Centipede Press
| Founded | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jerad Walters |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Headquarters location | Lakewood, Colorado |
| Distribution | Consortium Book Sales |
| Publication types | Books, Journals |
| Fiction genres | Horror, Gothic, Science Fiction, Weird, Crime, Thriller, Abnormal Psychology |
| Official website | centipedepress |
Centipede Press is an American independent book and periodical publisher focusing on horror, weird tales, crime narratives, science fiction, gothic novels, fantasy art, and studies of literature, music and film. Its earliest imprints were Cocytus Press and Millipede Press.
Centipede press was founded in 2001 in Lakewood, Colorado by Jerad Walters. Since inception, it has published over two hundred volumes including currently well-known authors (including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Richard Adams, John Fowles, Neil Gaiman, and Patrick McGrath), as well as resurrecting out-of-print works of past genre writers. As of 2017, the press releases two to three new books a month, principally in luxury or oversized, signed or traycased hardback editions aimed toward the collector's market.
Centipede Press received the Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award in 2013, with its other volumes being named finalists in other years for the Stoker Award in Non-fiction twice, the Locus award for Single-Author Story Collection, and World Fantasy Award for Best Multiple-Author Anthology (from its first released book, Stigmata, in 2001). Noting this press's novel treatments and presentations of the fiction of Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Patrick McGrath at the Stoker Awards presentations in New Orleans on 15 June 2013, the Board of the 1,300 member-World Horror Association lauded how Centipede "specializes in horror, crime, and science fiction", yet also regularly produces important "art books, career retrospectives, and critical studies on horror films". As the award presenter put it: "Centipede Press titles strive to be excellent examples of bookmaking, with superior design, page layout, and dust jackets."
Books from the press have been reviewed in The New York Times,The Washington Post,Playboy,The Wall Street Journal,Black Static,Dead Reckonings,Fangoria,Rue Morgue,Shock Cinema,Positif: Revue Mensuelle de Cinéma,Empire,Locus,Cemetery Dance,Famous Monsters of Filmland,Film Quarterly,The American Scholar,CineAction, and The Los Angeles Times.
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