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.

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.

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 – 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…/

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.

"I urge all devotees of weird poetry to pick it up." S. T. Joshi re Benjamin Blake's Standing on the Threshold of Madness

Some nice comments about Benjamin Blake's poetry collection, Standing on the Threshold of Madness on S. T. Joshi's blog:
"I urge all devotees of weird poetry to pick it up." 
And the promise of a review in Spectral Realms 7.
http://stjoshi.org/news.html

Great review of The Winter Hunt and Other Stories in the latest issue of Fear

 Very pleased to see a great review of The Winter Hunt and Other Stories by Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis in the latest issue of Fear, which arrived in the post this morning.

"There are fifteen stories in all - a collection well worth the cover price."

To see the full review take a look at this month's Fear, itself well worth the cover price, with articles on Rodney Matthews, Adam Nevill, Samantha Lee, and Sam Stone.

Hard cover version of Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb

Parallel Universe Publications is pleased to announce that we have now published a hard cover version of Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb, which is available direct frrom us for £20.00, including postage and packing to the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.

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