How prepared are you to survive the zombie apocalypse? No, really: How long would you have before you got to the bottom of your pantry? Would your community struggle not to fall apart, or would your neighbors come together? Imagining the zombie apocalypse is more than just another fun seasonal activity. The collective imagination that surrounds many of our morbid fascinations is actually incredibly useful as a purposeful stress test for harder-to-conceptualize future disasters. Activities like zombie crawls and other apocalyptic imaginings can direct our attention toward vulnerabilities we need to address so that we can do a better job managing our collective risks—even if they don’t include a zombie invasion.