Apocalypse Culture, or just Apocalypse, is an anthology of the fringe and transgressive edited by Adam Parfrey and first published by his publishing house Amok Press in 1987. Three years later, it was republished in an expanded and revised edition by Parfrey's second publishing house, Feral House. The book, named after Parfrey's fringe cultural scene, defines itself as "an exhaustive tour through the nether regions of today's psychotic brainscape"; it contains writings from, among others, anarchist Hakim Bey and journalist Thomas McEvilley, as well as avowed neo-Nazis, Satanists, pedophiles, necrophiles, and writing from Parfrey himself.

Though controversial, the book was popular with its audience and sold well, reportedly having sold at least 100,000 copies by 2010. The expanded edition contains largely different content. It was a success for Parfrey, his earliest book to achieve this kind of success, and became a cult classic in some circles. The book was banned in Russia in 2006. It was followed by a sequel, Apocalypse Culture II, in 2000.

Background Adam Parfrey was an American writer, editor, and publisher known for his publication of outsider works. He was the creator of the publishing house Amok Press and its successor Feral House. Seattle Weekly described him in 2010 as "one of the nation's most provocative publishers". Many of the works he published were extremely controversial, and he had connections to some neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

The title of the anthology, "apocalypse culture", is what Parfrey dubbed his fringe cultural scene. "Apocalypse culture" has been described by Mark Harrison as "a literary and cultural milieu for those fascinated with eschatology, or the study of last things", including discussions of, among other topics, mind control, paraphilia, and fascism.

Publication history It was first published by Parfrey's publisher Amok Press in 1987. An expanded and revised edition was published in Port Townsend in 1990 by Feral House, a publisher he founded after the publication of the first edition.

The book was reported to have sold 100,000 copies by 2010, and was one of Parfrey's most successful books. It was Parfey's earliest book to achieve fame. A sequel, Apocalypse Culture II, was published by Feral House in 2000.

In 2006, it and its sequel were translated into Russian in 2006 and published combined as one volume by the Russian counterculture publisher Ultra.Kultura as . The book was afterwards banned in Russia as "drug propaganda" (a single entry in the sequel is about ketamine) and all copies were confiscated.

Contents The book, an anthology volume, defines itself as "an exhaustive tour through the nether regions of today’s psychotic brainscape". The book begins with a blurb by J. G. Ballard, who calls the book a collection of the "terminal documents of the twentieth century". Following that is a quote from Werner Herzog: "There is nothing more terrifying than stupidity". It focuses on fringe and transgressive behavior, including socially and sexually. Parfrey notes in an introduction that "The reader of Apocalypse Culture will soon begin to notice a preponderance of materials from individuals who have the audacity to consider themselves their own best authority, in repudiation or ignorance of the orthodoxy factories of Church, University, or State." The contents of the anthology are similar to Exit, a prior magazine created by Parfrey. The 1990 edition has much new content and also lacks much of the content of the 1987 edition. Both editions are illustrated and contain the short biographies on and the contact information of the writers included, when available.Apocalypse Culture (1987) & Apocalypse Culture (1990)

Chapters include interviews with Peter Sotos, the creator of the serial killer and pro-pedophile zine Pure, and another interview with necrophiliac Karen Greenlee. Several entries are written by Parfrey himself, discussing, among other topics, self-castration and the modern aesthetic being terroristic in nature. There is a large amount of neo-Nazi material in the book. It includes flyers from neo-Nazi James Mason, later the author of Siege, a selection from Adolf Hitler, Savitri Devi's The Lightning and the Sun, and Holocaust denier Michael A. Hoffman II.

1987 version + Chapter list Section Title Author Subjects/Details"Prelude"Adam Parfrey Apocalypse Theologies"Latter-Day Lycanthropy: Battling for the Feral Soul of Man"Adam ParfreyLycanthropy"The Unrepentant Necrophile: An Interview with Karen Greenlee"Jim MortonInterview with the necrophiliac Karen Greenlee."Infernal Texts"VariousSelections from the works of Mel Lyman, Louis Wolfson, Dan Burros, Edmund Burke, Savitri Devi's The Lightning and the Sun, Genesis P-Orridge"The Time of The End Is Now: Texts from The Process"Boyd RiceNot in revised edition."Opiates, Brainwashing, and Fasting: A Physiological Understanding of the Oracular Process"Tim O'NeillNot in revised edition."The Disciples of Flesh"Tim O'NeillNot in revised edition."The Last Defense of LSD"Joseph LanzNot in revised edition."Psychois in Illumination: LSD's Internalized Imperium"Not in revised edition."A New Dawn Has Come..."Adolf HitlerNot in revised edition."Instructions for the Kali-Yuga"Hakim BeyKali Apocalypse Art"Schizophrenic Responses to a Mad World: Love, Lithium, and the Loot of Lima"James Anubis Van CleveSchizophrenia"A Metaphysics of Disaster: The Spurt of Blood As Revelation"Elinor FuchsNot in revised edition."Art in the Dark"Thomas McEvilleyHermann Nitsch"Body Play"Fakir MusafarBody modification"Fakir Musafar Interview"Kristine Ambrosia and Joseph Lanza"Interview with Peter Sotos of Pure"Paul LemosAn interview with Peter Sotos, the creator of the pro-pedophile and serial killer zine Pure."Aesthetic Terrorism"Adam Parfrey"The Case Against Art"John Zerzan Apocalypse Science"Every Science is a Mutilated Octopus"Charles FortQuotations collected by Joseph Lanz and Michael A. Hoffman II"From Orgasm to UFOs: Wilhelm Reich's Contact With Space"Adam ParfreyOrgone"The Cosmic Pulse of Life"Trevor James ConstableWilhelm Reich"Eugenics: The Orphaned Science"Adam ParfreyQuotations 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 Russell, Rudolf Frerks, Lothrop Stoddard, A.F. Tregold, Aldous Huxley, Paul R. Ehrlich, Edward O. Wilson, Arthur Jensen, and The New York Times"Nature as Slave: Satanic Technology and the West"Oswald Spengler, Jim BrandonSelections from Brandon's The Rebirth of Pan and Spengler's Man and Technics and Twilight of the Evening Lands"Man A Machine"David Paul"Beyond the Pleasure Principle: towards a body without organs"Gregory WhiteheadNot in revised edition."Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory: Anarchist Meditations on N. Herbert's Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics"Hakim BeyNot in revised edition.Apocalypse Politics"Vagaries of Negation: Data on the Decomposition of Society"John ZerzanNot in revised edition."Let's Do Justice for our Comrade P-38"Red Brigades"The Theology of Nuclear War"Larry KickhamNot in revised edition."From the Mark of the Beast to the Black Messiah Phenomenon: The Chronicles of Ron J. Steele, Investigative Reporter & Prophetic Author"Adam ParfreyBig Brother, false messiahs and Michael Jackson as a possible Black Messiah"The Christian Theory of Occult Conspiracy"Damian 1247 (Adjutor 9 = 2) (actually Tim O'Neill)Parfrey (1990), p. 299"Society for the Eradication of Television Fact Sheet""Alchemical Conspiracy and the Death of the West: An Introduction to James Shelby Downard's King-Kill/33°Michael A. Hoffman IINot in revised edition."King-Kill/33': Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy"James Shelby DownardNot in revised edition.

1990 edition