Feral House

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Feral House
StatusActive
Founded1989
Founder Adam Parfrey
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location Port Townsend, Washington
Distribution Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US, Canada)
Turnaround Publisher Services (UK) [1]
Key peopleJessica Parfrey, Christina Ward
Nonfiction topics Non-fiction
Imprints Process Media
Official website feralhouse.com

Feral House is an American book publisher founded in 1989 by Adam Parfrey and based in Port Townsend, Washington. [1]

Contents

Following the death of the founder Adam Parfrey in 2018, [2] Feral House continues to be run by Parfrey's sister, Jessica Parfrey and Christina Ward. [3]

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. [4] 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. [5]

Awards

Selected bibliography

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References

  1. 1 2 "About Us". Feral House. Archived from the original.
  2. Roberts, Sam (2018-05-14). "Adam Parfrey, Publisher of the Provocative, Dies at 61". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  3. Haber, Matt (2021-06-07). "Years After Its Founder's Death, Cult Publisher Feral House Is Still Celebrating the Bizarre". LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  4. Umland, Samuel J. (2015). The Tim Burton Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182. ISBN   9780810892019.
  5. Guerrasio, Jason (September 22, 2006). "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control." Filmmaker . Archived from the original.
  6. "List of Firecracker Award winners". librarything.com. LibraryThing . Retrieved December 15, 2014.