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Apocalypse Culture is a book edited by Adam Parfrey (1). It is a collection of texts showcasing a variety of examples of, and reactions to, eschatological madness, extreme perversion, " conspiracy theories", and aesthetic nihilism.

First published by Amok Press in 1987 (BooksEnthsiast.com), an Expanded & Revised Edition was published by Feral House (2) in 1990 (BooksEnthsiast.com).

It features a cover painting by Joe Coleman.

1 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 the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Title Author Subjects
Latter-Day Lycanthropy: Battling for the Feral Soul of Man Adam Parfrey Lycanthropy
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 BurkeEdmund Burke ( January 12, 1729— July 9, 1797) was an Irish philosopher, Whig politician and statesman, remembered principally for his criticism of the French Revolution and his discussion of "the sublime. He was a founder of the Annual Register and is re, Savitri DeviSavitri Devi ( September 30, 1905 October 22, 1982) was a Franco- Greek woman who became enamored with Hinduism and National Socialism, linking the Aryan invasion theory' to Adolf Hitler, and proclaiming him an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Her writings, Boyd RiceBoyd Rice (born 1955) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name NON, and most notorious for his Social Darwinistic proclamations (often receiving the accusation of N, John Whiteside Parsons , Robert de Grimston , and P.T. Barnum
Frank Talk from a Psychopath Adam Parfrey Aspiring Mass murderA mass murder massacre involves the murder of large numbers of people either by a state or an individual. This should not be confused with serial killers, who usually tend to kill one person (or perhaps two) at a time. The largest mass killings in historyer
G.G. AllinGG Allin (born 29 August 1956, died 28 June 1993) was born Jesus Christ Allin and was nicknamed GG when his brother could not pronounce his name. His mother renamed him Kevin Michael Allin shortly before he began school. He was a punk rock singer and band: Portrait of the Enemy Adam Parfrey
Aesthetic Terrorism Adam Parfrey
Interview with Peter SotosPeter Sotos ( 1960 is a Chicago, USA-born writer who has contributed an unprecedented examination of the peculiar motivations of sadistic sexual criminals. His works are often cited as conveying an uncanny understanding of myriad aspects of pornography. of Pure Paul Lemos 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
The Case Against Art John Zerzan
Man a Machine David Paul
Let's Do Justice for our Comrade P-38 Red Brigades
Long Live Death! The Abraxas Foundation Quotations from Heraclitus, Jonathan Swift, Charles IX, 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, Ragnar Redbeard, Walt Whitman, and P. Luftig
The Muslim Program Elijah Muhammad from The Fall of America
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: A 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 Michael Jackson
Satori & Pornography: Canonization through Degradation Christian Shapiro
Eugenics: The Orphaned Science Adam Parfrey Quotations from 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 Hill Johnson , H.A. Schultz , Albert Edward Wiggam , Adolf Hitler, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bertrand Russel, 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 and Asiba Tupahache
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 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 UFOs: 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 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,
Meditations on the Atom and Time: An Attempt to Define the Imagery of War and Death in the Late Twentieth Century Dennis Stillings 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 (3), was published in 2000 (BooksEnthsiast.com).



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