Apocalypse Culture

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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, eschatological madness, extreme perversion, "conspiracy theories", and aesthetic nihilism.

First published by Amok Press in 1987 (ISBN 0-941693-02-3), an Expanded & Revised Edition was published by Feral House (2) in 1990 as a paperback (ISBN 0-922915-05-9).

It features a cover painting by Joe Coleman.

[edit] 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 Burke, Savitri Devi, Boyd Rice, John Whiteside Parsons, Robert de Grimston, and P.T. Barnum
Frank Talk from a Psychopath	Adam Parfrey	Aspiring Mass murderer
G.G. Allin: Portrait of the Enemy	Adam Parfrey
Aesthetic Terrorism	Adam Parfrey
Interview with Peter Sotos 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: 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	Big Brother, false messiahs and Michael Jackson as a possible Black Messiah
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