The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts and The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

For those of you who love the art of Jim Pitts in the Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy volumes as well as the Elak of Atlantis Trilogy by Adrian Cole, we have books dedicated to Jim's artwork: The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts and The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts, available as paperbacks and in hardcover.

 

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Copies of The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts arrive today

Two hefty boxes of The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts arrived today, ready to be sent out to those who pre-ordered them, with others to be taken to Chillercon at the end of the month, as well as to anyone who orders copies direct from us in the meantime rather than from amazon. 

Amazon.co.uk £30

Amazon.com $37.04

To order from PUP direct click on this link: Order Direct

If you order from PUP direct not only will your copy be signed by Jim Pitts but we'll also include a couple of signed prints.

Since we brought out The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts in 2017 Jim has been constantly busy, including interior artwork for Elak: King of Atlantis and After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales, covers for Phantasmagoria magazine, and a host of other projects, with new techniques and fresh designs. 

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with black and white and full-colour illustrations.

Some updated glimpses into The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is an evolving project as new illustrations are added and Jim receives new commissions for his work, which we intend to include in this book.

Pre-order copies are available for £25 plus postage and packing. After publication the price will rise to £30.00 plus p&p.  

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts will be a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with black and white and full-colour illustrations.

All pre-ordered copies will be signed by Jim Pitts and will include 5 black & white or colour prints (please select from here) and will be posted as soon as the book is published.

Use the dropdown button on our Pre-Order page and select the region to which your order will be posted.  

If you have any queries please contact us at paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk

Here are just a few of the pages so far:

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is developing well, with great sections of new illustrations for M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Adrian Cole's Elak: King of Atlantis, The Fantastic Fiction of Hans Bok, Robert E. Howard, and Phantasmagoria magazine. Others are in the process of being included - details soon. 

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts will be a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with brand new black and white and full-colour illustrations.

All pre-ordered copies will be signed by Jim Pitts and will include 5 black & white or colour prints (please select from here) and will be posted as soon as the book is published.

If you have any queries please contact us at paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk

To pre-order a copy click on the following link to our Pre Order page: Pre Orders

Great 5-star review for The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts on amazon

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts received it's first 5-star review on amazon from Steve Dilks:

"I first encountered Jim Pitts' work in the anthology, SAVAGE HEROES back in 1983. Along with some glorious gems of stories, I was captivated by his ethereal and bizarre interior artwork. They more than matched the contents which consisted of Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Henry Kuttner, and others.
In this retrospective, we get a fascinating glimpse into his lengthy career, from the fanzines of the early '70s through to the present day. We also get to see his work for such luminaries as Adrian Cole and Brian Lumley. There are some great pieces written about Jim here, from his long term childhood friends (some of them old band mates!) as well as the afore mentioned Cole and Lumley. Jim did a lot of illustrative work on the legendary semi-professional U.K. publication, FANTASY TALES, which helped launch the career of FANTASY MASTERWORKS editor, Stephen Jones. Jones himself offers up a great insight into those D.I.Y. underground days. This book is packed full of illustrations from the past to the present day and is a great read to boot.
And Jim? Well, he's still getting on with it. Although (officially) retired, his output is as voracious as ever. He still delivers artwork for fanzines that wouldn't be half as good without him as well as providing work on top horror anthology publications. Unlike many artists whose work tapers off after their initial youthful burst, Jim just keeps getting steadily better and better. Without a doubt, this book will need to be updated or we'll need a totally new retrospective in the next ten years."

Volumes 1 and 2 of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts now available in softcover

The softcover versions of the limited, signed hardback edition of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts are now both available to order online, £15.99 each. Volume 2 contains a small number of recent full colour and black & white illustrations not included in the hardback.

Amazon UK - volume 1
Amazon UK - volume 2


Amazon USA - volume 1
Amazon USA - volume 2

Volume One of the softcover version of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts now available

Volume One of the softcover version of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is now available online. Volume Two will follow shortly.

Amazon UK: £15.99

Amazon USA: $21.73

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts to be published in soft cover 1st May

To be published on the 1st May: the two-volume softcover set of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts. These will be the same as the hardback limited edition, except that volume two will include a handful of new illustrations, some in full-colour.
The books are 8 x 11 inches in size, 112-pages each. Price will be £15.99 each.

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

The price reduction on the signed, numbered, limited edition of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts has now ended and the price has reverted to its original cost of £35 per copy plus postage and packing.

However, a soft cover version in two volumes will be available shortly through amazon, price £15.00 per copy.

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts reviewed by Trevor Kennedy of Phantasmagoria Magazine

THE FANTASTICAL ART OF JIM PITTS.
Review by Trevor Kennedy for Phantasmagoria Magazine.
The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is a bumper hardback dedicated to the life works so far of the man of the title, one of the great fantasy artists of our time. On top of that, it also serves as a history of sorts of the much esteemed British Fantasy Society (and related publications) and the early days of these guys at the forefront of the movement, highlighting their good times, and quite often difficulties, over the last almost half a century. Jim Pitts and his exquisitely detailed artworks are our guides through this fascinating and hugely important period for the UK fantasy/horror scene. And I loved every single page of it!
Jim’s life, from his working class Northern English beginnings and folk band days with ‘The Jim Pitts Folk Quartet’ to the present day, is chronicled over 212 pages alongside a bonanza of his macabre works and written contributions from BFS stalwarts such as David A. Riley, David A. Sutton, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, Brian Lumley, Adrian Cole, Peter Coleborn and more, fascinating real life stories concerning what really must have been a golden era for these pioneers, especially in the 1970s and ‘80s. Reading about the difficulties they faced back then just made me realise how lucky wannabe publishers/writers like myself get it these days. My first job when I left school was with a printing firm, so I know only too well how expensive lithographic printing was, and probably still is.
On the subject of Jim’s artwork itself, firstly I must state that I am no art expert, especially from a technical viewpoint. But for me, as a layman, I found his numerous pieces included on the pages to be brilliantly atmospheric, haunting and Lovecraftian. I particularly enjoyed his representations of certain M.R. James’ stories, some of his Cthulhu mythos-based creations, his cracking portrait of Vincent Price in Witchfinder General, along with a classic Universal monster or two. On a personal level, Jim’s artwork also brought with it warm feelings of nostalgia for my own childhood when I would have read some of the various publications referenced, including Fantasy Tales and the B.F.S. Bulletins, mailed to me in the 1980s by my then pen-pal cousin Dave Carson, another fantasy artist also mentioned in the book and associate of Jim and the aforementioned contributors. For me to now be just a small part of this scene is the greatest of personal honours.
This is a very special book for many reasons, so if you have even a passing interest in fantasy artwork (especially that of Jim Pitts obviously) or the recent history of the UK weird fiction scene, then you really need to grab a copy for yourself as soon as humanly possible!
A limited number of 250 signed copies of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts have been published by Parallel Universe Publications. If you are interested in acquiring a copy you can contact them through the following:
Parallel Universe Publications
David A. Riley; Linden Riley
Head Office: 130 Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, BB5 3DR, UK.
Email: paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk or davidariley@gmx.co.uk
A future issue of Phantasmagoria Magazine (number 10, late May 2019) will feature interviews with Jim Pitts, David A. Riley and David A. Sutton.

To order a copy click on this link Order The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

Limited Edition - The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

This is just a friendly reminder to anyone interested in this large, hardcover book featuring the fantastical art of Jim Pitts, that this is a signed, numbered, limited edition. Only a diminishing number of copies remain before it will be out of print, when it will  become a collector's item, with the inevitable rise in its price.

If you want to make sure of getting a copy before this happens, there is only one place it can be bought, and that is direct from the publisher, Parallel Universe Publications. The link to buy copies is here. Priced only £25.00 plus p&p.

Besides hundreds of copies of black and white and full colour artwork, the book includes articles by Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, David A. Sutton, Adrian Cole, Peter Coleborn, Jon Harvey, and Nick Caffrey.

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts - price reduction to £25.00 plus p&p

We have reduced the price of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts from £30.00 to £25.00 per copy plus postage.

Our charges now, including shipping costs, are:
£28.90 for UK orders
£34.75 for European orders
£39.75 for airmail postage to the rest of the world
£34.80 for surface mail postage to the rest of the world (which can take up to 45 days)

This is a numbered, limited edition of 250 copies, each of which is signed by the artist.

Please go to Order Books Direct.

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts - revised (and reduced) shipping costs

Following our reduction in the price of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts from £35.00 to £30.00 per copy, we have also revised our shipping costs and added surface mail as an option to the rest of the world for those who would be happy to wait up to 45 days for delivery.

Our charges now, including shipping costs, are:
£33.90 for UK orders
£39.75 for European orders
£44.75 for airmail postage to the rest of the world
£39.80 for surface mail postage to the rest of the world (which can take up to 45 days)

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

UK £33.90 GBP Europe £39.75 GBP Rest of the World - airmail £44.75 GBP Rest of the World - surface mail (45 days) £39.80 GBP

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts - reduced by £5.00

We have reduced the price of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts from £35.00 (plus postage and packing) to £30.00 (plus postage and packing).

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

UK £33.90 GBP Europe £39.75 GBP Rest of the World - airmail £44.75 GBP Rest of the World - surface mail (45 days) £39.80 GBP

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

Because of the high cost of postage overseas for copies of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts we will also include a free copy of Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb.

 

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

UK £38.90 GBP Europe £48.60 GBP Rest of the World £53.60 GBP

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts reviewed on The Vault of Evil

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts has just been reviewed on the prestigious Vault of Evil website:

"Far the most attractively presented book I've set eyes on this year and an absorbing and informative read into the bargain. Rolling Back The Years is both a glorious celebration of Jim Pitts' talent and, for those of us with an enthusiasm for the golden age of British fantasy and horror fanzines, an invaluable companion to David A. Sutton's On The Fringes For Thirty Years . MRJ is well served with four illustrations from Ghosts: A Tribute to M. R. James and The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas illo which "was used quite randomly by Francesca in Kadath. It was recently placed on the book cover of Ghosts & Scholars #27, where Rosemary Pardoe used it more appropriately."

Read more: http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/6710/fantastical-pitts-rolling-back-years#ixzz568udxa00

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts - signed editions by Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, Peter Coleborn, Jon M. Harvey, David A. Riley, Jim Pitts

There are a limited number of editions signed by most of the contributors to the book at Fantasycon left: Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, Peter Coleborn, Jon M. Harvey, David A. Riley, and of course Jim himself. If you would like one, you'll need to order one soon before these run out.

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts available in Blackburn's Bat Cave

Signed copies of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts are now available in Blackburn's premier genre shop, The Bat Cave.