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Feral House
The official Web site for Feral House Publishing and Adam Parfrey, featuring book excerpts, Feral News, interviews and ordering facilities. What are you waiting for?
Disinfo TV: Adam Parfrey: Apocalypse Culture 2000
Dystopia, the Unabomber, Slash Fiction, sex slaves, mind control, the new hermaphrodite, Startsky and Hutch, Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Jack Parsons are all here. Join the party as Adam Parfrey looks back at the apocalypse that happened. RealVideo. Hosted by Richard Metzger. 20 minutes.
The Story George Magazine Didn't Want You To See
An excellent article from Conspire.com's Jonathan Vankin that profiles the major players of modern Conspiriology, including Adam Parfrey. Contends very fairly that Parfrey anticipated, ten years beforehand, the popularity of millennial fads.
Underground Overviews
A succinct but witty review of Adam Parfrey's book Cult Rapture (1995) by Russ Kick. This review is featured in Kick's book Psychotropedia (Pluto Press, 1999).
The Oklahoma City Bombing And The Politics Of Terror
Effectively banned after jury-tampering allegations, you can find David Hoffman's powerful book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror (1998) here as an unpartitioned HTML file.
Apocacide, Apocaholics And Apocalists: A Selective Webography Of Endism
This M/C Reviews article (December 1999) by Jason Ensor is academic in tone, but covers very well the Apocalypse Culture forseen by Adam Parfrey over ten years earlier.
The Noise Brigade
A brief review of S.W.A.T.: Deep Inside A Cop's Mind (1995), a recording co-ordinated by Adam Parfrey.
Disinfo Nation II: Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture (High-Res)
"A special Apocalypse Culture edition of Disinfo Nation curated by the most fearless (and feared) publisher in America, Adam Parfrey of Feral House books. In this extremely insane episode, series host Richard Metzger goes straight to the belly of the beast with segments on shemales, the REALDoll fake woman sex-toy and catches up with self-styled 'super hero' Mr. Awesome, the world's biggest loser. All this and Adam Parfrey live at Disinfo.Con! Apocalypse Now? Or Apocalypse from now on? You'll decide, tonight on Disinfo Nation." RealVideo (High-Res). 1 minute.
Disinfo Nation II: Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture (Low-Res)
"A special Apocalypse Culture edition of Disinfo Nation curated by the most fearless (and feared) publisher in America, Adam Parfrey of Feral House books. In this extremely insane episode, series host Richard Metzger goes straight to the belly of the beast with segments on shemales, the REALDoll fake woman sex-toy and catches up with self-styled 'super hero' Mr. Awesome, the world's biggest loser. All this and Adam Parfrey live at Disinfo.Con! Apocalypse Now? Or Apocalypse from now on? You'll decide, tonight on Disinfo Nation." RealVideo (Low-Res). 1 minute.
Disinfo Nation II: Adam Parfrey and the Cult of the Red Heffer (High-Res)
"Adam Parfrey discusses the Cult of the Red Heffer and the convergence of science and religion which is a signal of the coming apocalypse. Parfrey also covers the project to clone Jesus at the Disinfo.con 2000 in New York." RealVideo (High-Res). 7 minutes.
Disinfo Nation II: Adam Parfrey and the Cult of the Red Heffer (Low-Res)
"Adam Parfrey discusses the Cult of the Red Heffer and the convergence of science and religion which is a signal of the coming apocalypse. Parfrey also covers the project to clone Jesus at the Disinfo.con 2000 in New York." RealVideo (Low-Res). 7 minutes.
Project Megiddo
Archived at Robert Sterling's Konformist Web site, Project Megiddo describes itself as "an FBI strategic assessment of the potential for domestic terrorism in the United States undertaken in anticipation of or response to the arrival of the new millennium." What would have happened if law-enforcement officials had read Adam Parfrey's books instead?
Feral House: Adam Parfrey Interview
Adam Parfrey offers some comments on the transition from Amok Press to Feral House; 'shock value' allegations; and the plans for a record label. Succinct: conveys the hectic schedule of a thriving underground publisher.
Militia Leader Talks: Bo Gritz Interrogated By Adam Parfrery
Written for New Dawn magazine (May-June 1995), this Adam Parfrey of Bo Gritz helped establish Parfrey as a milita 'expert', according to the Washington Post newspaper.
I Never Said That!
This Salon magazine article (January 16, 1998) begins by covering how article profiles distort the interviewee, and then Catherine Seipp reveals that she was one of Adam Parfrey's college girlfriends, turning the article into a personal memoir on the Feral House publisher.
Prince of Darkness
A lengthy and perceptive interview with Adam Parfrey by Scott Timberg for New Times Los Angeles (September 26, 1999), covering many subjects including Amok Press, Anton LaVey, Michael Moynihan, EXIT magazine and Ed Wood. Also features criticism from bigoted University of Denver religious professor Carl A. Raschke and underground publishing icon V. Vale.
Truth Under Fire: David Hoffman's OKC Odyssey
This Eye Magazine article explores the controversy surrounding David Hoffman's book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror (1998), and the allegations of 'grand-jury' tampering.
Incredibly Strange Culture And The End Of The World As We Know It
An academic Marxist/sociological analysis of Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Now (1987) anthology.
Adam Parfrey and Feral House Productions
An Adam Parfrey monologue excerpt from the excellent underground zine Cyber-Psychos AOD. Parfrey talks about EXIT magazine, the book Cult Rapture (1995) and the many controversies surrounding the iconoclastic publisher.
Oklahoma City: Cui Bono?
Featured in Prevailing Winds magazine, this Adam Parfrey-penned article prominently features the indepth and authoritative research contained in Christopher Simpson's book Science of Coercion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) on the early development of Psychological Operations (PSYOP) warfare.
The End Is Near! Adam Parfrey
This Web site is devoted to Dilettante Press and The End Is Near! exhibition. Features an Adam Parfrey photo and essay: "Adam Parfrey has been a mainstay of the cultural underground in America for over a decade. Iconoclastic, revolutionary, insightful, and fearless in his pronouncements, he has become one of the leading figures challenging the mediocrity and conformity of our made-for-TV culture."
Hotwired Renaissance Books: American Pie
This Hotwired book review focuses upon Cult Rapture (1995). The reviewer contends that the book's strength "lies in Parfrey's astute, witty, and uncensored interpretations of strange and controversial subjects," and that Parfrey himself is "often refreshingly impartial and gives his subjects full room to speak for themselves (the "give 'em enough rope" technique)."
Unarius Academy of Science
A summary of the beliefs of the Unarius Academy of Science, a mind-blowing new religious movement, profiled by Adam Parfrey in his book Cult Rapture (1995).
Mark/Space: Adam Parfrey
Very brief Adam Parfrey publishing history and email contact details from the excellent Mark/Space literary Web site project.
Adam Parfrey and That Fin De Siecle Feeling
A brief review of Adam Parfrey's classic books Apocalypse Culture (1987) and 'Cult Rapture' (1995) offers some perceptive comments: "Parfrey obviously does not go along with every loony idea advanced by dissident opinion. As an intelligent and courageous libertarian, however, he looks beyond the old left-right paradigm to identify the creeping authoritarianism of America's ruling clique."
The Militias Are Coming
This Reason Magazine book review of two books on the Militia movement by American Jewish Committee's Kenneth Stern and Southern Poverty Law Center's Morris Dees quotes Adam Parfrey as a militia 'expert' in it opening line, and then ignores his insights, presumably because they were too apocalyptic or 'underground' for this publication. Of peripheral interest: suitable for background research and context.
An Interview With Adam Parfrey
This Voltage zine interview with Adam Parfrey conducted by Da5id covers the writing of Cult Rapture (1995), the Internet, the political economy of the publishing industry, and how conspiracies infect the mass media.
Liberty Booknote: Learning to Gawk
This brief review of Adam Parfrey's Cult Rapture (1995) is interesting for the reviewer's personal reaction.
Sovereignty: The Rise of the Militias
Daniel Junas wrote this article originally for Covert Action Quarterly. This version features commentary by a conspiriologist.
Man's Ruin Records: Adam Parfrey
Features details and cover artwork of A Sordid Evening of Sonic Sorrows (1997), an Adam Parfrey recording project, featuring collaborations with Boyd Rice, Thee Slayer Hippy, Pig Champion and others.
Adam Parfrey and Cult Rapture
A brief review by Andrew Asch of Adam Parfrey's Cult Rapture (1995) offers some background material, including Parfrey's early co-conspiratorial role in the mind-blowing AMOK Dispatch catalogue series.
S.W.A.T.: Deep Inside A Cop's Mind
A review of S.W.A.T.: Deep Inside A Cop's Mind (1995), a debauched and humorous soundtrack dedicated to the next Police State co-ordinated by Adam Parfrey. The recording features a star-studded cast of underground icons.
Stunning Parallels Between OKC & The Rabin Assassination
From the Sightings radio show Web site, a comparison of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the assasination of Yitzhak Rabin, prompted by Adam Parfrey's Feral House. Useful for background research.
A Carnival of the Last Days
This Metroactive review of Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink (Grove/Atlantic, 1999) draws an explicit comparison with Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture (1987) anthology. Dery is more viewed as more detached than Parfrey by critic Richard von Busack.
Apocalyptic Visions
A brief review of The End Is Now exhibition and book, which features Adam Parfrey.
It's The End of the World As We Know It, Again: It Is Written
A brief and useful bibliography of apocalypse-related articles and books, featuring Adam Parfrey.
Yearbook: Adam Parfrey
Contact details, promo quotes and book-cover scans for Adam Parfrey from the Yearbook News Web site. What? No dog-eared school photo?
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