Feral House
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Founder | Adam Parfrey |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Port Townsend, Washington |
| Nonfiction topics | Non-fiction |
| Imprints | Process Media |
| Official website |
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Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. Feral House describes itself as "publishing innovative and celebrated non-fiction books since 1989. Movies have been made, cultural trends influenced and political crimes exposed by our small, independent press." [1]
Feral House was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Port Townsend, Washington.[2]
A sister imprint to Feral House, Process Media, was founded in 2005 in a collaboration with Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press to publish titles that are of differing style and content of Feral House.[3]
Film
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
- 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 [6]
- 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 [7]
- 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[8]
- 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 [9]
References
- ↑ http://feralhouse.com/about-us/
- ↑ http://feralhouse.com/about-us/
- ↑ Process Media
- ↑ Umland, Samuel J. (2015). The Tim Burton Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 182.
- ↑ "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control". Filmmaker. 2006-09-22. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ↑ Library Thing
- ↑ Independent Publisher Online Magazine
- ↑ Independent Publisher Online Magazine
- ↑ Independent Publisher Awards 2012