CJ Leede & Kyle Kouri present Headlights & The Problem Drinker

About Headlights

Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.

Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it's happening again.

Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they've allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger’s hair is tied around their tongue.

Now Daniel is pulled back into the gruesome cycle, and every clue leads him deeper into the shadows of his own past. He will have to confront the ghosts of his traumatic childhood and face what’s been hunting him all along— before he and the people he loves become the next victims.

About The Problem Drinker

His girlfriend is horror famous, his own writing and acting is floundering, and he is drinking to make sense of it all.

Kyle Kouri's debut non-fiction collection is full of 'whiskey courage' staring at the abyss of family, writing rejection, relationships, and his own drinking. From hijinks at AWP to hustling in the movie business, Kouri bridges the gap in drama between indie and horror.

At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, The Problem Drinker is the story of an artist living with another artist, yearning to move the needle in his career, amidst a sea of personal tragedies and comedies. If F. Scott Fitzgerald had one foot in the 2020s horror scene, that's the spirit of Kouri's caustic and big-hearted, lush and refreshingly candid debut.

This is a ticketed event through Eventbrite. Your ticket options include:

• One entry and one copy of Headlights to be handed out at check-in.
• One entry and one copy of The Problem Drinker to be handed out at check-in.
• One entry a copy Headlights & The Problem Drinker to be handed out at check-in.

A book signing will follow the presentation.

Questions? email [email protected] or call us at (626)449-5320

As a special lead up to the event, we will have special themed cocktails in the wine bar from June 8-16 and a non-alcoholic drink to-go served on event day!

Available June 8-16 (must be 21+ to enter the wine bar):

• $15 TONGUE TIED: Clarified coconut lemongrass sake with lime & pineapple, served with a syringe of hibiscus tea
• $15 THE PROBLEM: Mezcal negroni with a smoked orange

Available June 16th ONLY (served to-go on the side of the wine bar starting at 3pm):

• $10 THE DRIP: A transfusion of ginger, lemon & hibiscus served to-go in a blood bag