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'''''Apocalypse Culture''''' is a book edited by [[Adam Parfrey]]. It is a collection of texts showcasing a variety of examples of, and reactions to, [[Eschatology|eschatological]] [[Insanity|madness]], extreme [[perversion]], "[[conspiracy theories]]", and [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] [[nihilism]].
First published by [[Amok Press]] in [[1987]] (ISBN 0-941693-02-3), an ''Expanded & Revised Edition'' was published by [[Feral House]] ([http://www.feralhouse.com/apocalypseculture.html 2]) in [[1990]] as a paperback (ISBN 0-922915-05-9).
It features a cover painting by [[Joe Coleman]].
==Contents (to the ''Expanded & Revised Edition'')==
The book is divided into two sections. "Apocalypse Theologies" (which "surveys the thanatoxic symptoms") and "The Invisible War" (which "pieces together the psychopolitical consequences of the ''sub rosa'' convergences behind apocalypse culture"). It is dedicated to [[Aimee Semple McPherson]] and opens with a quote from [[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam|the Rubáiyát]] of [[Omar Khayyám]].
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Author !! Subjects
|-
| Latter-Day [[Lycanthropy]]: Battling for the Feral Soul of Man
| [[Adam Parfrey]] || [[Lycanthropy]]
|-
| [http://www.nokilli.com/sacto/karen-greenlee.htm The Unrepentant Necrophile]: An Interview with [[Karen Greenlee]]
| [[Jim Morton]] || [[Necrophilia]]
|-
| Infernal Texts ||
| Selections from the works of [[Mel Lyman]], [[Louis Wolfson]], [[Dan Burros]], [[Edmund Burke]], [[Savitri Devi]], [[Boyd Rice]], [[John Whiteside Parsons]], [[Robert de Grimston]], and [[P.T. Barnum]]
|-
| Frank Talk from a Psychopath || [[Adam Parfrey]]
| Aspiring [[Mass murder]]er
|-
| [[GG Allin|G.G. Allin]]: Portrait of the Enemy
| [[Adam Parfrey]] ||
|-
| Aesthetic Terrorism || [[Adam Parfrey]]
|
|-
| Interview with [[Peter Sotos]] of ''Pure''
| [[Paul Lemos]] || [[Sadism and Masochism|Sadism]]
|-
| Schizophrenic Responses to a Mad World: Love, Lithium, and the Loot of Lima
| [[James Anubis Van Cleve]] || [[Schizophrenia]]
|-
| Art in the Dark || [[Thomas McEvilley]]
| [[Hermann Nitsch]]
|-
| Instructions for the [[Kali-Yuga]] || [[Hakim Bey]]
| [[Kali]]
|-
| Surgeons and Gluttons in the House of Flesh: Notes on the Hidden Unity between the Additive and Subtractive Festishes
| [[Tim O'Neill]] ||
|-
| Cut it Off: A Case for Self-[[Castration]]
| [[Adam Parfrey]] ||
|-
| Body Play || [[Fakir Musafar]] || [[Body modification]]
|-
| Fakir Musafar Interview
| [[Kristine Ambrosia]] and [[Joseph Lanza]]
|
|-
| [http://www.primitivism.com/case-art.htm The Case Against Art]
| [[John Zerzan]] ||
|-
| Man a Machine || [[David Paul]] ||
|-
| Let's Do Justice for our Comrade [[Walther P38|P-38]]
| [[Red Brigades]] ||
|-
| Long Live Death! || The [[Abraxas Foundation]]
| Quotations from [[Heraclitus]], [[Jonathan Swift]], [[Charles IX]], [[Wilfred Owen|Owen]], [[Chidiock Tichborne]], [[Yukio Mishima]], [[Feodor Dostoevsky]], [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Robert Jay Mathews]], [[Rudolf von Sebottendorff]], [[Vladimir Bukovsky]], [[Richard Wagner]], [[Jack London]], the [[Richard Strauss]] [[opera]] ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'', [[Ragnar Redbeard]], [[Walt Whitman]], and [[P. Luftig]]
|-
| [http://www.noi.org/program.html The Muslim Program]
| [[Elijah Muhammad]] || from ''[[The Fall of America]]''
|-
| [http://www.trussel.com/lyman/whit2.htm Mel Lyman: God's Own Story]
| [[John Aes-Nihil]] || [[Mel Lyman]]
|-
| The Process: A Personal Reminiscence
| [[R. N. Taylor]]
| [[Process Church of the Final Judgement]], [[Robert de Grimston]]
|-
| Sorcerer of Apocalypse: An Introduction to [[John Whiteside Parsons]]
| [[Michael Staley]] ||
|-
| The Invisible War || [[Anton Szandor LaVey]]
| [[Weather control]], [[Black noise]], [[White noise]], [[Microwave Radiation]]
|-
| The Cereal Box Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind
| [[Michelle Handelman]] and [[Monte Cazazza]] ||
|-
| [[Society for the Eradication of Television]] Fact Sheet
| ||
|-
| From the Mark of the Beast to the Black Messiah Phenomenon: The Chronicles of [[Ron J. Steele]], Investigative Reporter & Prophetic Author
| [[Adam Parfrey]]
| [[Authoritarianism|Big Brother]], false [[messiah]]s and [[Michael Jackson]] as a possible Black Messiah
|-
| [[Satori]] & [[Pornography]]: Canonization through Degradation
| [[Christian Shapiro]] ||
|-
| [[Eugenics]]: The Orphaned Science || [[Adam Parfrey]]
| Quotations from [[Book of Numbers|Numbers]], [[Plato]], [[Thomas Malthus]], Count [[Arthur de Gobineau]], Sir [[Francis Galton]], [[Charles Darwin]], [[Alfred Russel Wallace]], [[Herbert Spencer]], Dr. [[Alexander Graham Bell]], [[Houston Stewart Chamberlain]], [[Havelock Ellis]], [[Madison Grant]], [[Paul Popenoe]] & [[Roswell Johnson|Roswell Hill Johnson]], [[H.A. Schultz]], [[Albert Edward Wiggam]], [[Adolf Hitler]], Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Rudolf Frerks]], [[Lothrop Stoddard]], [[A.F. Tregold]], [[Aldous Huxley]], [[Paul Ehrlich]], [[Edward O. Wilson]], [[Arthur Jensen]], and ''[[The New York Times]]''
|-
| How to Kill: Are Afrikan People Subjects of a Genocidal Plot?
| [[Harry Allen]]
| Interview with [[Jack White (Journalist)|Jack White]] and [[Asiba Tupahache]]
|-
| [http://imperium.lenin.ru/~kaledin/tmp/agricltr.txt Agriculture: Demon Engine of Civilization]
| [[John Zerzan]] ||
|-
| Nature as Slave: Satanic Technology and the West
| [[Oswald Spengler]], [[Jim Brandon]]
| Selections from Brandon's ''[[The Rebirth of Pan]]'' and Spengler's ''[[Man and Technics]]'' and ''[[Decline of the West|Twilight of the Evening Lands]]''
|-
| Every Science is a Mutilated Octopus
| [[Charles Fort]]
| Quotations collected by [[Joseph Lanz]] and [[Michael A. Hoffman II]]
|-
| From [[Orgasm]] to [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]]s: [[Wilhelm Reich]]'s Contact With Space
| [[Adam Parfrey]] || [[Orgone]]
|-
| The Cosmic Pulse of Life || [[Trevor James Constable]]
| [[Wilhelm Reich]]
|-
| Who Rules Over Earth?: The Archetype of the World Ruler and the Work of Universal Regeneration
| [[Tim O'Neill]] ||
|-
| The [[Christianity|Christian]] Right, [[Zionism]], and the Coming of the Penteholocaust
| [[Gregory Krupey]]
| Rev. [[Jerry Falwell]], Rev. [[James Robison]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Hal Lindsey]], [[Judgement Day]], [[End times]], the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]], Rabbi [[Moshe Levinger]], the [[Temple Mount]], [[Jesse Helms]], the [[Jerusalem Temple Foundation]],
|-
| A History of Vengeance and Assssination in Secret Societies
| [[Tim O'Neill]]
| [[Freemasonry]], [[Illuminati]], [[Hassan-i-Sabah]], the [[Knights Templar]],
|-
| The Call to Chaos: From Adam to Atom By Way of the [[Jornada del Muerto]]
| [[James Shelby Downard]]
| [[Alchemy]], [[Adam Kadmon]], [[Synergism]]
|-
| [[Meditation]]s on the [[Atom]] and [[Time]]: An Attempt to Define the Imagery of [[War]] and [[Death]] in the Late Twentieth Century
| [[Dennis Stillings]]
| [[Nuclear warfare|Nuclear War]], the [[Atomic Bomb]], [[Gnosticism]], The [[Apocatastsis]]
|}
Apocalypse Culture was awarded Best Nonfiction Work of the Year by [[Readercon]] in [[1987]].
A sequel to it, titled [[Apocalypse Culture II]] ([http://feralhouse.com/titles/kulchur/apocalypse_culture_ii.php 3]), was published in [[2000]] (ISBN 0-922915-57-1).
==External links==
* [http://feralhouse.com/titles/kulchur/apocalypse_culture.php ''Apocalypse Culture''] at the publisher's website.
* [http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/apocult.html A site] which uses the same term.
* [http://reason.com/0211/cr.bd.publishing.shtml Parfrey interview]
* [http://www.thestranger.com/2000-10-26/books.html Parfrey interview]
[[Category:Cultural studies books]]
[[Category:1987 books]]
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