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Anyone in London who fancies an evening of great entertainment, please join us this Friday at the Phoenix Cinema East Finchley, where Blaxploitation Cinema author Josiah Howard will be introducing a rare screening of COFFY! Book signing / Q&A after the film... www.phoenixcinema.co.uk/PhoenixCinem...

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Elsa Lanchester: Bride of the Hunchback Special Edition, signed by the author and with a first of its kind page edge printing design, is now on Pre-Order. 20 Years in the making, and ready to ship in November, the Special Edition is only available direct from FAB Press. Full info: www.fabpress.com

This is fun. FAB Press author Tom Mes took the opportunity whilst in London for the launch of his book The @frightfest.bsky.social Guide to Japanese Horror Movies, to put together a little film with @arrowvideo.bsky.social. Nice plug for the book at the end. Enjoy... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq4q...

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Great to see The Creeping Garden on Amazon Prime here in the UK. If you love slime moulds, you'll love this. If you don't love slime moulds, you will... #myxomycetes #slimemold #slimemould www.primevideo.com/detail/0JKV5...

ELSA LANCHESTER Bride of the Hunchback by M.J. Simpson can now be Pre-Ordered! The limited collectors edition with printed page edges & individually numbered signature plate autographed by the author is available exclusively direct from FAB Press www.fabpress.com/elsa-lanchester-limited-edition.html

We're proud to unveil cover art for M.J. Simpson’s new book 'Elsa Lanchester: Bride of the Hunchback' courtesy of artist Jason Heeley. Pre-Orders for the Collector’s Edition - with stunning page edge printing - start @ fabpress.com from 10am UK time on Thurs 1st Oct, Pre-Order URL here at that time.

The perfect way to end another great day at Fantastic Fest? Getting home to contributor copies! Major thanks to Tom Mes for including my essay on J-Horror’s linguistic origins in his exhaustively researched and entertaining guide to Japanese horror movies!

Every single copy of the new FrightFest Guide to Japanese Horror Movies we brought along to the festival has been sold. Pre-Orders ship this coming week. And don’t worry, we’ve printed enough for further online sales! www.fabpress.com

Tom Mes signing his new book @frightfest.bsky.social Guide to Japanese Horror Films. Second signing session Saturday 5:15pm, and again 8:15-9:00pm

Tom Mes official @frightfest.bsky.social launch 2:30pm at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

Tom Mes has arrived at @frightfest.bsky.social and Sadako is here too! Official book launch 2:30pm Friday 28th at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

House of Psychotic Women is being re-issued in large format hardcover, Blaxploitation Cinema is being re-issued in paperback, and Behind the Pink Curtain is back in print! All this news and more is covered in the August FAB Press newsletter: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

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New episode of Writers on Film features Kier-La Janisse on Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter and The House of Psychotic Women @kierlajanisse.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

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Interview with noted genre commentator/ author Jasper Sharp. It focuses on the Japanese film genre of Roman Porno, which often took a more creative and inventive take on sleaze. @88films.bsky.social, @thirdwindowfilms.com, #klubbsuper8, @fabpress.bsky.social www.musiquemachine.com/articles/cre...

Here are some more titles in my haul from @fabpress.bsky.social 😍 Both of these are written by the amazing @broigle.bsky.social and they are absolutely fantastic 🥰 #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky #Horror #HorrorSky #Italian #Exploitation #Books

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One of discosploitation’s most pedigreed titles was this gritty 1979 UK favorite directed by Ian Sharp (THE FINAL OPTION) and written by James Kenelm Clarke (HOUSE ON STRAW HILL) with cinematography by Phil Meheux (CASINO ROYALE), [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/kmv1MK-PwbM

Had a chunky delivery from the amazing @fabpress.bsky.social today! A lot of the delivery is for my birthday so those photos will have to wait 😢😅 But feast your eyes upon these until then! 😍🤣 #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky #Horror #HorrorSky #Exploitation #Sexploitation #Adult #Books

Our friend Alan Jones is a legendary genre journalist, punk rock pioneer and unapologetic disco fan. All of this and then some comes together in his knockout new book Discomania: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them from Fab Press.

Yup, it’s happening.

Today at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary 4:00pm co-presented by Calgary Underground FF! I'll be talking about our Robert Downey Sr. book w/ some clips + reading from my book COCKFIGHT. The store will have these and other books in stock, like SATANIC PANIC, HOPW + YULETIDE TERROR!

Renate Reinsve name-drops my book in the new @sightsoundmag.bsky.social !

Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio director) showing some love for DISCOMANIA: "A deliriously dizzy blend of memoir and the wider cultural craziness of the ‘70s - bathhouses, giallo, disco and punk." The super shiny signed Special Edition is still available… www.fabpress.com/discomania-s...

Stellar line-up at Abertoir this year. FAB Press will be there. Come and say hello. And if you can only put aside one day we’d strongly suggest the Friday, which will be crowned with an epic Simon Boswell stage production, full live band, projections, light show and all.

Still time to book a trip to Aberystwyth! Come along to the amazing Abertoir horror festival, experience the Simon Boswell live show (standalone tickets for this event only £15.00!), and check out the FAB Press stall while you’re there!… abertoir.co.uk/event/aberto...

We've found a few boxes of rare signed books, all of which have been unavailable for some time. They're now back in stock at our web store. Also on Pre-Order now, the epic new Little Shoppe of Horrors, plus a new Creepy Images Anthology. Check out our newsletter here: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Last chance to grab a ticket for this momentous event tonight!

Two days till Hisayasu Sato's nightmarish tale of gore and grotesquery REWIND / CELLULOID NIGHTMARES premieres in pristine new restoration in London @thenickelcinema.bsky.social Thurs 16th at 6:30pm with my intro + Behind the Pink Curtain book signing ticketlab.app/event/35372#/

And coming to London's Nickel Cinema next week on 16th Oct. @thenickelcinema.bsky.social thenickel.co.uk

Behind the Pink Curtain book signing with me and UK premiere of the new restoration of Hisayasu Sato's RE-WIND / CELLULOID NIGHTMARES / ABNORMAL INGYAKU Thurs 16th October 2025, at London's @thenickelcinema.bsky.social - book here for a night you won't soon forget! ticketlab.app/event/35372#/

We’re thrilled to announce that FAB Press author Josiah Howard (Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide) will interview Fred "The Hammer" Williamson onstage in Los Angeles, following a screening of BLACK CAESAR on Tuesday September 23! Here’s the info: thefridacinema.org/movies/black...

It's raining, I'm making hot chocolate, my cat is being super cuddly and the postman just delivered these. I couldn't dream up a more perfect day. Thank you to Fab Press, Bubbles and Jasper. @fabpress.bsky.social @jaspersharp.bsky.social

To celebrate passes going on sale we've unveiled... Classic films - The Keep, Phenomena, The Crazies… Premieres - Touch Me, Bokshi, Theatre of Horrors… Special guests - Simon Boswell (performing live!), Lynn Lowry, Victoria Price… …and more! Read all about it: abertoir.co.uk/news/boswell...

Passes for Abertoir 2025 will go on sale from 12pm, 12th September! The full festival pass will be £85, and includes all special events. Full details, including other ticket options on sale at a later date, are on our website. abertoir.co.uk/tickets/

Ten years ago yesterday, I was at BFI Southbank for the launch of the FAB Press book The Act Of Seeing with the book's authors, Nicolas Winding Refn and the fabulous @alanfrightfest.bsky.social ... #NicolasWindingRefn #TheActOfSeeing #BFI #BFISouthbank

Day 5 of @frightfest.bsky.social 2025 features the 4th and final book signing of the weekend. @alanfrightfest.bsky.social will be signing copies of his epic autobiography Discomania (plus other books of Alan’s inc. Starburst and his FrightFest Guides). 5:00pm-6:00pm, upstairs Odeon Leicester Square.

Day 4 of @frightfest.bsky.social 2025 features the 3rd of 4 signing sessions this bank holiday weekend. @jaspersharp.bsky.social will be signing copies of the Updated and Amended re-issue of his acclaimed book Behind the Pink Curtain. 2:30pm-3:30pm upstairs at the Odeon Leicester Square.

Day 3 of FrightFest 2025 features the second of four signing sessions this bank holiday weekend. Meet Mancunian Man documentary director Jake West and Blu-ray box set producer Marc Morris, who will be signing copies of the new Cliff Twemlow collection, Bloody Legend. 5pm-6pm.

Day 2 of @frightfest.bsky.social 2025 features the first of 4 signing sessions this bank holiday weekend. I’ll be hosting author John Hamilton at the FAB Press stall in the Odeon Leicester Square as we reissue his acclaimed Tony Tenser book Beasts in the Cellar. 5pm-6pm.

We’re set up at FrightFest, and here’s our schedule for this year’s guest signing sessions. Looking forward to seeing everyone over the coming days.

A rave review for my latest book COCKFIGHT in @sightsoundmag.bsky.social!! Now available from @fabpress.bsky.social and in regular distribution catalogues in North America courtesy of SCB. So grateful for such a thoughtful piece, I've been lucky with the few reviews it's gotten so far.

The Beasts in the Cellar re-issue is shipping soon! We're taking delivery of books this coming week, and all Pre-Orders will ship the first week of August. Limited number of copies come with an original Tony Tenser autograph! Pre-Order now direct from FAB Press: www.fabpress.com/books/forthc...

The updated 3rd edition of Behind the Pink Curtain is out from @fabpress.bsky.social in a few weeks and to mark the occasion, @guyadams.bsky.social chatted with me about pink films, @88films.bsky.social Roman Porno releases and other stuff for Blueprint: Review blueprintreview.co.uk/2025/07/inte...

My book Sonic Sewer got four out of five stars in the brand new issue of Shindig!! "completely snobbery free" wrote reviewer, Peter Gallagher, who went on to call it "a hugely fun labor of love". You can buy Sonic Sewer in better bookstores everywhere, as well as from cinemasewer.storenvy.com