Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. Subjects of Feral House books cover a wide area, but include books on the occult, cultural criticism, serial killers, conspiracy theories, political investigations, extreme musical forms, and biographies of obscure historical figures. Because of the extreme nature of many Feral House books, the imprint has been accused^{[citation needed]} of crypto-fascism, ultra-leftism, and extremist anarchism, allegations which Parfrey brushes off, saying, "upsetting people is a beautiful thing. Because it gets people to think beyond their last visit to 7-Eleven. There’s a lot about this world to be upset about." [1] A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Adam Parfrey (born 1957) is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books. ... The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to knowledge of the hidden and often popularly meaning knowledge of the supernatural, as opposed to knowledge of the measurable, usually referred to as science. ... A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... A conspiracy theory attempts to explain the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political, social, or historical events) as a secret, and often deceptive, plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations. ...

The publisher itself describes the books it sells as "pure information", and says the topics of the books are "forbidden".

Feral House was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

A sister imprint to Feral House, Process Media, was founded in 2005 in a collaboration with Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press to publish titles apart from the connotations of Feral House. Process Media is an independent publishing house, the result of a collaboration between Adam Parfrey of Feral House and Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press. ...

Film

Tim Burton’s film Ed Wood was based upon the Feral House title, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.. The Feral House title American Hardcore by Steven Blush has been made into a feature documentary of the same name, to be released by Sony Classics in late 2006. Other Feral House titles have had their film rights optioned, and are currently in development: Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs by Brendan Mullen; Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter, introduction by Robert Anton Wilson; Shit Magnet by Jim Goad; 15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom by Anthony Papa with Jennifer Wynn; Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson. Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. ... Ed Wood can refer to: The movie director Ed Wood, Jr. ... American Hardcore is an L.A. Guns album featuring singer Chris Van Dahl and bassist Johnny Crypt. ... Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (A.K.A. Bobby Pyn) (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) [1] [2] was a punk musician who cofounded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs. ... John Jack Whiteside Parsons (October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons), was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet Corporation. ... It has been suggested that Timothy F.X. Finnegan be merged into this article or section. ... James Thaddeus Jim Goad is an American author and publisher, noted for the controversy surrounding his (now defunct) magazine ANSWER Me!. Jim Goad (left) with an opossum. ...

Awards

• Winner: Best Book of 1989 by Readercon: Apocalypse Culture edited by Adam Parfrey
• Winner: Firecracker Award, Best Music Book of 2000: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind
• Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Pop Culture Book of 2000: Pills-a-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation Into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption by Jim Hogshire
• Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Erotic Book of 2005: SuicideGirls edited by Missy Suicide
• Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Pop Culture Book of 2006: Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey

Apocalypse Culture is a book edited by Adam Parfrey (1). ... Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground is a book by Michael Moynihan & Didrik Søderlind. ... Michael Moynihan, (b. ... The SuicideGirls logo, used on the website and associated merchandise. ...

Titles

A partial list of Feral House titles:

• Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections edited by John Zerzan
• Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board by J. Edward Cornelius
• American Hair metal by Steven Blush
• The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X edited by James Di Eugenio and Lisa Pease
• The Bomb: The Classic Novel of Anarchist Violence by Frank Harris
• Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay
• The Carnivals of Life and Death by James Shelby Downard
• Cholo Style: Homies, Homegirls and La Raza by Reynaldo Berrios
• Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
• Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Sean Tejaratchi and Katherine Dunn
• Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant by Mel Gordon
• Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism edited by Adam Parfrey
• The Gates of Janus: An Analysis of Serial Murder by England's Most Hated Criminal by Ian Brady, with introduction by Colin Wilson
• Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids by Jim Hogshire
• Influencing Minds: A Reader in Quotations by Leonard Roy Frank
• It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey
• Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief by Donna Kossy
• Muerte: Death in Mexican Popular Culture edited by Harvey Bennett
• The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith
• Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno by Joe Petagno
• Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine by Allan MacDonell
• Psychic Dictatorship in the USA by Alex Constantine
• Rollerderby: The Book by Lisa Carver
• Room with a View by Lucy Fur
• Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization by John Zerzan
• Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique by Joseph Lanza and Dennis Penna
• The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity by Mel Gordon
• "Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties," edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey
• Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes by Donna Kossy
• Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks by Sarita Vendetta, Heinrich Hoffmann, Jack Zipes
• Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording by Larry Crane
• Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly by Richard B. Spence
• Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes and Trade Secrets: The Classic Do-it-Yourself Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry by Harry Bennett
• The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance by Paul Spinrad
• Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America by Alex Constantine
• Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon
• War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler
• Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land by Sam Smith
• The X-Rated Bible by Ben Ackerly

John Zerzan John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. ... Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Classic Metal. ... James Shelby Downard (1909-1996) was an American conspiracy theorist whose works, most of which have been published in various anthologies from Feral House, examined percieved occult symbolism and synchronicity behind historical events in the 21st century. ... // Meaning La Raza means literally in Spanish the race. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of hardcore punk, most commonly associated with death metal and crust punk. ... Katherine Dunn is a novelist, journalist, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. ... Hanussen, also known as Erik Jan Hanussen (2 June 1889, Vienna - after 25 March 1933, Berlin), was a mentalist, occultist, and astrologer, active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany. ... Cover of Extreme Islam Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism is a book edited by Adam Parfrey. ... Moors murderer Ian Brady at the time of his arrest in October 1965. ... Colin Henry Wilson (born June 26, 1931) is a prolific British writer. ... Its a Mans World was the title of Chers 1995 album. ... Joseph Daniel Danny Casolaro (June 16, 1947–August 10, 1991) was an American freelance journalist, who was found dead in a bathtub in the Sheraton Inn, Martinsburg, West Virginia, one day after allegedly arranging to meet a source in connection with an investigation he had referred to as the octopus. ... Joe Petagno, (born January 1, 1948 - ), is an artist known principally for creating images used on heavy metal album covers, for bands such as Motörhead, Marduk, Nightshade, and Illdisposed. ... Hustler (June, 1978), perhaps the most controversial issue due to the perceived misogyny of the cover image Larry Flynt Hustler Club on West 52nd Street in New York Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. ... Lisa Crystal Carvers (AKA Lisa Suckdog) writing in Rollerderby, made her one of the most well known writers of the zine boom in the early 90s, along with scribes like Pagan Kennedy. ... Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo (January 14, 1908–September 1, 1934), better known by the name Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, Some Call It Madness, But I Call It Love, and the legend surrounding his early death. ... Anita Berber (1899-1928) was a German dancer, actress, writer, and prostitute during the Weimar period. ... Tape Op began as a photocopied zine about lofi/low budget recording in 1996 by Larry Crane of Jackpot Studios in Portland, Oregon. ... Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC (c. ... vjvjvjvjvjvvjvjjvjvjvjvjvvjvjvjvjvjvjvjvjvjvjvvjjvjvjvjvvjvjvjvjvjvjvj For other uses, see VJ (disambiguation). ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by former U.S. Marine Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, where Butler discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare. ...

External links

• Feral House Publishing
• A dossier on Parfrey and Feral House at Disinfo
• A Reason interview with Parfrey on Feral House
• LA Weekly article on Feral House and Process Media
• National Review article on Feral House and the politics of Adam Parfrey