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The must-see Source Family documentary opened at IFC this week after a series of amazing events in New York including a night of Source Family home movies, an afternoon of meditation, white magick, and holistic food and numerous Q&A’s with Electricity and Isis Aquarian, original Source members. If you are in New York City, San [...]
We are beginning a new series for our weekly blog in which we sporadically offer guest writings by Process Media and Feral House authors. Here is the first in the series by Feral author Mark Edward. See his book HERE. By Guest Feral Friday Blogger Mark Edward: “Dragoncon 2012 was an absolute blast this year. [...]
It has already been a busy summer here at Feral House and Process Media getting ready for our numerous Fall releases, one of which, we are happy to announce is a print version of the hit web-comic Hipster Hitler. You can see more information and an excerpt below! A few other updates: Skepticality.com did an interview with [...]
by Kenn Thomas The idea for this blog began with the proposition that Republican control of the White House is only two bullets away. Take Obama and Biden down and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, gets the job. For readers who might think the scenario unlikely or even outrageous, the blog would ask that they [...]
The pitch began in 2006 and levitated as the result of viral online videos, word of mouth through yoga classes, and appearances on Oprah. The dissatisfied were open to being sold on the idea of how they could become happy and procure all they ever wanted. The Secret, perhaps the hugest marketing phenomenon of modern [...]
Green Apple, Other Cinema, yes, San Francsco—here we come. Tonight—that is Friday March 29th at 7 pm—I’ll be speaking about the Process Media book co-written with Maja D’Aoust, The Secret Source, and also about Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Inflence In American Society, A Visual Guide (co-written by Craig Heimbichner) in a visually-enhanced presentation. Find further information on [...]
First stop of the Feral House tour takes place at Powell’s Bookstore on West Burnside, Portland on Thursday May 3. Adam Parfrey will give a visually enhanced talk about secret brotherhoods and Ritual America at 7 pm, and Peter Sotos will discuss his time with Jamie Gillis and the production of his collaborative Pure Filth book that just arrived from the [...]
Talk about coincidences. Here’s a few. After Feral House released Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., in 1992, many readers got quite excited. Practically nothing was actually known about Wood’s life; author Rudolph Grey spent more than a decade tracking down the amazing stories, and I helped Rudolph stitch them [...]
We are excited to announce the commencement of our annual winter holiday sale. Buy any two books from Feral House and get a FREE book of your choice! (Book must be of equal or lesser value to the least expensive book). Offer good until January 1, 2011. How to order your free book: 1. Add two [...]
After much anticipation our newest title Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator is HERE! While the book officially drops on July 3rd and is only available for pre-order at Books-A-Million, Consortium Books, Walmart.com, Sam’s Book Club, and Amazon, you can now order the books from Feral House directly and we [...]
Two exciting announcements for this Feral Friday: PSYCHIC BLUES IS NOW ON SALE! Feral House’s newest release comes to you from Mark Edward, a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. In his book Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium he comes clean about his years of exploiting believers and reveals the methods of [...]
As you know, many people believe that December 2012 is The End. The Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t bought into that date, so why should we? The 2012 catalogues for Feral House and Process Media prove that we are optimistic enough to believe that technology will not totally fail, and that people will [...]
The Department of Justice served Apple and a few actual publishers with a suit on eBook price-fixing charges. Here’s the point of view from a small publisher: The “collusion” accusation mystifies us. We’ve always been at the short end of the deal, and told what to do by the big gorillas in the room, Amazon [...]
We are not here in physical form on this planet very long. What do we do and what do we learn while occupying these bodies of ours? In the late ’60s and early ’70s particularly, fellow souls explored the WTF and What Is It?, and often attached themselves to a larger group of explorers for [...]
Echo Park. Sunset Blvd. We spent some of our best days in Los Angeles near there. Now the groovy bookstore Stories has dedicate the month of june to celebrate both Feral House and Process Media. From their storiesla.com website: “For the month of JUNE we’re dedicating a portion of the store to highlight the titles of FERAL [...]
EXCITING NEWS FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND THE MIDWEST! 10/10/12 LITQUAKE EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO “Join Litquake for an extraordinary literary evening with Adam Parfrey, writer, publisher, and proprietor of the Feral House and Process Media imprints. Among his many influential titles are Lords of Chaos, Nightmare of Ecstasy(which became a film by Tim Burton), and the classic Apocalypse Culture, [...]
This is the third year Feral House has participated in Seattle’s Esoteric Book Conference, showcasing “authors, artists, publishers and bookmakers working in the field of esotericism.”
Feral House’s collection of original Funnyman comic storyboards will be going on display for the first time at the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburg. Read more about the Feral House publication Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman here. Read the director of AJM’s introduction here: AJM_Funnyman_Activity_Sheet Read more about the exhibit below! Super Silly! Superman Creators’ Funnyman Fights [...]
My friends, as many of you know, Kristy Athens’ Get Your Pitchfork On! is in the world! This release has come to you from our sister company Process Media and if you are unfamiliar the book gives urbanites the practical tools they need to realize their own dreams of getting away from it all, with the basics of home, farm, [...]
Have you ever noticed that raw foodists are slim and filled with energy? Is this a fact, or a simple coincidence about the type of person drawn to the raw food regime? Why is it that I so rarely hear raw foodies complain of being tired? Are they a cult? The raw food consumers I [...]
Summer is officially in full swing out here at Feral Acres! Last year our Raspberry bush produced multiple pie-loads with left overs to share and this year the sucker is even more fruitful. It is also proving difficult to keep up with all of our lettuces and kale, though this is not the worst problem [...]
The political season is in full swing, and it seems that many people have their blinders, or hoodwinks, on. Partisan hoodwinks. One fellow I know, who at one time created extraordinary videos for an odd group of avant-garde musicans, today persists on repeating Fox-TV / Republican Party talking points on his Facebook page. His videos [...]
Combine the two most hated memes of modern times, and you get “Hipster Hitler,” the delightful online comic that will now appear in book format, and it’s just getting back from the printer. (You’ll be able to purchase Hipster Hitler from the Feral House website weeks before it’s available on Amazon.com.) You can see the [...]
Feral House has been open to publishing unorthodox–some say wacky–”conspiracy theories.” Initially, it didn’t matter so much whether these ideas were always “truth” as much as their ways of stimulating thought and imagination by presenting different perspectives of how the world worked. I Heart Conspiracy Theory because it opens the mind from the usual propaganda [...]
From Latino.foxnews.com: “Juarez is returning to maps featuring attractions for visitors to the U.S.-Mexico border region around El Paso after two years of being excluded due to a wave of drug-related violence.” “‘Ciudad Juarez should never have been excluded from the tourist map of El Paso since it’s our main trade partner and we are all [...]
Just four years ago, when the George W. Bush presidency brought on two wars and endless corruption, Feral House published Thomas H. Naylor’s book, Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire. Although the author and Kirkpatrick Sale, who provided the introduction, were essentially more liberal than not, the point [...]
We just got through reading and absorbing a fascinating new book, Mary‘s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace. Author Peter Janney knows the story first hand, being the son of a leading CIA operative bearing the unusual name Wistar. Photographs reveal that the [...]
Slime. Snail Trails. Mucus by the ton. It makes one wonder. From whence does it all come? How can a single person produce so much of it that it fills multiple shopping bags full of snotty tissues? An acupuncturist once told me that the mucus may not be actually stored in one’s sinuses, but created [...]
The Supremes, that vile collection of the creepy, pubic hair obsessed and mentally challenged have spoken. Obamacare presses forward. The question is this: wtf is Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act? Is it really a program that compels all Americans to fill the mega-profitable buckets of health insurance? It’s damn close. See HERE. The neo-con [...]
For the past couple weeks we have been working with the great designer Sean Tejaratchi on the 2012 catalogues for Feral House and Process Media. A huge question was how to fit all the titles and covers into a 16-page Feral House catalogue and 8-page Process Media catalogue. The answer for the FH catalogue was [...]
Stuff happens. Little did I expect to be asked to write a screenplay about the John F. Kennedy assassination to debut during the upcoming 50th anniversary. My immediate reaction: “That could be a disaster and a bore, and easily ridiculed. I mean, who wants to see JFK again? After sleeping on it, the idea intrigued me. How [...]
A close friend and Feral House author, Nick Johnson, also known as Darin and Nicholas, blew his head off with a shotgun in the afternoon of Wednesday November 28 in West Seattle. He’s the guy with the green hat in the attached photo taken by Jodi Wille in our Port Townsend living room back in [...]
Traveling city to city, alone, or accompanied by Feral House authors Peter Sotos and Joseph Scott Morgan, the recent Ritual America book tour felt like episodes from the 60s Maysles brothers cinema verité masterpiece, Salesman, about the horrifyingly travails of bible salesmen. The main difference is this: Sotos, Morgan and I were not selling expensive King [...]
The backlash has begun. The new Feral House book, Dying for the Truth, consists of new material as well as older but significant posts from the Mexican Drug War blog, Blog Del Narco. This blog is one of the most heavily trafficked in Mexico, and as a result seem to foment a great deal of resentment. Not [...]
We are thrilled to present an excerpt from our sistis imprint Process Media‘s forthcoming title Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden. Chapter 4 which can be found and even downloaded below, contains a wealth of information on planting for high-nutrition food. This excerpt introduces the Moringa, one of the most nutritious [...]
On the day of the death of Christopher Hitchens, who lately became a United States citizen, was the passage of a new law in which any accused American could be jailed for the rest of his or her life without so much as a trial. In his alcohol-laden final decades, the very clever Hitchens, who [...]
Austin, TX, we love you. Yes we do. Filled up the Dobie Theater to its capacity back in ’91 or ’92, and spoke in a stadium mascot uniform. Chicken Little, specifically, since the lecture was about Apocalypse Culture. Frank Kozik did the poster: a Nazi minister with red Shriner clown nose. Twenty years later, we’re [...]
Has it been a decade since Feral House signed up the Jamie Gillis / Peter Sotos collaboration, Pure Filth? Well, yes it has. Power of persuasion convinced me to do this project way back when. And why? Peter Sotos called it a “dogshit” book, and we’ve always wanted to publish dogshit books. It contains transcripts, images [...]
Now that Ritual America has returned from the printer, Feral Friday will in turn focus on our favorite bits of fraternal weirdness these coming weeks. Pictured above is the Los Gatos, CA branch of The Improved Order of the Red Men in 1905… although these caucasians met as “tribes” in “wigwams” and costumed themselves as Indians, and [...]
Don’t forget to come to this amazing Feral/Process event in Austin. There will be a full moon for this one: Adam Parfrey, Jodi Wille, Isis Aquarian & Electricity Aquarian A reading, presentation and discussion about secret societies, cults, Father Yod, The Source Family and YaHoWa13, The Law of Attraction, sex magic and much more… Thursday, [...]
Our newest release has gotten some heat lately for exposing the following story about Lindsey Lohan all over the internet this week: “Lindsay goes straight for the toilet, pulling her dress up and sitting (no underwear) and one of her breasts is hanging out the top of the dress. I start to wash my [...]
This March the SXSW film festival will be world premiering THE SOURCE, the long-awaited documentary on Los Angeles’ fabled cult-commune the Source Family for their Documentary Feature Competition! THE SOURCE is one of only eight films chosen from over 840 to compete for awards. The film was directed by Process Media Co-founder Jodi Wille and commercial director Maria Demopoulos, [...]
When in LA, I find it worth visiting ground zero of modern aerospace, in Pasadena, birthplace of John Whiteside Parsons and home to Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When he was a child Parsons often visited the nearby bridge on Colorado Blvd with its amazing Beaux-Arts arches, the “suicide bridge.” The bridge invited dozens to take [...]
Harvard, there’s no institution higher. My pharmacist grandad gave me his threadbare set of Harvard Classics, a 51 volume set of the basic texts of Western Civilization, to teach me the basics of a liberal education. The current president and his probable Republican competitor were both graduates of the renowned Cambridge MA school. So was [...]
A very disturbing project came to me from a successful writer who wishes to remain anonymous and who ordinarily publishes through a large New York publishing house. In this case, the NY house refused to print it, and he wondered whether Feral House would do so. Though we had in the past published Muerte, a [...]
What a rabbit hole. After fifty freaking years, how can there not be a great fatigue with the Kennedy Assassination? Why can’t people be knocked sensible and believe what the government says, well, at least some of the government, back the Warren Commission and put forward the conspiracy-free story of the assassination of John Kennedy? [...]
We are excited to announce that we will be publishing Several Ways to Die in Mexico City, an autobiography by Kurt Hollander, this Fall. We have included a lengthy excerpt from the Food chapter below which details some of the city’s deadliest offerings. First a bit more about the book: A hilarious and harrowing story [...]
A few months ago I received a phone call from a writer of various pop culture bestsellers. This man is so respected by the publishing industry that a major New York publisher has given him his own imprint. As it happened, this multi-billion dollar publishing company refused to print the famous writer’s new property, at [...]
For my family throughout the 60s and early ’70s, The Academy Awards meant party time at the Siegel’s house in Sherman Oaks for a yearly gathering. By the Siegels I mean director Don Siegel (known for Dirty Harry and other Clint Eastwood pictures), and his wife Doe, a model and actress once married to photographer [...]
Why would Feral House publish such a book? You mean, the one written by that Iranian dude from Scottsdale, Arizona, land of rich asshats? Yeah dude, what’s up with all that? Are you asking about the guy who does TheDirty.com website? The one that insults women who fuck rich Saudis, get boob jobs and whose thighs [...]
Will Amato, god bless him, provided crucial documents to the Feral House book, Lexicon Devil, about Darby Crash and the strange elemental days of LA punk rock. That material consisted of a yearbook to the bizarre, influential alternative program of West LA’s University High School called “IPS”, an odd Scientology/EST program that formatively influenced Germs performers [...]
A city-wide alarm to inoculate do-gooder Seattleites from the moral depravity of artist Charles Krafft is being rung from the towers and issued by The Stranger, Seattle’s hip, politically active, gay-friendly weekly. I’ve been friendly with Mr. Krafft since the mid-’80s when he published the first review of my book Apocalypse Culture when the bigger New York publications [...]
The booming trumpet of the Apocalypse? Some weird governmental machination like HAARP? Hoaxers? WTF? Friends were calling my attention to various YouTube posts from various countries that present strange and unsettling boomy and distant sounds. Pranksters love posting things like this to laugh at the gullibility of the public. I now gladly add to this [...]
We are very excited to announce the newest Feral House title Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Joseph P. Farrell, PhD, and Scott D. de Hart, PhD. We are also excited to bring you an excerpt from the book that includes the table of contents and the Introduction, Towers and Topology: The Tower of Babel Moment, [...]
A friend called me the other day to tell me that a guy named Mark Dery insulted me in a book titled I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. Yes, Mark Dery, the guy whose review of Apocalypse Culture for the LA Weekly in the early ’90s was more of a personal insult rather than a critique. And then in 2000 [...]
Feral House had its furtive origins in the most crime-ridden streets of “Between C & D” New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey back in the early to mid-’80s. The buildings in which Amok Press and Exit magazine were created are now partly submerged under polluted seawater. The desperate and ephemeral sense of those streets [...]
Voluptuous Panic is the first book we will offer directly from our website in eBook formats fit for most any reader (Kindle, iPad, Nook, etc.). For Apple users this should be exciting news as Steve Jobs banned the Voluptuous Panic eBook for the iPad despite the titles presence in the New York Metropolitan Museum. For [...]
Spring is here, sprouts are popping through the cold soil, and despite all human attempts to destroy the earth, life has come again. I just flew to the mile high city to celebrate the marriage of Boyd Rice and the lovely Karin Buchbinder. The ceremony took place at the high point of Denver’s weirdness, Casa [...]
Four years ago I moved from a great storybook-style house property in the midst of a three acre compound in Los Angeles’ Franklin Hills area. Five other ’30s and ’40s era homes (including one occupied by actor Bud Cort), were situated in this strange compound. With the assistance of our former mate, Jodi Wille, we [...]
Fittingly we unleash our Ritual America slide show at Glendale’s Moose Lodge this coming Thursday June 14 at 7 pm. From what we understand, women and families attend this fraternal lodge at varying times, but drinks can be ordered from the bar. This being a family instiution, no bath salts will be sold. Further info [...]
Among Feral House’s and Process Media’s wide-ranging array of titles are some conspiratorial books looking into the Oklahoma City Bombing and many other questionable aspects of the establishment line. For The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, we were sued for libel by Oliver “Buck” Revell, the FBI’s Deputy Chief. We were prepared to raise [...]
Yes, we love them. The Yé-Yé — translated as Yeah! Yeah!–is a pop music movement primarily given to us by lovely girl singers from France, Quebec, Germany and Spain in the ’60s. Here’s Gillian Hills from the movie Beat Girl, and also known for her brief scenes as Alex’s pick-up in A Clockwork Orange and a party girl [...]
How disappointed y’all must be for still being alive today, and conscious enough to read this sales blog. We’re sorry, really we are, that you weren’t taken away by the predicted cataclysm for your rendezvous with God, Satan, or a patch of dirt. But please be reassured. You are going to die. Yes you are, [...]
We are hiring a 3 month publicity intern. We are accepting applications through Monday May 27th and conducting interviews through the first week of June for hire immediately. The internship will be approximately 10 hours a week but is very flexible. Please send a resume and cover letter to carrie@feralhouse.com. WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM [...]
