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When he had the idea to write the book, he was living in New York, doing typesetting and layout for a small publishing company.

In a blog on the Feral House website, Parfrey recently wrote of the book’s popularity, “I think it had to do with recognizing the presence of insane ideas intentionally ignored or dismissed by the society’s titans and papers of record.” “We still get contacted regularly by people who say changed their life,” said Jessica Parfrey, Parfrey’s sister. Titles of some of the essays in the book include: “Frank Talk from a Psychopath,” “The Cereal Box Conspiracy Against the Developing Mind,” “A Case for Self-Castration” and “Satanic Technology and the West.” Parfrey, who moved to PT about five years ago, is perhaps best known for his 1987 book “Apocalypse Culture,” a collection of writings by several authors, himself included. “Good mothers don’t want to take their children near it,” said Parfrey, adding that larger chain stores such as Barnes & Noble and the now-defunct Borders Books have offered Feral House books, but independent bookstores often only carry “what the New York Times deems as being appropriate.” Several of the books published by Feral House are not carried by independent bookstores. “I’m not frightened off by political or conspiratorial books, or books that are ‘too much.’” Weird sex, serial killers, drugs, George Bush – no topic is too off-the-wall.

Things I think are important but are being ignored,” said Adam Parfrey of Feral House books. “I’m drawn to things that are not being done, that are off the track. A high-ceilinged, book-filled house in Port Townsend is a publishing company quietly producing an eclectic, outrageously entertaining line of books.