Come Lose Yourself in the Forest

Welcome to Huldra House

Theodor Kittelsen's 1892 drawing, "Huldra," from his Troldskab collection. A woman in white dress and headscarf, facing away from us, stands in the midground of a meadow, forest behind her. From beneath her modest dress peeks a cow's tail.

We’re a queer, Canadian press producing speculative romance, erotica, horrorotica, and monsterfucking fiction. The press is named for a forest spirit in Norse culture often seen as a seductress, a devourer of those who wade unwary into sylvan paths. Sometimes a boon to travellers, sometimes a nightmare.

One take on the classical version, pictured right (or up if you’re reading this in mobile format), is Theodor Kittelsen’s 1892 drawing, “Huldra,” from his Troldskab collection.

Currently a self-publishing operation, Huldra House publishes 24 short works a year, with the aim of opening up to publishing other queer authors once financially feasible — to have it be one more brick in the wall of queer presses for transphobes and bigots to smash their skulls open against as they try to erase our collective legacy.

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Meet the Team

Kaya Skovdatter (She/They), Publisher

Okay, technically the team is just me right now. But you have to start somewhere.

I’m a Danish-Canadian writer, editor, reviewer, and anthologist, a graduate of Clarion West (’14), and was co-founder and co-editor of Anathema: Spec from the Margins for seven years. I've been in and out of publishing in various capacities for over twenty years, and worked with presses like Harlequin, Explicit Books, Warm Publishing, CZP, Turnstone, BenBella Books, Green Ronin, and Seven Seas, among a host of others.

I’m trans, demisexual, pansexual, disabled, and AuDHD. Which is … quite an intersection of things. And if you know my work, it's almost certainly in one of the capacities named in the paragraph above, and equally almost certain to be under my deadname (Huldra House is the first project I’m doing under my lived name).

If you want to know more, I can usually be found on Bluesky @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social. And sometimes, though much less frequently, at kayaskovdatter.wordpress.com.

The art pictured left (again, up if on mobile), is by Victoria Rusyn (as Rusyn) on Shutterstock.com.