chapotraphouse

In my view it's cause many of them start after the fun and interesting bits are over, so all you're left with are vague implications and a depopulated world, which negates the stakes of "Apocalypse" and renders the story down into inter-personnel soap opera drama, but with dirty clothes

So many stories accidentally kill their own settings before the narrative even starts, they try to build a haunted house but end up with a monotone tomb