I had a lovely (if hot) time in Manchester yesterday thanks to @headpress.com and @filmisfabulous.bsky.social. A day that involved chatting with amazing filmmakers, catching up with old friends and finished with a pizza with Peter Purves. Pizza Purves.

Thank you very much to everyone who came to see me, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social and @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social discuss Nigel Kneale at @anthonyburgess.bsky.social on a humid Saturday morning for @headpress.com’s 35th anniversary celebration yesterday - what a joy! 🚀

Congrats on 35, David. I'll celebrate from a Denver distance...

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!

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

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.

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...

Unsentimental and darkly comic, in A Brooklyn Memoir, Robert Rosen transports us to the mid-twentieth-century Brooklyn of his youth “where the war lingered like a mass hallucination.” Read the story behind the book here: oilonwaterpress.com/blog/2022/07...

Packaging afternoon, these Buttgereit postcard sets look gorgeous 😍

Not long now!

Books, books, beautiful books! Fancy some brand new memoir reads? Taking you everywhere from New York’s meatpacking district to the rocky roads of the Spanish Pyrenees, check out our online store here: oilonwaterpress.com/shop/

An interview with me on Britflicks, discussing 3 personally pivotal movies! Thankyou Britflicks.

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!

Picked up two amazing art books today. One featuring the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the other a collection of street-scene photographs by Alex Schneideman, 'Want More.' The former you probably know. The latter, too. #photographs #pre-raphaelites

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

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

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

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 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