Sunday, 16 July 2017

Nightscape by Eric Ian Steele is the next book from Parallel Universe Publications

The next book to be published by PUP will be a collection of short stories called Nightscape from Eric Ian Steele.





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!  

Unlike earlier PUP books, Nightscape will initially be published in hardcover, price £19.99 and will be available for order within the next few weeks. 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.






Friday, 14 July 2017

Jim Pitts artwork for next major project from Parallel Universe Publications

Jim Pitts has finished his first piece of artwork for our next major illustrated project, which is due to be published by Parallel Universe Publications next year.


Monday, 10 July 2017

Next big project for Parallel Universe Publications already started

While waiting for a printed proof copy of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts I have already started work on the next major project for Parallel Universe Publications, which will be published as a limited edition hardback next year. The book will be the same overall size as the art book, and will be a collaboration between Jim Pitts and myself, a mixture of stories, articles and illustrations. I'll add that the stories will not be mine but by a very important writer in the field of weird literature. More details soon.

Friday, 7 July 2017

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts - update


After a few final tweaks, The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is now at the proofing stage. Within the next week we expect to have a proof copy of this book in our hands, prior to publication. At 214 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches in size, this hardcover book contains hundreds of black and white and full-colour illustrations covering all the years since 1972 when Jim's art first appeared in fanzines like Shadow and Balthus right up to the present day, with illustrations for Brian Lumley's Earth, Air, Fire & Water, Four Tales of Elemental Mythos Horror! published by Fedogan & Bremer. 

As well as illustrations, the book also contains articles by Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, David A. Sutton, Peter Coleborn, Jon M. Harvey, Nick Caffrey, Stephen Jones and David A. Riley. 

Published as a limited, numbered edition of 250, each copy will be signed by Jim Pitts. 

Although the book will be launched at Fantasycon in Peterborough on October 1st, we will be posting details of how you can order this book before then. Any pre-orders will entitle the purchaser to four high-quality, personally signed prints by Jim Pitts.  The price of the book for pre-orders and at Fantasycon will be £35, rising to £40 afterwards.


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David Ludford's A Place of Skulls - reviewed on Horror Review

Great review Dave Ludford's collection A Place of Skulls.
http://www.horrorreview.com/a-place-of-skulls-book-review/

A Place of Skulls and other Tales David Ludford Parallel Universe Publications Released 10/4/2016 Reviewed by Brian James Lewis This interesting collection of twelve speculative fiction shorts by D…
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Other Visions of Heaven and Hell reviewed by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso

A fabulous review of Jessica Palmer's collection from Parallel Universe Publications, Other Visions of Heaven and Hell, by Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso.
https://mytrendingstories.com/…/a-review-of-jessica-palmer…/

Saturday, 1 July 2017

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts: Rolling back the years...


The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts: Rolling Back the Years..., is the most ambitious project yet undertaken by Parallel Universe Publications. The book will be approximately 212 pages in length and contain hundreds of black and white and colour illustrations, going back to the very earliest days of Jim's career as a fantasy artist in the 1970s  when he became a mainstay for such legendary fanazines as Shadow, Balthus and the British Fantasy Society's Dark Horizons, right up to today, with books such as Brian Lumley's lavish hard cover from Fedogan & Bremer, Earth, Air, Fire & Water, Spectre Press publications like Cthulhu, The Hyborian Gazette and books from Alchemy Press, Shadow Publishing and PUP.
Above is a copy of the front and back covers and the spine, with its grotesque scarecrow.
The book is scheduled to be published in August/September as a numbered and signed limited edition hard cover, eight and a half inches by eleven. Details of how to pre-order this book (and the offers being made for any who take up this opportunity) will be given shortly. Copies of the book will also be available at FantasyCon, where Jim will be on hand to inscribe any books bought. As this is a limited edition copies will only be available though the Parallel Universe website or at FantasyCon.
The book includes articles by Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, David A. Sutton, Adrian Cole, Peter Coleborn, Jon M. Harvey, David A. Riley, and Nick Caffrey.