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My story Help-Plants illustrated in Aboriginal Science Fiction in 1998

Sorting through a box of old material, I came across this all but forgotten picture in the now defunct magazine Aboriginal Science Fiction from Summer 1998, which contained my story Help-Plants. Definitely one of the more curious illustrations I have ever had drawn from one of my stories.

Other Visions of Heaven and Hell reviewed

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…/
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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/
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A Place of Skulls – Book Review
[image error]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…horrorreview.com

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If you don't care for amazon, all Parallel Universe Publications books are available at wordery. Wordery.com[image error]With over 10 million books on Wordery, all with free worldwide delivery, we're dedicated to helping fellow bookworms find the right books at the lowest prices.wordery.com

Adam Nevill's The Ritual now coming to the big screen

The original novel by Adam Nevill is brilliant and one of the best horror novels I've read in recent years. I just hope this lives up to it - though the trailer does look promising!

The Mask of Fu Manchu

I just finished reading this, the first Fu Manchu novel I've finished in over fifty years. I remember buying these in cheap American imports with some amazing covers back in the day when every newsagent in the UK stocked Marvel and DC comics and copies of magazines like The Castle of Frankenstein and Famous Monsters of Filmland. Did the book live up to my memories? Though this book is a beautiful 1950s reprint of the 1933 original, and a book I'll treasure on my shelves forevermore, I found the story a lot more tedious and non-thrilling than I expected, not helped by the clunky first-person narrative. Oh well...

The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

Great progress has been made with The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts: Rolling Back the Years..., the most ambitious project yet undertaken by Parallel Universe Publications. The book will be approximately 220 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 rough copy of the cover, though that is still very much a work in progress.
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 personally inscribe any books bought. As this is a signed 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.

A Grim God's Revenge accepted by Mythic - a Quarterly Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine

Just learned that my fantasy tale, A Grim God's Revenge, has been accepted for publication in the fourth issue of Mythic, "a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine".

I haven't been doing much writing over the past two years, concentrating instead on publishing books under my Parallel Universe imprint - 26 titles so far, with the massive Jim Pitts artbook taking up much of my time this year, so it was a pleasant surprise to see something I wrote just prior to PUP taking over my life being accepted for publication.

My review of The Parts We Play by Stephen Volk on BFS Website

My review of Stephen Volk's short story collection from PS Publishing, The Parts We Play, is now on the British Fantasy Society website.
"A satisfyingly varied and well-written collection of stories by screen- and short-story writer Stephen Volk.
"Although I enjoyed reading all of the stories in this collection, these are some that made the biggest impact on me. The opening, Celebrity Frankenstein, is a satirical take on our obsession with reality TV and the cult of the celebrity, with a modern update of the Frankenstein myth..."
To read the rest of the review follow this link.