A walk through an American city following an apocalyptic war.

"Up in the sky the war heads whirled, and the thunder of their passing shook the mountain.

Deep in his vaulted sanctuary he sat, godlike and inscrutable, marking neither the sparrow's nor the missle's fall. There was no need to leave his shelter to stare down at the city."

Blood Runs Cold (1961)
Best of Robert Bloch (1977)
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch -- V 2: Bitter Ends (1990)

Comments: This story is filled with Bloch's cynical broadsides agains American culture.