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Headpress Book HEADPRESS Ghost of an Idea Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia William Burns
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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That intimate lil headpress maneuver has been in my brain for sometime.

The doggy style was a means to an end.
June 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Happy Halloween from the Headpress team!
October 31, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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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
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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 29, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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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-...
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April 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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If you're in #Manchester today, pop in to listen to a panel or buy some books! Tickets available on the door.

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#indiepublishing #indiepublisher
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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 23, 2026 at 6:47 AM
accordingtojond.bsky.social
As it’s the anniversary of Miller’s Whistle, have a read of this:
Whistle Down The Wind — An Extract From No Diggin’ Here
A prelude to Jon Dear’s much anticipated Headpress book, No Diggin’ Here, on the history of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.
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May 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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FYI, this account has nothing to do with us. There is only one Headpress 💪
November 22, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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The news is out on my next feature documentary project, working w/ dream-team of Severin Films + Headpress
- read the details here: www.kierlajanisse.com/2024/02/05/s...
February 5, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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FINAL BALLOT IS OUT YR GIRL IS OFFICIALLY A BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE LET’S FUCKIN GOOOOO
Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction • Bogutskaya, Anna - Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us (Faber & Faber) Dauber, Jeremy —American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) • Honeycutt, Heidi - 1 Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (HeadPress) • Hughes, Emily C. - Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (Quirk Books) • Sachar, Cassandra O'Sullivan, ed. - No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes (Vernon Press)
February 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Would you like to read an exclusive extract from my forthcoming book? Of course you would! @headpress.bsky.social

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Whistle Down The Wind — An Extract From No Diggin’ Here
A prelude to Jon Dear’s much anticipated Headpress book, No Diggin’ Here, on the history of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.
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December 4, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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William Burns has been kind enough to read some extracts from his #newbook, Ghost of an Idea: #Hauntology, #FolkHorror and the Spectre of Nostalgia, for us. Listen to all of the extracts here: vimeo.com/headpress

#hauntology #authors #horror
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Headpress was founded in Manchester, England, in 1991, ostensibly to release a film by cult German director Jörg Buttgereit on VHS. With revenue from the sales…
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April 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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!
headpress.com Headpress @headpress.com · May 24
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 🎊
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May 24, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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your girl is ON THE STOKER AWARD LONGLIST oh my god oh my god oh my god I’m hyperventilating
Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction Bogutskaya, Anna - Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us (Faber & Faber) Brewster, Scott and Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew - The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story (Routledge) Stephen King an Beeria gonquin Hiss of hopel Him Salem 10 Pops, Fils (University old of Dame PTe Hidden Depths of Honeycutt, Heidi - I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (HeadPress) Hughes, Emily C. - Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (Quirk Books) McOuat, Allyson - The Call Is Coming from Inside the House (ECW Press O'Sullivan Sachar, Cassandra, ed. - No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes (Vernon Press) Riekki, Ron and Wetmore Kevin J., Jr., eds. — The Many Lives of the Purge: Essays on the Horror Franchise (McFarland & Company, Inc.) Shultz, Erica - The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film (Self-Published)
January 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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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-...
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April 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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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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March 30, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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Today marks the publication date of my latest book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS, courtesy of Headpress! cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/11/holl...

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#garydrhodes
#occultcinema
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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O’Conor of course plays O’Brien in 1984.

A nice little through line from 1984 to Lost Hearts and part of the rich tapestry of BBC Productions.

Lots more of this stuff in the book, which will be published by Headpress. (4/4).
Joseph O’Conor as O’Brien in 1984.
June 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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

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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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 15, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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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
April 2, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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NEW WORK:
I contributed a chapter—
"Spider Baby — Loving the Maddest Story Ever Told; Or, Making Merrye While We May" by Stephen R. Bissette—
to this new book on filmmaker Jack Hill:
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JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill
JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill, a Headpress book edited by Anthony Taylor
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September 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Headpress is celebrating 35 years of books on cults films, TV and music with a one day event.
I will be on the panel The Kneale Inheritance discussing the influence of Nigel Kneale with @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @accordingtojond.bsky.social
headpress.com Headpress @headpress.com · Mar 4
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-...
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.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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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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March 27, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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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: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...
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April 13, 2026 at 7:49 AM