Showing posts with label Beyond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beyond. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Parallel Universe Publications Reborn

It's seventeen years since our company, Parallel Universe Publications, published the last issue of Beyond. It's lain dormant since then.

Now it has been revived.

We will be bringing out our first publication - a hardbacked book - within the next few weeks. Already we have a second book in mind, though more about both publications later, save to say that the second book, a collection of short stories, is by one of the masters of the genre whose collection has not seen print for over a decade and can only be bought for three figure sums on the second hand collector's market.

The aim of our revived imprint will be to bring out a series of top quality books over the next few years. Along with hardback limited editions, we will also bring out easily affordable softcover editions for the reader's market.


Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner

I have just ordered the two-volume set, Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner: Where the Summer Ends, Volume 1; and Walk on the Wild Side, Volume 2, published by Centipede Press.

These should arrive early next week according to Amazon.

Karl was one of the best horror writers ever, though his Kane stories are some of the most outstanding novels in the annals of heroic fantasy fiction.

Volume 2 of Best Horror contains a special story for me. Gremlins was originally published in the first issue of  Beyond, which my wife and I edited in 1995. Karl was the first writer I wrote to for a story for the magazine and the one I was more eager than any other to have in it. My hope was that he would become a regular contributor. That wasn't to be. Plans for Beyond were started in 1994, which was when Karl mailed the story to me. I met him later that year at Fantasycon where we talked about the magazine, which was scheduled to be published the following year. Sadly, less than a month after meeting him Karl died. Gremlin appeared in our first issue, which we dedicated to him.


Monday, 14 June 2010

Beyond - In the Vault of Evil

Kev Demant (demonik), the host of Vault of Evil, one of the very best sites on the web for horror related discussions, etc., has just published an article on The Curse of Beyond. See Beyond Article