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Creature Publishing is a feminist horror press based in Brooklyn, NY. What is feminist horror? Simply put, it is storytelling which uses horror tropes to explore feminist issues. Beyond that, it is unraveling minds, transforming bodies, possession, oppression, final girls, femme fatales. It is hybrid, intersectional, and constantly shifting. It is a conversation. As this conversation evolves, our list of booksor catalog of creatureswill speak to the power of feminist horror to transgress genres, boundaries, and convention. Creature Publishing was founded on a passion for feminist discourse and horror’s potential for social commentary and catharsis. Seeking to address the gender imbalance and lack of diversity traditionally found in the horror genre, Creature is a platform for stories which challenge the status quo. Our definition of feminist horror, broad and inclusive, expands the scope of what horror can be and who can make it. We think of our books as individual creaturesliving, forceful entities with desires of their own, capable of inspiring fear, passion, anxiety, dread. The spine illustration on the spines of our books speaks to this idea. Our name is also a nod to the content of the genre itself; horror is full of creatures, human and nonhuman and all things in-between. They can have gender or not, body or not, consciousness or not. They can be sinister or benevolent, familiar or “other.” The monster under the bed, the monster in bed with us, the monster inside. Our creatures have bones to pick. We like it that way.

There are currently no books in the Five Colleges from this press.