Feral House

American publishing house

Feral House
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]
Key people	Jessica 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]

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

Readercon | Best Book of 1989: Apocalypse Culture, edited by Adam Parfrey^{[citation needed]}
Firecracker Award | Best Music Book of 1999: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind.^[6]

Selected bibliography

Mudrian, Albert (2004). Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. ISBN 978-1932595048.
Parfrey, Adam, and Kenn Thomas, eds. (2008). Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History into the 21st Century. ISBN 978-1932595352. OCLC 216936953.
Patterson, Dayal (2013). Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult. ISBN 978-1-936239-75-7
Parfrey, Adam, and Cleetus Nelson. (2014). Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes. ISBN 978-1936239955. OCLC 1193377936.

References

^ ^a ^b "About Us". Feral House. Archived from the original.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Umland, Samuel J. (2015). The Tim Burton Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182. ISBN 9780810892019.
^ Guerrasio, Jason (September 22, 2006). "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control." Filmmaker. Archived from the original.
^ "Firecracker Alternative Book Award (list)". Library Thing. Archived from the original on Sep 5, 2012.