Underground icon, No Wave pioneer, and cultural outlaw Lydia Lunch delivers a brutally honest, pleasure-driven cookbook that feeds the body, fuels obsession, and celebrates excess with intention.

Best known for her work in No Wave, spoken word, and transgressive art, Lydia Lunch earned her name cooking improvised feasts for starving artists and musicians in downtown New York—Sonic Youth, Suicide, Henry Rollins, the Dead Boys, the Butthole Surfers, and countless others who helped define underground culture. Her raw culinary philosophy even reached mainstream audiences through her appearance with Anthony Bourdain, cementing her reputation as a cook who understands food as survival, seduction, and rebellion.

The Need to Feed is not a conventional cookbook—it’s a hedonist’s survival manual, a kitchen manifesto for people who live hard, work harder, and refuse joyless eating. Updated for a new generation, this edition features updated recipes and full-color photography that captures the mood, menace, and intimacy of Lydia’s world.

These recipes are designed for maximum satisfaction—flavor-dense, indulgent, and unapologetically sensual. From late-night recovery meals to three-course feasts for lovers, pranksters, and creative conspirators, Lunch shows how to set the mood as carefully as the table. This is food for bodies pushed to their limits by art, labor, sex, and excess.

Written in Lydia Lunch’s unmistakable voice—sharp, profane, funny, and feral—this book blends practical cooking advice with erotic personal asides and hard-won street wisdom. The Need to Feed belongs in the kitchens of artists, outsiders, and anyone who believes eating should be as dangerous, nourishing, and satisfying as living.

The book begins with an invocation by Michelle Forbes (True Blood, Kalifornia) and a foreword by renowned journalist Cathi Unsworth.

“Lydia is one of the few people left in America who actually knows what she’s talking about. I’d follow her into the jaws of hell and beyond. Try these recipes. Try them all. I dare you.” Shirley Manson

To follow up on the Feral House release, Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of The Final Judgment, written by Timothy Wyllie, here are full color reproductions of the Process Church’s notorious and rare thematic magazines, all boldly imaginative and decades ahead of their time. This edition, limited to 1,200 copies, also includes the essay, “The Gods on War,” written by the cult’s “Omega,” which reveals how the Gods Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan have vowed apocalyptic vengeance against man. An audio recording of “The Gods on War,” with Lydia Lunch, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Timothy Wyllie is available as a download to every book buyer. When they’ve become available, these extremely rare magazines have sold for a thousand dollars each, or more.

The rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you?

The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion amongst London’s swinging set. The Process Church magazines, published between 1967-1971, the celebrated thematic magazines of the notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment cult were created to be hawked on the street in order to raise money and attract like-minded adherents to their unorthodox Gnostic theology.

Printed in order of their first appearance, the Sex, Fear, and Death issues are here reproduced in their entirety. The first edition of this collection published in 2009 now sells for over a thousand dollars.

The magazines reproduced in this book are lionized as being decades ahead of their time in terms of the sophistication of its art and design. The cult was also attacked for including in its Death issue a contribution by Charles Manson. This inclusion led the dark-robed cult to be characterized as a sinister death cult.
Included is the original introduction by Adam Parfrey and by the magazine’s original art director, Timothy Wyllie. Parfrey contextualizes the meanings and impact of the magazines on the world at large.

Full reproductions of the most notorious magazines of the most notorious cult of the 20th century, now available in a soft cover edition.

Download The Gods on War Audio Here

The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.

The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic “Goat of Mendes” and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of London, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Toronto, selling magazines and books with titles like “Fear” and Humanity is the Devil. 

Members would participate in “Midnight Meditations” beneath photographs of the Christ-like leader. Celebrities like Marianne Faithful, James Coburn, and Mick Jagger participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic, in its Maggot Brain album, reprinted Process’ “Fear Issue.” Process’ “Death Issue” interviewed the freshly-imprisoned Charles Manson leading to conspiracy hysteria in such books as Ed Sanders’ The Family and Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil. A lawsuit against Sanders’ Manson book led to the removal of its Process-themed chapter by Dutton. 

Love, Sex, Fear, Death is the shocking, surprising, and secretive inside story of The Process Church, which was later transformed into Foundation Faith of the Millennium, and most recently as the Utah-based animal sanctuary, Best Friends. Timothy Wyllie, a formative member of the Process and Foundation Faith organizations contributed a comprehensive history of the group and its rituals. Love, Sex, Fear, Death also includes  interviews with other former Processeans; selections from the rare and notorious Process magazines; never-before-seen photographs; and fascinating transcripts from holy books. New to this edition will be select court transcripts from the 1972 suit where the Process Church sued Ed Sanders for libel in England (and won.)

Author Biography: Timothy Wyllie (1940-2017) was born in Great Britain and raised in London and is one of the original Process Church members.

The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.

The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic “Goat of Mendes” and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of London, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Toronto, selling magazines and books with titles like “Fear” and Humanity is the Devil. 

Members would participate in “Midnight Meditations” beneath photographs of the Christ-like leader. Celebrities like Marianne Faithful, James Coburn, and Mick Jagger participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic, in its Maggot Brain album, reprinted Process’ “Fear Issue.” Process’ “Death Issue” interviewed the freshly-imprisoned Charles Manson leading to conspiracy hysteria in such books as Ed Sanders’ The Family and Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil. A lawsuit against Sanders’ Manson book led to the removal of its Process-themed chapter by Dutton. 

Love, Sex, Fear, Death is the shocking, surprising, and secretive inside story of The Process Church, which was later transformed into Foundation Faith of the Millennium, and most recently as the Utah-based animal sanctuary, Best Friends. Timothy Wyllie, a formative member of the Process and Foundation Faith organizations contributed a comprehensive history of the group and its rituals. Love, Sex, Fear, Death also includes  interviews with other former Processeans; selections from the rare and notorious Process magazines; never-before-seen photographs; and fascinating transcripts from holy books. New to this edition will be select court transcripts from the 1972 suit where the Process Church sued Ed Sanders for libel in England (and won.)

Author Biography: Timothy Wyllie (1940-2017) was born in Great Britain and raised in London and is one of the original Process Church members.

Orders placed directly with Feral House receive a signed photo of Eugene Robinson. Quantities are very limited.

A rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musician Eugene S. Robinson that takes readers along through the story of his life.

“A weird rollicking ride” frames how author Eugene S. Robinson views his journey from a Brooklyn kid with decidedly offbeat punk rock proclivities to the realities of California hardcore and dark detours into shows, tours, drugs, porn, guns, MMA fighting, an Ivy League-esque education and his eventual entry into the US Defense industry just in time to see his boss dragged into Contragate.

Robinson’s writing mirrors his fighting style intensity, ferocity, and brutal truth. He knows exactly who he is and how he is perceived by the white people and white culture that surrounds him. Robinson challenges accepted norms. He fights against easy answers and safe passages. He says:

“No one who ever gets a life sentence for just about anything really expects it to last a lifetime. Even if the modifier is “without the possibility of parole.” Hope springs eternal but there’s always the undiscussed other option. The one where the fate is chosen, freely, and the protagonist has about as much interest in escaping as he does of being almost anywhere else at all. Which is to say: not at all.”

A Walk Across Dirty Water is Robinson’s memoir of growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, playing in punk bands and touring the world during the eighties, taking a break to attend Stanford, and accidentally becoming a famous television personality in Germany.