Easy to find the occult in THE BABADOOK and TWIN PEAKS, but what about JFK or READY PLAYER ONE? In "Hollywood Haunts The World," Robert Guffey finds the hidden gnosticism, surrealism, and taboo in films & TV both in and out of the horror genre. New from @headpress.com headpress.com/product/holl...

It's a good week for fans of strange cinema, with the release of Robert Guffey's Hollywood Haunts the World *and* Nick Cato's Dark Dreams: An Obsessive Look at Romano Scavolini's NIGHTMARE 🎉 Treat yourself to both here: headpress.com/shop/ #horror #cultfilm #newbooks #videonasties #occult

Perfect Saturday viewing: Robert Guffey talks about the strange cinema of Edward G. Ulmer: youtube.com/watch?v=mol2eAK3uBk If you like this, you'll love Robert's new book for @headpress.com, Hollywood Haunts the World 🎥 #cultfilm #horror #cultcinema #newbookrelease #filmbooks

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚 alt text please

A new issue of Bizarrism #zine is always cause for celebration! Issue 19 includes a piece on the strange death of Thelma Todd, as well as a review of Edwin Lee Canfield's fabulous @headpress.com book on Criswell.

Thank you to Adam at The Bedlam Files for the latest review of Richard Scheib's A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic! #newbooks #cultfilm #horror #cultcinema #filmbooks thebedlamfiles.com/nonfiction/a...

Featuring Hollywood Haunts the World author Robert Guffey! 👇

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Aaand... the website is up and running again! Thank you for bearing with us, and apologies for the inconvenience.

Thank you to @retroramblings.bsky.social for this great review of Richard Scheib's A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic! "[A]nother left field, entertaining film book from Headpress". www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/a...

Just a heads up that we are still- aaargh - experiencing problems with our website and some email accounts. Please bear with us, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can ✍️ (possibly by carrier pigeon).

We're still having technical issues with the website. Hang tight, we're working on it with our provider and hope to be back to normal soon!

🖤 We're so pleased to be publishing this!

1 hour to go #enclosurethree

This evening you can catch a guest selection from Will Burns, the author of the fantastic Ghost of an Idea from @headpress.com on It Came From ... Enclosure Three from @gehegedrei.bsky.social If you've not come across Will's book it's very much worth checking out ! #ghostofanidea #williamburns

Coming soon from Headpress: Rachel Walther's 'Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon'. More info and mailing list sign-up here: headpress.com/product/born...

We're having some technical issues this week, so if we're slower than usual to reply to emails please bear with us - we'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Exciting news: PURE by @jaredstearnssf.bsky.social is now available in a Spanish language edition from Applehead! appleheadteam.com/producto/pur... #booksintranslation #marilynchambers

Trusses (early 1980s) photograph by Anne Billson (limited interactions to avoid having to deal with Liz Truss comments)

#enclosurethree Next week something really special...a wonderful hauntological session from William Burns. @headpress.com

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

We're set up for the Occultz #zine fair at The Bullingdon in Oxford today - come see us from 10.30!

Coming soon... Nick Cato's obsessive deep-dive into Romano Scavolini's Nightmare, DARK DREAMS. #cultfilm #horror #precert #vhs #videonasties More info at the link: headpress.com/product/dark...

Tomorrow!

Thank you, @sliceofscifi.com!

We'll be at the Occultz comic, cult and zine fair in #Oxford on Saturday 6 September, with a host of @headpress.com goodies including some rare items from the vaults for sale! Stop by and see us from 10.30 at The Bullingdon on Cowley Road. #oxfordevents #cultfilm #zines #indiepublishing

Thank you to the great Mike Watt (!) for having me as a guest on the Watt from Pedro show today. We talk a lot about Michael Belfer/Sleepers/When Can I Fly? and a little about Who Cares Anyway. @wattfrompedro.bsky.social @headpress.com www.twfps.com/past-episode...

When you're proofing in a cafe and the music sounds like you're in the early scenes of an Italian cannibal film.

It's Friday, it's very hot, but here's a great review of Richard Scheib's A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic to start the weekend. Thank you, @musiquemachine.bsky.social. www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/revi...

Please , if you are able Support Independent publishers. They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories. There are many but here are a few. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social Thank you.

A fantastic review of A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic from @gnofhorror.com! "Richard Scheib has produced nothing short of a classic and essential work in film and cultural studies." #filmbooks #cultfilm #newbooks #indiepublishing gnofhorror.com/a-viewing-gu...

Thanks to @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net at RNZ for this fabulous interview with @headpress.com author Richard Scheib about his new book, A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"A small group of people in the middle of nowhere. Isolated & cut off, with no way out. An atmosphere of tension & dread settles over proceedings as our protagonists realise that they’re not alone..." Cuddle up on the settee with our Finlay for Nigel Kneale's BEASTS (1976).👇 wp.me/p6lzJb-7sa

To recreate this shot I had to get into a hedge. And unlike John McGlashan, I wasn’t carrying a 16mm film camera.

On the occasion of MR James’s birthday I have visited St Mary’s in Orchardleigh, the “church on the water” of the 1974 adaptation of The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. I’ve been cataloguing shots from Lawrence Gordon Clark’s storyboards for the @headpress.com book.

This is one of the best book titles I've ever seen (great cover, too!)

Saturday listening: author Richard Scheib talks to @rj-buchanan.bsky.social of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his new book, A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic. Listen to the episode here: newbooksnetwork.com/a-viewing-gu... #newbook #filmbook #plague #pandemic

Lovely to see The Book of Beasts featured in this list of the best books on hauntology, folk horror and all things wyrd. Flattered to be amongst some esteemed publications. Thank you William.

A fantastic review of Richard Scheib's A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic over at Flick Attack: "Virus-borne diseases and resulting quarantines/shutdowns aren’t fun. But A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic sure is, plumbing depths of obscurity and wealth of genre." flickattack.com/2025/07/view...

William Burns has picked his best books on #hauntology for @shepherdbooks.bsky.social, including books by @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social, Howard David Ingham, and @scarredforlife.bsky.social. shepherd.com/best-books/h...

NEW ON THE BLOG: William Burns on the enduring influence of the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom: headpress.com/blog/2025/07... #desade #frenchliterature #cultcinema #pasolini #marcoferreri #whitehouse #powerelectronics

Thank you! 🙌

I'm still researching old cheese-sleaze paperbacks during my down time, and I'm thinking about Carl Corley's works. I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge by Any Means, but I'm not right offhand thinking of any other prose novelists who truly illustrated their own covers.

The Post NZ features Richard Scheib and his new book, A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3607...

"This exhibition clearly understands its market. I wonder who might be behind it, and where the exhibits have come from... among the items displayed in London, one name crops up time and again in correspondence with other killers..." -- by @davidkerekes.bsky.social for the @headpress.com blog.

Here is a new piece of mine on the serial killer world tour exhibition, prior to its Berlin leg in August. It is an excerpt of a long form essay which will appear later on.

New on the @headpress.com blog: @davidkerekes.bsky.social visits 'Serial Killer the Exhibition' and muses on staging murder, the phenomenon of the #serialkiller, and questions of taste. #truecrime #popculture #altculture #serialkillers headpress.com/blog/2025/06...

Anyway, this is the book, coming soon: Hollywood Haunts the World by Robert Guffey. headpress.com/product/holl...

...I also have a list of films and books I need to go back to or seek out, because the act of indexing has led me to read about something I never normally would have, or reappraise something - like Donovan's Brain by Curt Siodmak! #scifi /2

I know I go on about hating AI rather often, but what people who want to push us all towards it don't realise is the enjoyment to be had in even the most "mundane" of tasks. I've been proofing and indexing a new @headpress.com title this week, and apart from really enjoying the author's writing 1/