🎈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 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-...

I am honoured and excited to see this translate to the screen!

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...

🎈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-...

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

🎈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-...

🎈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

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social Andy is the author of Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of #NigelKneale and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he joins our Nigel Kneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Two months later, another new book release - JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill ships TODAY from Headpress Publishing. Happy Book Day! headpress.com/product/jack... #PamGrier #headpress #Coffy #JackHill #Exploitation #Spiderbaby #FoxyBrown #BorisKarloff #JackNicholson #RogerCorman

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Will Dupere An emerging screenwriter, Will's projects include TWATTER, comedy play The Supreme Court, and #horror short The Shedding. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #manchester #manchesterevents

Ready to ship tomorrow! Pink Tsunami: The #HelloKitty #kawaii wave that has swept the world by Alan Brender 😻 #sanrio #japan #popculture #newbooks Get your copy here: headpress.com/product/pink...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Lakkaya Palmer Lakkaya is a #horror writer & filmmaker & joins us to discuss her short film The Shedding. We're hoping her PhD research on ferocious fatherhood soon becomes a book 🙏 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: @tobyhadoke.bsky.social Actor, writer & comedian, Toby joins our #NigelKneale panel! His book on The Quatermass Experiment was published by @tenacrebooks.bsky.social in 2025. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Andy Cowan @vinylslam.bsky.social Author of B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop, MOJO jazz columnist, + owner of outsider label/press Skill, he joins our Music from the Margins panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: BRONTË SCHILTZ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social An author, journalist, and PhD candidate researching the televisual #Gothic, Brontë joins our #NigelKneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: ANDREW SCREEN @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts, contributor to @forteantimes.bsky.social, @horrified.bsky.social & more, he's on our Nigel Kneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

A very happy 35 years to @headpress.com!🎉🙌 Join the celebrations for a fantastic day of author talks, panels, music and a very special guest... All on May 23rd! 📅

Today: proofing the updated edition of @davidkerekes.bsky.social's Sex Murder Art, ready for our special event in May featuring Jörg Buttgereit! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

We're delighted that TWO Headpress authors have been nominated in this year's Rondo Awards, for Book of the Year (non-fiction)! Congratulations to Chris Alexander and Robert Guffey 🎉 #indiepublishing #cultcinema See the full list of nominees and cast your votes here: rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...

Me and others talking AI in the publishing industry. Thanks to Amelie Tompsett and the Mancunion.

Thank you to @ruemorguemag.bsky.social for this great interview with @headpress.com author Nick Cato about his new book, Dark Dreams: An Obsessive Look at Romano Scavolini's Nightmare! #newbooks #filmbooks #horrorfam #vhs #videonasty rue-morgue.com/recollection...

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

Headpress is 35 years old! To celebrate the continued vibrancy of #indiepublishing, join us for a day of talking about music and films + a Q&A with Jörg Buttgereit: ⏰ 23 May 2026, 10.00 - 5.30 (UK time) 📍 International Anthony Burgess Foundation, #Manchester 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

I’ll be at @headpress.com’s 35th anniversary event in Manchester on 23 May. Check out details below!

#ThrowbackThursday Interview with @headpress.com David Kerekes, regarding the book he wrote with David Slater -Cannibal Error. The truly definitive and wholly fascinating chronicling of the so-called ‘video nasties’ phenomenon/era. #VideoNasties #horrorfilms bit.ly/4eLg2I0

Just under a month to go until @accordingtojond.bsky.social's talk/Q&A about his forthcoming book on the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, as part of the UK Ghost Story Festival 2026. Derby Quad, 28 February, 6.30pm. Tickets: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/nodig...

Here's a short photo article on my recent visit to Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Exhibition in London. @headpress.com #darksecrets #horror #folklore headpress.com/blog/2026/01...

Robert Guffey appears in Adam Gorightly and Christopher Graybill's new documentary, Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/pre-...

On the 10th anniversary of Melissa Mora Hidalgo's Mozlandia, we revisit a #Morrissey themed karaoke night in LA in this extract from Chapter 2 of the book: headpress.com/blog/2026/01...

Some nice coverage for Edwin Lee Canfield's book on Criswell: "A must-read for fans of cult heroics with noirish tendencies." larquepress.com/2026/01/16/c...

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Afternoon listening: Robert Guffey on Ravenstar's Witching Hour, with a deep dive into the history of esoteric cinema: cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/12/holl...

Happy New Year! And the happiest of New Year news is that Rachel Walther's Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made #DogDayAfternoon, will be published this March 🎉 More info and mailing list sign-up here: headpress.com/product/born...

Unboxing Hollywood Haunts the World... cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/12/unbo...

Says @williamshatner.bsky.social: “Richard Matheson was a quiet genius. He wrote effortlessly and continually. I didn’t know him well but what I did know he was a lovely gentleman and hugely talented. I enjoyed doing his scripts so much and he hit such truths that they still live.”

My new book project revealed!

Happy New Year, Offbeaters! Kick-off 2026 the right way by catching The Appointment on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 9.55pm! @headpress.com

For those who've left their Christmas shopping to the last minute: all of these books (and many more) are available as e-books on our website for immediate download! 🎄🎁🎄 headpress.com/shop/

Brilliant to see William Burns' Ghost of an Idea make Shindig! magazine's Top 10 Books of 2025! In at number 6, in excellent company with Lynda Nead at number 5 🎉 #hauntology #filmbooks #booksof2025 #folkhorror

To avoid disappointment on #Christmas day, make sure you get your orders in to the Headpress website by 5 December (tomorrow)! 🎄 #indiepublishing #supportindiepublishing #shopindependent headpress.com/shop/

Two events coming up soon of interest to @headpress.com fans! The first, this weekend, is Darkness in the Fields - Midwinter 2: two days of online writing workshops and author interviews, including Robert Guffey, author of Hollywood Haunts the World. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-i...

Sidney Lumet knew how to open a goddamn movie

London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film. #histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...

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

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.

🖤 We're so pleased to be publishing this!