This essay examines two examples of what could be called ‘apocalyptic ecogothic’, both based on the premise that trees are intelligent and have decided to remove human beings from the earth for the sake of planetary equilibrium: M. Night’s Shyamalan’s The Happening (2008) and the recent graphic novel The End (2018, by Swiss cartoonist Zep). While both texts give nature more agency, intelligence and autonomous consciousness than earlier ecogothic narratives, they also tend to erase racial and gender diversity from their imagined futures. The essay thus concludes that there is a racial unconscious which haunts the apocalypse meme so important to ecological movement and the environmental imagination.