Hadean Press Limited is a UK based small press producing some of the most exciting titles in modern occultism, publishing academic and independent scholarship in the areas of folklore, folk magic, and spellbooks. Hadean Press was established in 2008 in West Yorkshire, UK, at the beginning of the solar year. Never oblivious to rising talent, in the years since its founding Hadean has introduced up and coming international authors to a discerning public, as well as bringing new offerings from more established but non-establishment authors, including Jake Stratton-Kent, David Rankine, Dr Alexander Cummins, and many more. From Scandinavian trolldom to Brazilian Quimbanda, Renaissance necromancy or the art and craft of the goes, the Hadean catalogue caters to practitioners of magic as well to those curious about its long history.
Our Editions
Deluxe: only Erzebet’s extremely limited handbound books are considered deluxe editions (they are numbered).
Standard: this refers to our hardcover books which are generally litho printed, smyth-sewn, with no dust jacket, and are limited in number (they are not numbered limited editions, this refers to a limited first print run). We adhere to a high standard in the production of our standard editions. Other publishers might call this type of book a ‘fine edition’ however we use that phrase as a bookseller would, to refer to a book’s used but unmarked status.
POD: our paperbacks are printed using print-on-demand technology, and some of our hardbacks are too. They are perfect bound and have a dustjacket.
Epub: the digital edition. Please note an epub is not a pdf, and pdf readers will not open this file.
Who We Are
Managing Director: Erzebet Barthold is a member of the Independent Publishers Guild, the Societas Magica, and the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. She also manages Papaveria Press, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hadean Press dealing in mythic prose, poetry, and folklore. She has been involved in the industry in one form or another since 2001, as both an author and a publisher, and is currently a non-matriculated student in history at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.
Teams Manager: Chris Carr (aka Dis). Chris has a long history in the UK print industry, and has been a first-hand witness to the digital print revolution by first servicing and then supporting what Erzebet likes to call ‘battleship printers’, working for RICOH as a Production Print Specialist and finally Workflow Solutions Consultant at Konica Minolta. Now, in addition to his work for Hadean Press, he creates under the name Papa Hemlock.
Publishing Assistant: Lucy Greenwood is a member of Dragonoak, an active coven based in South Wales, and is particularly interested in eco-magick and folk magic. She holds an MA in English and her academic research is in the fields of ecocriticism, and post-apocalyptic and pastoral literature. Lucy is also the Community Liaison for Magickal Women & Company.
Finance Manager: Geoff Greenwood is Treasurer of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and has two decades of experience running the financial aspects of charity, events, and healthcare businesses, though his first employments were at local games shops where he developed his lifelong interest in fantasy, science-fiction, and RPGs, a library of which now robustly support the ceiling of his house. Genealogical research and presentation forms a final pillar of interest, rediscovering untold stories of historical individuals lost to time.
Assistant Editor: Brian Johnson is a freelance writer, translator, humanities scholar, and editor, with experience creating content for publications ranging from peer-reviewed academic journals to tabletop roleplaying games. A life-long gamer and reader of fantasy and speculative fiction, Brian has a keen interest in RPGs and other forms of entertainment as vehicles for storytelling and creative exploration, and he is focused on helping writers, game designers, and other innovative individuals realize their unique creative visions.
Proofreader/editor: Matt Moreash is a polymathic researcher, a former private investigator, and a graduate of the University of King’s College with honours in Social Anthropology. He is also a voracious reader, a lifelong student of human behaviour, and a firm advocate of the Oxford comma. He lives in a library amongst artifacts of collapse and destruction.
Social Media Manager: Rosa Laguna is an artist graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville in 2012 and a professional tattooist since 2013, working in international tattoo conventions like the Saint Brieuc Salon du Tatouage. She has also been interested in the occult and magic since an early age and she has a passion for exploring art and tattoos within an esoteric context, both in theory and practice. If you see something gorgeous go by on our Instagram, that is all Rosa.
Video Production Manager: Mat Hadfield is a freelance videographer, proofreader and language teacher living in Ehime, Japan. He graduated from Staffordshire University with honours in Film Production Technology in 2008 after focusing on becoming a visual-effects producer. He has since spent over a decade teaching English as a foreign language as a means to fund his explorations of Asia and his insatiable hunger for more books. Mat has a particular love for the Graeco-Egyptian and Grimoire strands of occult thought and practice.
Who we support
The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project is a long-term, independently-run archaeological project with the primary objective of investigating of the entire range of human settlement and land use in the north-west Norfolk parish of Sedgeford.
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