In total, Amok Press published eight books, including You Can't Win, by Jack Black, The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror, by Mel Gordon, and Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography, As Told to Dr.

This was followed by Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture, a collection of articles, interviews, and documents that explore various marginal aspects of culture.

(Amok Books, an unrelated imprint, was founded by Swezey's brother Stuart later that year.) Amok Press's first title was an English translation by Joachim Neugroschel of the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels's novel Michael (1929). In 1987, Parfrey and Kenneth Swezey co-founded Amok Press in New York. In 1984, with Kim Seltzer and Strand co-worker George Petros, Parfrey launched EXIT magazine he collaborated on three of the six published issues before leaving the publication in 1987. That year, Parfrey moved east to Hoboken, New Jersey, and began working at New York City's Strand Bookstore. In 1983 he wrote and performed in a play, The Wickedest Man in the World, about Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century French serial killer of children. That publication folded after two issues. After graduating high school, he attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA, before dropping out to move to San Francisco, where he began a short-lived experimental magazine, IDEA. Parfrey was born in New York City, but during childhood moved to Los Angeles with his parents, actor Woodrow Parfrey and Rosa Ellovich, a stage director of Jewish descent. And in many cases-at least back when his interests were almost exclusively transgressive-he sheds light on subjects that society prefers to leave unexplored, carving a niche catering to those of us with an unseemly obsession with life's darkest, most depraved sides.' Early life A 2010 Seattle Weekly profile stated that 'what Parfrey does is publish books that explore the marginal aspects of culture. Adam Parfrey (Ap– May 10, 2018) was an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centered on unusual, extreme, or 'forbidden' areas of knowledge.

Sin-a-Rama by Adam Parfrey