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Writer. Publisher. Headpress
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🎈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-...
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🎈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:
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🎈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-...
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I am honoured and excited to see this translate to the screen!
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6 days ago
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
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Offbeat (Revised & Updated)
Acclaimed history of British cinema delves into films that other books on the subject have overlooked or avoided. With more than 150 pages of new material.
https://headpress.com/product/offbeat-revised-updated/
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6 days ago
🎈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:
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7 days ago
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
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Gathering of the Tribe: Sex
A book series that offers a practical guide to the ultimate occult record collection. Records discussed in Vol 3 explore a form of ‘living action’.
https://headpress.com/product/gathering-of-the-tribe-sex/
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7 days ago
🎈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:
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8 days ago
🎈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:
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Oil On Water Press
11 days ago
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
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Michael Backus, Author | Recordings
Michael Backus, author and published writer of stories, articles and film.
https://www.michaeljbackus.com/recordings
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Headpress
13 days ago
🎈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-...
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Anthony Taylor
13 days ago
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
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14 days ago
🎈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
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14 days ago
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...
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15 days ago
🎈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:
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16 days ago
🎈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-...
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18 days ago
🎈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:
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19 days ago
🎈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-...
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19 days ago
🎈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:
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Turnaround Books
21 days ago
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! 📅
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20 days ago
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-...
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23 days ago
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...
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Me and others talking AI in the publishing industry. Thanks to Amelie Tompsett and the Mancunion.
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about 1 month ago
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
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Recollections From A Rotting Brain: Author Nick Cato Talks "DARK DREAMS: AN OBSESSIVE LOOK AT ROMANO SCAVOLINI'S 'NIGHTMARE'" - Rue Morgue
Experience the 1981 cult favorite slasher through the eyes of its most dedicated fan in the new book from Headpress.
https://rue-morgue.com/recollections-from-a-rotting-brain-author-nick-cato-talks-dark-dreams-nightmare/
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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.. 🧵
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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
🔗
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Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza
Join us for a day of author talks and panels celebrating cult films and TV, weird music, and a Q&A with special guest Jörg Buttgereit.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-35th-anniversary-extravaganza-tickets-1589843307129
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Jon Dear
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I’ll be at
@headpress.com
’s 35th anniversary event in Manchester on 23 May. Check out details below!
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Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza
Join us for a day of author talks and panels celebrating cult films and TV, weird music, and a Q&A with special guest Jörg Buttgereit.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-35th-anniversary-extravaganza-tickets-1589843307129?utm_experiment=test_share_listing
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2 months ago
#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
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2 months ago
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...
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No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s Ghost Story at Christmas - Jon Dear Interview | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s Ghost Story at Christmas - Jon Dear Interview. See what the available times are for this event.
https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/nodigging/
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Here's a short photo article on my recent visit to Dark Secrets: The Esoteric Exhibition in London.
@headpress.com
#darksecrets
#horror
#folklore
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Dark Secrets The Esoteric Exhibition
Cursed dolls and rogue scientific experiments, David Kerekes reports back from Dark Secrets in London, an exhibition devoted to all things occult and esoteric.
https://headpress.com/blog/2026/01/19/dark-secrets-the-esoteric-exhibition/
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3 months ago
Robert Guffey appears in Adam Gorightly and Christopher Graybill's new documentary, Saucers, Spooks and Kooks:
cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/pre-...
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Pre-order Adam Gorightly & Christopher Graybill's SAUCERS, SPOOKS AND KOOKS!
I just finished watching Adam Gorightly and Christopher Graybill's new documentary SAUCERS, SPOOKS AND KOOKS (based on Gorightly's 2021 bo...
https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2026/01/pre-order-adam-gorightly-christopher.html?m=1
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3 months ago
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...
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Boyle Heights, You Are Too Hot: Singing Your Life at MorrisseyOke
With the release of a new solo album from Morrissey, amid tour dates (some cancelled), Melissa Mora Hidalgo visits a popular karaoke theme night in East LA.
https://headpress.com/blog/2026/01/16/boyle-heights-you-are-too-hot-singing-your-life-at-morrisseyoke/
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Headpress
3 months ago
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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Criswell
Fact, Fictions, and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell by Edwin Lee Canfield The life and times of showman prognosticator Jeron Criswell revealed through friends, appearances, and am…
https://larquepress.com/2026/01/16/criswell/
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3 months ago
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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...
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HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on RavenStar's Witching Hour!
On November 8, 2025, Solaris Blue Raven interviewed me on her podcast , Ravenstar's Witching Hour . You can hear the entire show at the b...
https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/12/hollywood-haunts-world-on-ravenstars_92.html
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3 months ago
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...
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Born To Lose The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon
Born To Lose is a book about the making of Dog Day Afternoon and the crazy, true-crime story that inspired it.
https://headpress.com/product/born-to-lose/
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3 months ago
Unboxing Hollywood Haunts the World...
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UNBOXING HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD!
https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/12/unboxing-hollywood-haunts-world.html
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Headpress
3 months ago
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.”
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Anthony Taylor
3 months ago
My new book project revealed!
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Richard Luck
3 months ago
Happy New Year, Offbeaters! Kick-off 2026 the right way by catching The Appointment on
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
tonight at 9.55pm!
@headpress.com
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Headpress
4 months ago
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/
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4 months ago
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
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Headpress
4 months ago
To avoid disappointment on
#Christmas
day, make sure you get your orders in to the Headpress website by 5 December (tomorrow)! 🎄
#indiepublishing
#supportindiepublishing
#shopindependent
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Headpress
4 months ago
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...
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Darkness in the Fields - Midwinter 2
Join us for two days of online folk horror events, with workshops and interview from an exciting variety of writers in the genre.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/darkness-in-the-fields-midwinter-2-tickets-1405755635949
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
5 months ago
Sidney Lumet knew how to open a goddamn movie
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Dog Day Afternoon opening - "What you are about to see is true---"
YouTube video by m
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Headpress
5 months ago
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...
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"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Exploring film, folklore, and media, this lecture asks why female rage is pathologised while male violence remains disturbingly normalised.
https://miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-asylum-and-its-patients-on-film/
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Headpress
5 months ago
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
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6 months ago
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.
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🖤 We're so pleased to be publishing this!
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