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“Adam Parfrey is the caustic chronicler of America’s Wrong Stuff, and Cult Rapture is his chainsaw tour through the neuroses of the millennium. From cults and conspiracies to isolated loons, from fakes and grifters to the painfully sincere and the seriously terrifying, Parfrey lucidly explores a sampling of the nation’s rarely acknowledged subcultures. This is America as only Parfrey can reveal it.”
— Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

“In Cult Rapture, Adam Parfrey shows himself to be unique among investigative journalists: one unafraid to go where barkers fear to tread.”
— Nick Tosches, author of Dino, Hellfire and Trinities.

“A paranoid fusion of H.L. Mencken and evil scientist Yacub, Adam Parfrey is the world’s foremost eschatological humorist. While his oceanic intellect and ability to concoct cruelly precise turns of phrase should be apparent to anyone who can read, it’s his sense of humor which is most often overlooked - he’s one of the funniest writers in the biz! … With the world nearly a decade closer to Ragnarok than when Apocalypse Culture first hatched, Cult Rapture is a much needed dose of Schadenfreudian therapy.”
— Jim Goad, ANSWER Me!, The Redneck Manifesto

“Most disturbing was the piece about the crippled sex cult. Adam Parfrey is to be commended not only for his journalistic skills but also for his cast-iron stomach.”
— Daniel Clowes, Eightball

“Parfrey has influenced the publishing industry greatly within the last decade. In Cult Rapture, he encompasses a new thoughtfulness, and one can only say, ‘More, More, More.’ It’s a book that makes me laugh outloud, and that’s rare. His journalism takes us closer to the truth than anyone else’s.”
— Crispin Glover

“Mind-blowing! A landmark of journalism … The piece on the Oklahoma City bombing is the best thing I’ve read on agitprop theater.”
— Jim Martin, Flatland

“Look nowhere else, ladies and gentleman, Cult Rapture takes you to the center of the margins of American culture. … Devastating …”
— Len Bracken, biographer of Guy Debord: Revolutionary