Feral Man in a Feral Land : Strange Tales from the Apocalypse Culture

by Parfrey, Adam

• ISBN13: 9781932595451
• ISBN10: 1932595457
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

"Adam Parfrey's notorious, perpetually ahead-of-the-curve company, Feral House its encyclopedic interest in taboo (and conveniently forgotten) cultural phenomena helped define independent media . . . stretching the parameters of acceptable intellectual discussion, and keeping it broad and porous-often by sheer force of will-for almost two decades."-Doug Harvey, LA WeeklyAdam Parfrey created a new kind of ammunition in America's culture wars when he founded Feral House twenty years ago. His books trespassed previously uncharted territories and attracted a different sort of audience. Said J.G. Ballard of Apocalypse Culture: "An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered." Amazon.com described it thusly: "This anthology of doomster essays has become a fixture on the bookshelves of every Tom, Pierced Dick, and Harry."Feral House's excursions in "extreme sociology" have brought Parfrey into contact with gang-bangers, serial killers, militias, conspiracy theorists, and schizophrenics. Along the way, Parfrey received death threats from fundamentalist Christians and black metal Satanists, and was sued by the deputy chief of the FBI for a book on the Oklahoma City Bombing.Over the last twenty years, Feral House books have influenced countless writers, culture-defining websites, publishers, and movies, including Ed Wood, The X-Files, and the forthcoming Lords of Chaos.Feral Man in a Feral Land provides the crazy back story behind an unorthodox publishing company. Included is artwork, kooky correspondence, photographs, illustrations, and strange ideas that never made it to publication.