A feature-length experimental documentary, exploring the history of alternative publishing
in Manchester, UK. Click to view the video.
Savoy Books is an independent publishing house based above a locksmith shop in the South Manchester district of Didsbury, founded and run by Michael Butterworth and David Britton. In 1989 they published Lord Horror, the last book to be banned in the UK under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. It was in part a response to Britton’s time spent in Strangeways prison, and Savoy’s constant persecution by the corrupt police force at the time.
Now have a look at Keith Seward’s penetrating book-length essay, Horror Panegyric, about (and including excerpts from) the three Lord Horror novels produced by Britton and Butterworth.
