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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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🎈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-...

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.

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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PIXIES - Gouge Away (Exceptional performance) YouTube video by HASAH

This phenomenal version of Gouge Away is our office listening today. #pixies

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🎈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-...

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’.

From Fiona Richmond to Throbbing Gristle, and Christina Lindberg to Crass, Mark Goodall's latest Gathering of the Tribe volume is out now!

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#newbooks #vinyl #occult #esoteric #booksaboutmusic

Very much looking forward to this.

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🎈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

House of Dreams 2026 Subscribers: This is NOT included in your Subscription. If you'd like to purchase it, you will need to login to view your special 50% off SRP pricing. This listing is for the standard edition Blu

This New Bleeding Skull looks interesting and seems certain to sell out:
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Book indexing: an actual job

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

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Happy Easter, kids! We're on a little Easter break but stay tuned next week for new book news and to meet more of our 35th anniversary panelists.

Wishing all our authors and readers too much chocolate, and may your Easter bunnies be non-terrifying! 🐇🐇🐇

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🎈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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🎈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

Image of the book cover, which is mostly pink and features rows of plush Hello Kitty toys on shelves. Each plush Kitty is identical, with a pink dress, pink bow, and gold crown.

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...

The author shelf is looking pretty stacked these days. My books, including a few publications I've contributed to.

@leverpress.bsky.social
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
@bullshitlit.bsky.social
@headpress.com
📽️

#booksky, #books, #reading, #shelfie, #Filmsky

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🎈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-...

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🎈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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🎈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-...

Folkestone is a Library: World's Largest Book Swap - Creative Folkestone

Folkestone at 2pm today - bring a book to swap - I’ve got a few in my bag - let’s get a proper library open again

www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/fol...

Mathew Owen | Speech Writer | Manchester Bespoke wedding speeches from a professional comedy writer.

If you know anyone who’s dreading putting together their wedding speech - send them my way! www.mathew-owen.co.uk

If you can re-post this I’d really appreciate it 👍

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🎈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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🎈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-...

Photo of a desk with the edge of a keyboard visible, a green notebook, a cup of coffee, a pen, and a copy of Nekromantik on VHS.

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-...

Frankenstein (Or The Modern Prometheus): The Horror Of Being: A My Life In Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is more than gothic horror. This analysis unpacks its brutal themes: consciousness, creation, and the moral weight of bringing life into being.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein isn’t about hubris. It’s about the horror of having existence forced upon you, finding no answer for why, and watching your creator recoil from the reflection of their own sin. Two centuries later, we’re still afraid to ask the question.

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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.

We're an indie publisher but very proud to be celebrating our 35th anniversary this year with an event in #Manchester! Upcoming books include a comprehensive look at Richard Matheson's work by @goanthonytaylor.bsky.social 🎊
##indiepublishing

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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! 📅

The text reads: 'Headpress is proud to announce two new titles are nominated in the 24th annual Rondo Awards BOOK OF THE YEAR (non-fiction): Chris Alexander ART! TRASH! TERROR!, Robert Guffey HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD.' At the top and bottom of this central text are portions of each book's cover.

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...

A welcome dose of realism and positivity here - I’m desperately hoping this will be the trajectory

AI and the publishing industry: Can human creativity keep up? - The Mancunion Talking to independent publishers about the future of literature and the rise of AI-generated content.

We're in good company alongside @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @commapress.bsky.social in this article about the impact of #AI on the #publishing industry, by Amelie Tompsett for the Mancunion.
#indiepublishing #indiepublishers

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