A freaky, fantastic retail experience—every October!
Hailing from the creepiest corners of Memphis, Tennessee— Monster Market is a freaky annual pop-up shop, appearing each October to bring you a new curated collection of weird art, hand-plucked oddities, strange apparel, and bizarre home decor!
Each year, we source a new curated Monster Market collection with work from makers of all kinds: designers, illustrators, printmakers, painters, sculptors, ceramicists, writers, jewelers, metalworkers, felters, bleach banshees, resin gremlins, tufters, crafters, stitchers, and more!
Monster Market has materialized in many different ways— as an in-person shop at three different addresses (2017-19), as a virtual pop-up during the height of the pandemic (2020-21), as a cautious mutant-IRL/virtual hybrid (2022), and once even as a pop-up within a pop-up (our Mini-Mart at the Creative Works Vendor Market in 2022)!
Please join us October 13-18 for Monster Market 2023— a multi-day in-person pop-up shop in Downtown Memphis, TN!
Check out the 2023 Lookbook!
Our 2023 Lookbook is LIVE! This is our annual catalog that gives you prospective Monster Market shoppers a taste of what you’ll see in the shop this year!
Please note this is NOT everything we’ll be carrying, just a teaser! We have over 1,000 unique items in the shop this year created by 80 makers and artists.
You’ll only be able to shop everything in-person at the Medicine Factory from October 13-18, 2023 in Memphis!
The Kinda Stuff We Carry— and Who We Carry it For!
Past Exclusives— Stuff Made ✨Just✨ for Monster Market!
A haven for creepy creatives…
Maker Applications Open til July 31, 2023
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Maker Applications Open til July 31, 2023 〰️
One of us, one of us… One of us!
Think you got what it takes to be a Monster Maker?
We build a new roster of makers of all kinds from all over the country for each iteration of our Monster Market pop-up! Some makers return each year, some come and go as the creativity and time align, and we accept new friends every year! If you’re interested in selling your work with us for our 2023 Monster Market pop-up, please check out the Apply page for more information about the kind of work we’re looking for and the timeline you can expect as a maker.
Applications til July 31 | All makers notified by August 1!
Raised from the dead, but once a year…
An annual tradition, 6 years in the making.
Monster Market had been an in-person pop-up event for 3 years running, but 2020 had other plans for us all. Not wanting to become another cancelled event in the wake of Covid-19, we instead made the decision to adapt to an online format for 2020 and 2021. Then in 2022, we hosted our first hybrid year!— an in-person kick-off party followed by a solid month of our online shop, sending out hundreds of hand-packed orders all over the country!
While we loved being able to deliver Monster Market goodies to weirdos all over the U.S., we’re ditching our virtual pop-up this year for a multi-day pop-up shop experience, and we can’t wait to see you all in-person again! Stay tuned for more— and check out our past adventures below!
Our Past Pop-Ups in Memphis, TN
OCTOBER 2022
(Our first hybrid year!)
Kick-Off Party & Mini-Mart at Marshall Arts Gallery + Online Store
OCTOBER 2021
(Virtual again, with our first Lookbook!)
Virtual Pop-Up (Online Store)
OCTOBER 2020
(Our first totally virtual year!)
Virtual Pop-Up (Online Store)
OCTOBER 2019
(Back downtown!)
Pop-up at 618 S. Main Street
OCTOBER 2018
(Growing the Maker Roster!)
Pop-up in Crosstown Concourse
OCTOBER 2017
(Our first year ever!)
Pop-up at 88 N. Main Street
What lurks behind the curtain…
The Monsters That Make the Market
Monster Market is the brainchild and passion project of Holtermonster, but it takes a village to make it run each year!
Pictured here are a few of our makers and some of our staff!
We also depend on many other friends, family, volunteers, our customers, supports, and donations!
Please contact us below to donate anything you think we could use!
Making contact…
Mailing List
Sign up for the Monster Market mailing list to keep up with us year-round!