Apocalypse Culture II is an anthology of the fringe and transgressive edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House in 2000. A sequel to his previous work, Apocalypse Culture, it continues the probing of societal taboos, with special attention given to conspiracy theories, neo-Nazism, child pornography, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control.
Entries included are authored by, among others, John Hinckley Jr., Michael Moynihan, Crispin Glover, and Peter Sotos. The book's final entry is an essay by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The book was published in a combined edition with its predecessor in Russia in 2006, where it was banned as "drug propaganda" due to the entry on ketamine. Several reviewers found the volume disturbing, but complimented it for what it was.
Background and publication history
Apocalypse Culture II was edited by Adam Parfrey, the sequel to the 1987 anthology volume Apocalypse Culture. Parfey's works often focused on the bizarre. Talking to Willamette Week, Parfrey said of the book that:
While promoting the book and asked on his feelings on it by the Los Angeles Times, he said: "Upsetting people is a beautiful thing." Parfrey had problems finding a printer for the book due to some of the illustrations in the pedophilia sections. He found a printer that would take on the job, but only if six images were removed. Parfrey agreed, and instead put the six removed images on his website.
Contents
Parfrey clarifies, in the preface, that the collection is not a "manifesto or a smorgasbord of personal fetishes or beliefs", but that "the book was compiled to examine far-reaching and extreme societal tendrils." It is dedicated to "the memory of Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880-1940." It opens with quotations from Wilhelm Stekel's Sadism and Masochism and Woodrow Parfrey's (the editor's father) death scene as a mass murderer in the Naked City episode, "Burst of Passion". Other topics include Jews for Hitler, conspiracy theories and satanic ritual abuse. The book is illustrated. and Peter Sotos, among others.
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| "Holding Onto Jesus' Feet" || David Sereda
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| "Jesus/Lucifer Santa/Satan? The Apocalyptic Parables Of Norbert H. Kox"
| Adam Parfrey || Norbert H. Kox, Nubian Hebrews
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| "The Bleeder"
| Adam Parfrey, Giorgio Bongiovanni
| Stigmata
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| "David and Hitler go to the planet Mars"
| David
| Semi-Retardation
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| "What Is It?" || Crispin Hellion Glover
| Glover debates the pros and cons of murdering Steven Spielberg.