Wednesday 31 August 2022

Top Ten PUP Bestsellers for August

The top ten bestsellers for Parallel Universe Publications for August are:

1.    Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 1


2.    Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4


3.    Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 3


4.    Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2


5.    His Own Mad Demons by David A. Riley


6.    Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb


7.    A Saucerful of Secrets by Andrew Darlington


8.    Moloch's Children by David A. Riley


9.    The Heaven Maker & Other Gruesome Tales by Craig Herbertson


10.  Shades: Dark Tales of Supernatural Horror by Joseph Rubas


 

 


Tuesday 23 August 2022

Eric Ian Steele's First Feature Film Now Available On Amazon Prime

Eric Ian Steele, whose short story collection Nightscape is available from Parallel Universe Publications, is also an independent film maker. Please see the details below of his first movie which is now available on Amazon Prime:

"Our first feature film "Boy #5" is now available on Amazon Prime!
Get your hands on our microbudget vampire feature that took the indie world by storm.
Shot for under £10k it premiered in London's West End then Texas before appearing on TV in the USA, Canada and now the UK!
Filmed entirely in greater Manchester UK with a cast of unknown actors. This was the first feature length film we cut our teeth on.
Featuring a special set invasion from a family of foxes, guerilla filmmaking in Manchester city centre, inventive practical SFX and more!"
 
Nightscape
 

Eric Ian Steele is a novelist and screenwriter from Manchester, England. He is the writer of the horror novel The Autumn Man, as well as the thriller feature film The Student (2017) and the action/sci-fi feature film Clone Hunter (2010). He won the prestigious Writers on the Storm screenwriting contest in 2012 and has had short films produced across the USA. He has also written for hire on a children’s sci-fi animated TV series. His short stories range from science-fiction to horror and fantasy and can be found in numerous anthologies and magazines including Terror Tales alongside fiction by Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman, The Lovecraft E-Zine, Horror Without Victims, the superhero fiction anthology POW!erful Tales, and the zombie poetry collection Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes!  

Nightscape is being published in hardcover, price £20.00. 

It includes eleven tales:

Charlie - first published in Terror Tales #4, edityed by John B. Ford and Paul Kane

The Musical Box - first published in Chaos Theory: Tales Askew #13, edited by A. A. Roberts

The Groaner in the Glen - first published in The Lovecraft eZine #29, edited by Mike Davis

City of the Damned - first published in In Bad Dreams II

Black Annis - first published in The Willows #1, edited by Ben Thomas

After the Fall - first published in Chaos Theory: Tales Askew #3, edited by A. A. Roberts

Moths - first published in Scifantastic

Cycle - first published in Terminal Earth

A Dahlia Among the Roses, Ars Armortia, and Indian Summer are original to this collection.

Paperback and kindle: 

Saturday 20 August 2022

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 5 coming in November

Artwork: Jim Pitts


Just a reminder that volume 5 of our popular Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy series will be published in November this year. The submissions period will open on the 1st October and end at midnight on the 31st October. All submissions, whether accepted or rejected, will be answered by the end of the first week in November.

For full details about submitting stories to us follow this link


Thursday 18 August 2022

Monday 1 August 2022

Top 10 PUP Bestsellers for July

This has been another exciting month at Parallel Universe Publications with a surge in sales for the second month coming of our popular swords and sorcery anthologies.
As expected our latest collection topped our sales for July. More surprisingly the first volume, published in November 2020, came a close second. Here are the top ten sellers of PUP books in July:
1. Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4
2. Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 1
3. Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2
4. Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 3
5. Moloch's Children by David A. Riley
6. Haunted Grave and Other Stories by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso
7. Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb
8. Things That Go Bump in the Night edited by Douglas Draa & David A. Riley
9. Kitchen Sink Gothic edited by Linden & David Riley
10. His Own Mad Demons by David A. Riley