was in 1988 after Edgar Whisenant predicted the rapture sometime between September 11 and 13 of that year. Right around the time I started 9th grade.

From the piece:

…I spent my summer in a state of dread. Part of it may have been related to my impending entry into the perils of high school, but much of it was Rapture-related. I worried that summer might be my last. I wasn’t ready. I hadn’t yet had a real girlfriend. I hadn’t learned to drive. I had just gotten my braces off. Though I felt terribly guilty admitting it, I didn’t want Jesus to come back. Not yet.

I hope you’ll go read it. First, because I want you to feel sorry for me. Second, because I want you to feel sorry for Camping’s followers, who will be terribly disappointed on May 22.

Probably.