Iphgenia Baal, BLACK SKULLS
A3 Size (297 x 420 mm)
16pp
RRP: £10
Publication Date: 1st April 2026
ISBN: 978-1-915049-34-6
 
How do you like this game? Black Scholes requires Black Skulls for invasive operation. Literary publishing is dead, deaf, dead, on the defensive.
 
A giant book that can be torn apart as posters, reassembled, reinvented and remixed. Written straight into inDesign, in this mash up text-visual playground, IB approaches all the BS, reaching out towards the ABCs that might have been. Start ripping!
 
The publication comes with an accompanying sound piece, a collaboration between Iphgenia Baal and FORSYTH which you can access through the physical publication and here. 
 
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PRAISE for Black Skulls: 
 
I just read Iphgenia Baal’s Black Skulls and now I don’t know how to read any more, and I probably never did. After reading it I googled the Book of Kells and I don’t know why. Black Skulls is about as revelatory on the contemporary hegemonic death-money-cult, its subjugation, biopower, and exploitation as anything could be. “Rather be real and hated, than fake and loved?” This could be the realest writing ever - but I feel ok saying you’ll love it. There’s a collaborative audio track with FORSYTH too, which stopped me dead in my tracks.
– Colin Herd, AQUAFABA (Spite Press, 2026)
 
About the author
iphgenia baal is a writer. she was born in london but now lives in scotland with her new family. she is the author of several books, the first being the hardy tree and the most recent being man hating psycho. she is a enthusiastic producer of print ephemera and collaborative work. she is currently working on a series of books for children, with artist fanny wickstrom.