Headpress – still great. And a bit gross.
 
While many of us own an edition or two of the Headpress Journal – the gloriously gory counter-cultural anthology that’s been running since 1992 – fewer are likely to be aware that it was reborn in late 2010 in the form of a completely free, quarterly ezine, alongside a stamped, numbered, fully illustrated hardcover available only from Headpress themselves for a LOL-worthy £10 (US postage just a couple of dollars also)….

This week’s release of the sixth in the series – Headpress 2.6 – enables everyone to get up to speed. It’s a bumper edition, clocking in at over a hundred pages of Grand Guignol mayhem, and featuring articles on the modern horror theatre, Times Square meltdown in the 1970s, Feral House, RE/Search, Philip K Dick, Cracked magazine, and more. (Readers may also come upon the third instalment of my own Nasty Mirrors: Writers I’ve Known series.)

Asked whether Headpress had anything so vulgar as an ethos, editor and co-founder David Kerekes remarked: “Depends what you mean by ethos. Unpopular ideas have always been attractive to me.”