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.

See also

• Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore (published by Feral House)

References

External links

• Official website
• Feral House at YouTube