A lovely short review of Rachel Walther's Born to Lose, on the latest Flick Attack reading list: flickattack.com/2026/05/read... #dogdayafternoon #alpacino #sidneylumet #cultfilm #newyork

Thankyou indeed to everyone who came along to the Headpress anniversary celebration yesterday, and thankyou to our great guests. It was a wonderfully edifying and humbling day!

change of plan: the livestreamed M R James story on 27 June will now be "A View from a Hill" rather than "The Residence at Whitminster." Register here viewhill.eventbrite.co.uk

Thank you so much to everyone who came to celebrate our 35th anniversary with us yesterday! We had a great day and it was lovely to see familiar and new faces there to celebrate the continued vibrancy of #indiepublishing 🎊

If you're in #Manchester today, pop in to listen to a panel or buy some books! Tickets available on the door. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

Tomorrow!

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Robert Guffey returns to Steven Snider's The Farm podcast for Hollywood Haunts the World Part 2! cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-re...

Chatted yesterday with Lakkaya and William about their excellent short film, The Shedding, which explores identity and isolation. Hope a few of you can join us for the screening and Q&A on Saturday.

Packaging afternoon, these Buttgereit postcard sets look gorgeous 😍

Big thanks to Amelie Tompsett at The Mancunion for talking to us for this lovely piece celebrating 35 years of #indiepublishing! 🎊 mancunion.com/2026/05/17/t...

Not long now! Join us in #Manchester this Saturday to indulge your love of Nigel Kneale, odd music, #horror, and meet Nekromantik director Jörg Buttgereit 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Thanks @davidkerekes.bsky.social from one of my favourite publishers @headpress.com for this new review of my 2022 opus 'Ghost Stories I Remember' @colossive.com headpress.com/blog/2026/05...

Big thanks to Amelie Tompsett at The Mancunion for talking to us for this lovely piece celebrating 35 years of #indiepublishing! 🎊 mancunion.com/2026/05/17/t...

Packaging afternoon, these Buttgereit postcard sets look gorgeous 😍

Looking forward to this next weekend. I will be on the Nigel Kneale panel and signing books throughout the day. A full day of horror, cult TV and music. Hope to see some of you there.

Not long now!

Only a week to go! There's still time to book your tickets or you can turn up on the door. Books will be available to buy at a discount throughout the day, and we'll conclude with a Q&A and signing with Jörg Buttgereit 🎉 #books #manchester #horror #cultTV www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

What 3 films changed your life? @davidkerekes.bsky.social, founder of @headpress.com celebrates 35 years of fuelling our counter culture & shares his 3 films: Two Land Blacktop, Fight Club & Faces Of Death / Schramm Apple podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkV...

Check out the latest Britflicks podcast episode, where @davidkerekes.bsky.social discusses the 3 films that changed his life! www.britflicks.com/britflicks-p...

Good morning, campers! Did you buy your ticket for our 35th anniversary shindig in #Manchester yet? A host of Headpress writers, books, and a special guest appearance from Nekromantik director Jörg Buttgereit! 👀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Just arrived: limited edition postcard sets marking the updated edition of Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit! Exclusively available at our anniversary event this month, any remaining stock will be added to the Headpress website. These won't be reprinted!

Thank you to Forces of Geek and @booksteve.bsky.social for this review of Rachel Walther's Born to Lose: "Rachel Walther’s Born to Lose seems born to win". Read the full review here 👇 forcesofgeek.com/born-to-lose... #dogdayafternoon #alpacino #sidneylumet

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

A new podcast interview with Hollywood Haunts the World author Robert Guffey, over at Steven Snider's The Farm: www.patreon.com/posts/hollyw...

"leaves dead and buried any notion that horror helming is exclusively the province of men": my review of @honeycuttheidi.bsky.social’s book I SPIT ON YOUR CELLULOID: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN DIRECTING HORROR MOVIES (2024) projectedfigures.com/2026/05/03/i...

23 May, #Manchester. Nigel Kneale obsessions! Weird music! #Horror shorts! Jörg Buttgereit! Get your tickets here for our 35th anniversary event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #bookevents #authortalks #headpress #manchesterevents #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

Current commute reading Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia (William Burns, 2024) #NowReading @headpress.com

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Used Boxed Sets of The Upper Hand £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

23 May, #Manchester. Nigel Kneale obsessions! Weird music! #Horror shorts! Jörg Buttgereit! Get your tickets here for our 35th anniversary event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #bookevents #authortalks #headpress #manchesterevents #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

As a special treat because the book is doing so well, we’re going to post one a day on the hashtag #lostfilmsofhollywood til the Kickstarter closes. Thank you to everyone who has backed it so far and there’s still time to get your books and postcards here:

Bit of a last-minute one, but me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to Whitby's Hand of Glory Festival next Friday 1 May at 9pm - and it's free. You heard me: free! Mayday weekend in Goth Central? It's like folklore Christmas!

Mail-out time! If you shortly receive a poster or flyer for our 35th anniversary event, then that means we consider you one of the very cool places in #Manchester. Event tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

What we're reading: Offbeat contributor James Oliver's fantastic new #cultfilm #cultcinema blog, The Royal Bathers Club: jamesoliver589903.substack.com

Heads up. I contributed a new essay to the booklet for the very fine limited 4k Faces of Death (1979), from Vinegar Syndrome @vinsyn.bsky.social #mondo #facesofdeath @headpress.com

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Every event needs a good playlist, and @jasonbbernard.bsky.social will be curating ours to play between talks. Jason is a conceptual artist, writer, and the founder of Peripheral Minimal Records. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: @davidkerekes.bsky.social One of the original founders of Headpress in 1991, David will be joining #JörgButtgereit to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our special guest: Jörg Buttgereit! The cult director of #Nekromantik, Schramm, and Der Todesking joins us to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit by David Kerekes. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our special guest: Jörg Buttgereit! The cult director of #Nekromantik, Schramm, and Der Todesking joins us to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit by David Kerekes. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: @davidkerekes.bsky.social One of the original founders of Headpress in 1991, David will be joining #JörgButtgereit to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Jennifer Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social Jennifer is the editor of Fight Your Own War and contributor to various Headpress titles, and joins our Music from the Margins panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Anyway, some film books I've found particularly helpful in finding new and obscure things to watch include... 1. Offbeat, ed. Julian Upton, from @headpress.com headpress.com/product/offb...

This phenomenal version of Gouge Away is our office listening today. #pixies www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUN...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Mark Goodall. Mark's books include the Gathering of the Tribe series (newest instalment just out!) and Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Mondo Film Lens. He joins our music panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

From Fiona Richmond to Throbbing Gristle, and Christina Lindberg to Crass, Mark Goodall's latest Gathering of the Tribe volume is out now! headpress.com/product/gath... #newbooks #vinyl #occult #esoteric #booksaboutmusic

Very much looking forward to this.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer, critic, podcast host, and author of a forthcoming book on BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, he chairs our New Voices in #Horror panel. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Before 90s regentrification, New York was a different place. Enter the grimy, chaotic world of the 1980s Meatpacking District. Listen to excerpts of @mjbackus.bsky’s brilliant The Heart is Meat here: www.michaeljbackus.com/recordings

This New Bleeding Skull looks interesting and seems certain to sell out: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

ICYMI: On National Indexing Day, we need to celebrate this intensely human publishing role, says our associate editor and non-fiction previewer Caroline Sanderson 👇 #BookSky