Friday 30 December 2016

Shades: Dark Tales of Supernatural Horror by Joseph Rubas to be published 7th January

Shades: Dark Tales of Supernatural Horror by Joseph Rubas is to be published by Parallel Universe Publications on the 7th January, 2017 - our first book of the New Year.

Joseph Rubas began writing in 2002 after reading Stephen King’s The Stand. His earliest efforts reflected his deep love of that novel; he tried again and again to write a rip-off, but finally gave up around 2006 and resigned himself to writing original fiction. His first short story was published in May 2010 on the now defunct Horror Bound Online website. His second story was published in September 2010 in a Pushcart Prize nominated literary magazine for new and beginning writers called The Storyteller. Since then, his work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. His first collection, the now out of print Pocketful of Fear, was released by a small publisher in 2012. His second collection, After Midnight, appeared in 2014. His short fiction has appeared in: Nameless Digest; The Horror Zine; Eschatology Journal; Thuglit; Manor House; All Due Respect, and others. He has self-published three longer works: The Rocking Dead: Seasons 1-3 (a parody of the AMC series The Walking Dead); The Rocking Dead: Season 4; The Shapeshifter; and Dracula 1912, the latter a novel.
In addition to writing, he has also edited two anthologies: A Thorn of Death (2012) and The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories (2016).
He currently resides in Albany, New York.
The collection includes:
Passing the Buck
Midnight
Aokigahara
Snowbound
Deja Vu
The Ghostly Hitchhiker
Just a Mask
Meeting Ray Bradbury
5051 Bartley Square
The Witching Hour
Potter's Field
The Warlock
Confessional
The Thing in the Woods
The Lake House
Chomo
The Traveling Show of 2016
Evildoer
A Perfect Life
Fury
Paint
Night of the Dog

Thursday 22 December 2016

New advert for Parallel Universe Publications

We will be starting the New Year with a brand new advert for Parallel Universe Publications:


Wednesday 21 December 2016

The Winter Hunt and Other Stories reviewed on the SFBook Reviews website by Mario Guslandi

Hot on the heels of the glowing review of Adrian Cole's Tough Guys in this month's issue of Fear, comes a great review by Mario Guslandi on the SFBook Reviews website for Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis's collection The Winter Hunt and Other Stories.
"Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis form a British writing duo ( although they also publish individually) whose work has been appearing in various genre anthologies during the years.

Fifteen of their tales of horror and terror are now assembled in an enjoyable collection from Parallel Universe. The overall quality of the stories is uncommonly high and quite remarkable."
"Standing examples of how dark fiction can become literature."
To see the full review please visit: https://sfbook.com/the-winter-hunt-and-other-stories.htm

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Adrian Cole's Tough Guys gets a great review in the brilliant new issue of Fear magazine

Issue 39 of Fear arrived in the post today, with a great review of Adrian Cole's collection Tough Guys, together with another full-page ad for Parallel Universe Publications. It also contains a fascinating interview of David A. Sutton and of the fantasy artist Morgan Fitzsimons, whose artwork decorates the front cover of this, the Yuletide issue.
The review of Tough Guys opens with: "There are some writers who deserve better: Better coverage, wider coverage, more PR, more reviews. Adrian Cole is one such, a diamond storyteller whose infectious style and humour just keep you reading. Indeed, his co-contributors to this collection, cover artist Jim Pitts and David A. Sutton, author of the Introduction, only work with the best."
It's great to see Fear magazine back in full steam, with this the third issue of the revived magazine that played such an important part in the horror scene of the 1980s.  Included in this packed issue are interviews and articles about Peter James, Susan Hill, The Twiligfht Zone, Nichelle Nichols, as well as the aforementioned interviews with David A. Sutton and Morgan Fitzsimons, who also has a generous number of full-page illustrations of her fantastic artwork.
Our full-page advertisement
Great review


Thursday 15 December 2016

Kindle version of Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb now available

Although originally we were not going to do an ebook version of Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb, we have been asked so often, we have now made it available on kindle.

trade paperback:
Amazon.co.uk  £8.99
Amazon.com  $11.99

ebook:
Amazon.co.uk £2.99
Amazon.com $3.79

David Williamson's The Chameleon Man & Other Terrors now available on Kindle

Kindle versions of David Williamson's The Chameleon Man & Other Terrors are now available.

amazon.co.uk £2.99
amazon.com $3.79

This collection includes four tales that originally appeared in the Pan Books of Horror.


Contents are:
The Procedure
The Scryer
No Room at the Flat
The Sandman
The Too Good Samaritan
The Not So Good Samaritan
The Chameleon Man
The Switch
Rest in Pieces
Ashes to Ashes
Blind Date
Herbert Manning's Psychic Circus
The Boy
Ten Weeks
Din-Dins for Binky
A Reflection of the Times
And the Dead Shall Speak
Boys will be Boys
A Night to Remember
A Problem Shared

David Williamson has been writing horror stories for many years, and was first published in the prestigious Pan Book of Horror series, where he had a tale in number 28. This was followed by a further three stories in Pan number 30 which, sadly, turned out to be the last of that great series. It was not until he was contacted by Johnny Mains, a walking encyclopaedia in the field of Pan Horror and its authors, that his passion for writing horror was once more re-kindled, and Johnny introduced him to Charles Black, the editor of The Black Book of Horror. Since then, David has been a regular contributor to the wonderful Black Books series,  alongside many other well known authors both from the Pan era and more recent times. He has also appeared in several other anthologies from publishers such as Hersham Horror, Gray Friar Press and Hazardous Press.
He lives in West Sussex near the sea.

Tuesday 13 December 2016

Into the Dark available for only £1.99/$2.99 on kindle for limited period

Andrew Jennings' horror novel Into the Dark is available now on kindle for the specially reduced price of £1.99/$2.99 for a limited period only.

A serial killer
A secret cult of sadists
An East European strain of demonic evil
A young girl with a morbid fear of the dark
And the dark itself

"The extreme damage that the bullet had inflicted on the rest of the brain had accelerated some changes. As had the need to repair some of its primary sensors. Sight had been destroyed. But the surviving brain instinctively knew that sight was essential for its survival. Basic, at first, a form of sight was retrieved through the existence of several damaged nerve endings, blood vessels and other fleshy sensory matter.
During the long, dark hours towards the end of the night tendrils of fibrous tissue grew, melded and continued to work, rebuilding a crude approximation of what had been damaged – crude but workable.
Which was all that it needed."



Ebook:
Amazon.co.uk  £1.99
Amazon.com  $2.99

It is still, of course, still available as a trade paperback:

trade paperback:
Amazon.co.uk  £8.99
Amazon.com  $11.99


Andrew Darlington (A Saucerful of Secrets) on the Vault of Evil Advent Calendar



Chrissie Demant © 2016


Day thirteen brings a first VAC appearance for Andrew Darlington, former stand-up alt-commedian, sometime rock critic, veteran of the fanzine scene, and author of the recent genre-bending SF-horror-fantasy-weirdness collection, A Saucerful Of Secrets (Parallel Universe, 2016). Am sure you will agree that today's offering is as appropriate for the time of year as it is unspeakably ghastly. After all, what's Christmas without some good old stuffing?


Attachments:

andrew darlington - taxidermy.pdf (57.86 KB)

Friday 9 December 2016

Books to be published early next year

We have three books lined up for publication in the opening months of 2017.

The first will be Joseph Rubas's fine collection of stories, simply titled Shades.
Joseph Rubas began writing in 2002 after reading Stephen King’s The Stand. His earliest efforts reflected his deep love of that novel; he tried again and again to write a rip-off, but finally gave up around 2006 and resigned himself to writing original fiction. His first short story was published in May 2010 on the now defunct Horror Bound Online website. His second story was published in September 2010 in a Pushcart Prize nominated literary magazine for new and beginning writers called The Storyteller. Since then, his work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. His first collection, the now out of print Pocketful of Fear, was released by a small publisher in 2012. His second collection, After Midnight, appeared in 2014. His short fiction has appeared in: Nameless Digest; The Horror Zine; Eschatology Journal; Thuglit; Manor House; All Due Respect, and others. He has self-published three longer works: The Rocking Dead: Seasons 1-3 (a parody of the AMC series The Walking Dead); The Rocking Dead: Season 4; The Shapeshifter; and Dracula 1912, the latter a novel.
In addition to writing, he has also edited two anthologies: A Thorn of Death (2012) and The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories (2016).
He currently resides in Albany, New York.


The second will be a collection written by Carl Barker: Parlour Tricks. No cover available to show yet, but it will be the work of award-winning artist Jim Pitts. Further details on this in the near future.

The third will be a collection from Mike Chinn: Radix Omnium Malum & Other Incursions. 
Mike Chinn lives in Birmingham, UK, with his wife Caroline and their tribe of guinea pigs. In 2012 he took early retirement so he can spend more time writing (and not housework). Over the years he has published over sixty short stories, as well as editing three volumes of THE ALCHEMY PRESS BOOK OF PULP HEROES, and SWORDS AGAINST THE MILLENNIUM, also for The Alchemy Press. His own contribution to the Pulp Adventure genre, THE PALADIN MANDATES garnered two nominations for the British Fantasy Award in 1999. A second Damian Paladin book, WALKERS IN SHADOW, is to be published by Pro Se Productions; as is a Western: REVENGE IS A COLD PISTOL. In 2015, his Sherlock Holmes steampunk mash-up, VALLIS TIMORIS (Fringeworks), sent the famous detective to the Moon.


Thursday 8 December 2016

The Chameleon Man & Other Terrors now available in paperback

The trade paperback version of The Chameleon Man & Other Terrors by David Williamson is now available from both amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.

trade paperback:
amazon.co.uk £8.99
amazon.com $11.99

This collection includes four tales that originally appeared in the Pan Books of Horror.

Contents are:
The Procedure
The Scryer
No Room at the Flat
The Sandman
The Too Good Samaritan
The Not So Good Samaritan
The Chameleon Man
The Switch
Rest in Pieces
Ashes to Ashes
Blind Date
Herbert Manning's Psychic Circus
The Boy
Ten Weeks
Din-Dins for Binky
A Reflection of the Times
And the Dead Shall Speak
Boys will be Boys
A Night to Remember
A Problem Shared

David Williamson has been writing horror stories for many years, and was first published in the prestigious Pan Book of Horror series, where he had a tale in number 28. This was followed by a further three stories in Pan number 30 which, sadly, turned out to be the last of that great series. It was not until he was contacted by Johnny Mains, a walking encyclopaedia in the field of Pan Horror and its authors, that his passion for writing horror was once more re-kindled, and Johnny introduced him to Charles Black, the editor of The Black Book of Horror. Since then, David has been a regular contributor to the wonderful Black Books series,  alongside many other well known authors both from the Pan era and more recent times. He has also appeared in several other anthologies from publishers such as Hersham Horror, Gray Friar Press and Hazardous Press.
He lives in West Sussex near the sea.