Headpress: 35 books
Blood+Death
The Secret History of Santa Muerte and the Mexican Drug Cartels
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The White Sister… The Bony Lady… The Godmother… The Pretty Girl… This is Santa Muerte, personification of death. A veiled skeleton with an unquenchable thirst for destruction, Santa Muerte is Mexico’s grim and vengeful goddess. She is worshipped by outcasts and sinners,...
Blood In, Blood Out
The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
For the first time, ex-convict John Lee Brook subjects the Aryan Brotherhood to a devastating exposé, revealing how the notorious white supremacist prison gang has become perhaps the most powerful criminal organization in America, an achievement much more remarkable considering that the majority...
Conspiracy Cinema
Propaganda, Politics and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The only guide to this emerging genre of cinema. Still marginalized by mainstream media, conspiracy theories are a growing influence on the contemporary political imagination, thanks to internet distribution of conspiracy cinema documentaries presenting conspiratorial explanations everything from 9/11...
Bizarrism Vol 1
the revised and expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including:...
by Chris Mikul, Glenn Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook writer, adventurer, cannibal. •...
Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine
A Lifetime's Collected Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
You cannot believe a word Mick Farren tells you!†John Lydon A literary life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry and more. Mick Farren has spent more than 4 decades in the thick of the culture wars as a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer,...
Subversive
Interviews with Radicals
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Subversive is a book of interviews with fifty-two of the most radical people in the world. From all walks of life, some are famous, while others are almost completely unknown. These are people different to the rest of us. They want the world to change, and they are doing things to change it. Some...
Beneath Contempt & Happy To Be There
The Fighting Life of Porn King Al Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The full, amazing sordid, riches to rags story of self-made sultan of Times Square, Al Goldstein ruled over his mythic realm of sin and corruption for decades, chronicling its forbidden pleasures in the pages of his trailblazing sex paper Screw. The overweight cab driver and welfare recipient and...
The Law of Chaos
The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“This new book, the latest Moorcockian meteorite to flash across the heavens, is a timely reminder of the scope, depth, heart and magnificence of an author with numerous readers, bright-eyed fans, global correspondents, but far less mainstream acknowledgement than he deserves. The glory of the...
Discombobulated
Dispatches from the Wrong Side
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
It was only the warm up night, but long ago I lost the ability to set my disco dial to moderate lunacy or even slight mayhem; long ago that switch snapped and now I'm stuck permanently on DISCO BONKERS. From Las Vegas to Moscow, New York to Shanghai, DISCOMBOBULATED features fifty unbelievably true...
Spinegrinder
The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden...
Cult People
Tales from Hollywood’s Exploitation A-list
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
CULT PEOPLE features a selection of interviews, conducted by Nicanor Loreti, with many of the world’s most fascinating and renowned stars of crossover and cult cinema, including amazing first-hand accounts of the making of ALIENS, SUSPIRIA, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET & countless other classic pictures....
by Mark Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
“The Mondo Cane films were an important key to what was going on in the media landscape of the 1960s, especially post the JFK assassination. Nothing was true, and nothing was untrue…” J G Ballard Being the first ever English-language title devoted exclusively to the controversial and influential...
Joy Devotion
The Importance of Ian Curtis and Fan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Joy Devotion: The Importance of Ian Curtis and fan culture explores the lasting legacy in the fan, post-punk and dot.com economy of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, and what such dedication says about the larger issues facing us in a modern world. Essays on Curtis, exploring ideas of memory, death,...