Adam Parfrey first unleashed his vision on an unsuspecting world with Exit, a gloriously unpleasant, predominantly graphic magazine that poked a gloopy finger into the mind's eye. Exit mixed totalitarian graphics, crazed rants and wild ideas with the visionary artwork of Joe Coleman and smoke'n'chrome noisemaster JG Thirlwell.

In 1987, Parfrey turned his attention to books, editing and publishing the definitive fin-de-temps collection, Apocalypse Culture. This tome captured the insanity of the late 20th century, and announced an aesthetic, scientific, anthropological and social interest in all things deemed forbidden by the dull homogeneity that is mainstream culture. The book - which appeared in two incarnations - included rants from anarchists, paranoia from conspiracy theorists, an interview with a necrophile and documents on becoming a werewolf.