Feral House
Feral House is an American book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey, founded in 1989 and based in Port Townsend, Washington.[2]
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Adam Parfrey |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Port Townsend, Washington |
| Distribution | Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US, Canada) Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1] |
| Nonfiction topics | Non-fiction |
| Imprints | Process Media |
| Official website | feralhouse |
Early history
The company's first book was The Satanic Witch (1989; originally published in 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company) by Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan.
Cultural references
Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based upon the Feral House title, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.[3] The Feral House title American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush has been made into a feature documentary of the same name, released by Sony Classics in the fall of 2006.[4]
Awards
- Winner: Best Book of 1989 by Readercon: Apocalypse Culture edited by Adam Parfrey
- Winner: Firecracker Award, Best Music Book of 1999: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind [5]
- Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Pop Culture Book of 2000: Pills-a-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation Into Pill Marketing, Art, History & Consumption by Jim Hogshire
- Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Erotica Book of 2005: SuicideGirls edited by Missy Suicide [6]
- Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best Pop Culture Book of 2006: Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey[7]
- Winner: Independent Publisher Awards Best History Book of 2012 Silver Medal: Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on America Society by Adam Parfrey, and Craig Heimbichner [8]
gollark: I try to avoid writing things by hand.
gollark: Meh.
gollark: "Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex." (28 letters) "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz." (28 letters) "Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf." (28 letters) "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." (29 letters) "How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!" (30 letters) "The five boxing wizards jump quickly." (31 letters) "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." (31 letters) "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." (32 letters)These 8 are shorter and mostly better (stolen blatantly from Wikipedia).
gollark: The fox/dog one is among the *least* cool pangrams, honestly?
gollark: sphnix of black quartz, judge my vow > the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
See also
- Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore (published by Feral House)
References
- "About Us". Feral House. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- http://feralhouse.com/about-us/
- Umland, Samuel J. (2015). The Tim Burton Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182.
- Guerrasio, Jason (2006-09-22). "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control". Filmmaker. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- Library Thing
- Independent Publisher Online Magazine Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Independent Publisher Online Magazine
- Independent Publisher Awards 2012
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