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The Parliament House curates voicey upmarket urban fantasy and paranormal fiction with an emphasis on uplifting marginalized voices and unconventional narratives. We strive to inscribe magic onto every page and to capture our passionate readership with the enduring power of storytelling. Our mission is not only to offer readers fantastical escapes, to make the impossible possible, but to share stories that are thought-provoking, evocative, and speak to the complexities of our lived reality.
09/09/2025
👻💀🗡️QOTD: Do you believe in miracles?🗡️💀👻
York needs a miracle, and Arthur may be the only one who can help. But he's going to have to get through his own troubles before he can save the day again.
See what happens next in A. B. Finlayson's newest addition to the Arthur Crazy Series: THE SAINT AND THE SHADOWMAN!
The city of York is teetering on the edge of disaster. During a rare eclipse, the Shadowman casts a spell atop the Minster, trapping the city between the realm of the living and the dead. Ghosts flood the streets, and Arthur, with his best friend Steve, is the only one who can stop the chaos.
But Arthur’s not exactly in hero shape. Haunted by his past and drowning his sorrows in the nearest pint, he’s barely keeping it together. That is, until he meets Nae—a beautiful stranger who might just hold the key to helping him feel normal again.
Now, with the Shadowman’s spell tearing the veil between worlds, the city’s only hope rests on a washed-up hero, a saint from the Shambles, and a dog who won’t stop talking.
York needs a miracle. Arthur needs another drink.
Or maybe a Panadol and a panini.
09/08/2025
⚙️💀🔧QOTD: Do you have a favorite topic to research?🔧💀⚙️
All Isaac Barrow wants is to be left alone to pursue his supernatural research and tinker with his inventions. But when you’re the only technomancer openly practicing the craft in 1880s Halifax, trouble has a way of finding you.
When a routine mechanical service call reveals the grisly handiwork of the Nightshade Cabal—an underground cult of necromancers—Barrow finds himself in a race against time to put a stop to the Cabal’s depredations before they can kill anyone else and turn them into… office machinery?
Then there’s the mystery of Emily Skye, a missing teenager with strange abilities of her own. Believing her disappearance to be connected to the Nightshade Cabal, Barrow agrees to help track down the missing girl. But even if he can find her, will Miss Skye aid him in his struggle against the Cabal? Or might she turn out to be the deadliest threat of all?
Find out in Chris Patrick Carolan's THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL!
👾💀🚪QOTD: What was the last game you played until the end?🚪💀👾
Paul thought he was finished with the Between. Well, the Between isn't finished with him. His loved ones have been captured and he's going to have to return to the world that ruined his life to rescue them.
Will Paul finally defeat the Between? Pre-order Ryan Leslie's THE GARDEN OF BEFORE today and find out on September 23rd!
For Paul Prentice things have gotten much worse. His house was destroyed in the battle with the Koŝmaro. He’s on thin ice at his job, where instead of working he loses himself in the Between’s computer game, trying in vain to find explanations. His best friend Jay has transformed into a shadowy killer. Corinne and Supriya have vanished. And it appears his wife, Julie, has finally had enough and left him.
Alone and near ruin, Paul receives a familiar visitor with a dire message: they are all back in the Between. Hunted, captured, doomed. For Paul, still wearing the serĉilo’s artifact on his wrist, escape was never an option. The game must be played until the end.
In the harrowing conclusion to The Between, Leslie once again invites readers into a mind-twisting world where the most terrifying monsters are the ones let loose inside of us.
09/01/2025
👾💀🚪QOTD: Are you ready to experience the Between?🚪💀👾
Paul and Jay have found their way into a deadly world reminiscent of '80s video game The Between. As the friends make their way through each room, they learn that the biggest threat may not be the Koŝmaro risen from the depths. The biggest threat may be themselves.
Grab your copy of Ryan Leslie's THE BETWEEN today and get ready for its sequel, THE GARDEN OF BEFORE, which releases later this month!
His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what’s beneath.
When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early ‘80s called The Between.
Paul and Jay find themselves filling roles in a story that seems to play out over and over again. But in this world, where their roles warp their minds, the biggest threat to survival may not be the Koŝmaro, risen from the Between’s depths to hunt them; the biggest danger may be each other.
08/26/2025
🌌💀🌟QOTD: Are you afraid of space?🌟💀🌌
In Ryan Leslie's thrilling sci-fi novel COLOSSUS, it isn't space that Clay West is most scared of. It's the ill-fated mission into deep space, the malfunctioning ship, and the "false" memories that show there's more to the story than Clay and his crewmates have been led to believe. What started as an attempt for answers quickly devolves into terrifying experience that could cost Clay everything he has left.
Join Clay on his journey into the darkness of space in COLOSSUS today!
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Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish-a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life-Clay is devastated. No amount of rationalization can explain Karla’s actions.
Distraught, Clay joins a mission into the dark emptiness of space where answers are promised to reside. But when the ship begins to malfunction, Clay and the surviving crew members suspect there’s more to the mission than they’ve been told. They’ve been lied to, and they’re drifting into dead space.
Clay’s memories of Karla haunt him even more than the ship’s chaos, and there’s something wrong with his memories: he has too many. The ship’s Al tells Clay his false memories are a normal side-effect of the hibernation, but to Clay, the memories suggest something far more insidious.
He’s been on this ship before…
08/25/2025
✨☁️✨QOTD: If you had the power to adjust reality, what tales would you choose to believe?✨☁️✨
The Phantasmer has been long anticipated. A human that can change the fabric of the Fairy realm simply by believing in a story. When Sylvia learns that she's the Phantasmer, she finds herself torn between two Courts--and two attractive young men with their own interests at hand. And here Sylvia thought trying to make friends in a rich prep school was going to be difficult.
See what stories Sylvia must choose between in Wren Handman's IN RESTLESS DREAMS!
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Sylvia is just a normal girl with huge, normal problems—her mother’s attempted su***de; how to adjust to life on the Upper East Side; trying to make friends in a rich prep school where she doesn’t belong; whether or not to trust the cute boy with the dangerous eyes.
She thinks that’s more than she can handle, but she tests the limits of her endurance when she learns that she is the long awaited Phantasmer, a human who can change the fabric of Fairy simply by believing in a new story. Sylvia’s life is thrown off course as two warring Courts, the Seelie and Unseelie, both attempt to co-opt her gift to fight the other Court, which she has to deal with while trying not to get kicked out of school for fighting.
And it doesn’t help matters that the fairies begging for her help are both attractive young men with their own agendas.
08/19/2025
🕰️⛓️💀QOTD: How would you lead a rebellion?💀⛓️🕰️
E. M. Wright's The Children of Erikkson trilogy comes to an exiting end in PETRICHOR!
The biomaton rebellion has been declared with Taryn at the helm. She's quickly learning the price of war and will soon face a threat from within her own ranks. Will Taryn be able to lead the biomatons to freedom in the end?
After facing charges of treason and the threat of hanging, Taryn is gravely injured, and the biomatons narrowly escape with their lives. With the biomaton rebellion officially declared, Elmhurst is preparing for war.
Freshly awakened from a weeks-long coma, Taryn must battle not only the outside forces that want to subdue her, but her own internal strife as she realizes the full cost of war. She's learning new things about her past, losing friends, and worst of all, she's afraid she might be losing herself.
Yet more pressing conflicts vie for her attention. While she's trying to run a rebellion and get her strength back, Erikkson insists an important player is missing—his third and most volatile construction: a clockwork assassin known as Petrichor, freshly returned after years in the United States. Taryn not only has to grapple with her own role and tenuous humanity in this war; she'll also have to face a new threat from inside her own army.
Is freedom finally within reach, or will the biomatons find themselves in chains once again?
Petrichor is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Children of Erikkson trilogy.
08/18/2025
🏹🐅🌳QOTD: How far would you go to protect a village threatening exile?🌳🐅🏹
Els never wanted to marry. Her purpose was to protect her village from the feline beasts that prowled the forest at night, and love had no part in it. But after a fever stole much of her hearing she was forced to choose between exile and marrying a stranger.
The girl Samuel loved abandoned him when an injury left him with a mangled foot. He fled from his village across the island to escape living under his father's unreasonable expectations. Never again would Samuel be the great hunter and leader that his father wanted.
Before they can adapt to their new life as a married couple, the very beasts from which Els used to protect the village kill her friend, sending everyone flurrying with fear.
Now, there's only one choice: Hunt the beasts and kill every last one. And do it together.
Learning to adapt to their new disabilities, Els, Samuel, and their rag-tag team must learn to listen with their hearts--or die trying.
See what happens next in Annie Lisenby's A THREE-LETTER NAME!!
The time is here! The cover for PETRICHOR, the final installment of E. M. Wright's The Children of Erikkson trilogy, has arrived. Are you ready to see how Taryn's journey ends?
Swipe through for a short story from E. M. Wright set in The Children of Erikkson's universe!
After facing charges of treason and the threat of hanging, Taryn is gravely injured, and the biomatons narrowly escape with their lives. With the biomaton rebellion officially declared, Elmhurst is preparing for war.
Freshly awakened from a weeks-long coma, Taryn must battle not only the outside forces that want to subdue her, but her own internal strife as she realizes the full cost of war. She's learning new things about her past, losing friends, and worst of all, she's afraid she might be losing herself.
Yet more pressing conflicts vie for her attention. While she's trying to run a rebellion and get her strength back, Erikkson insists an important player is missing—his third and most volatile construction: a clockwork assassin known as Petrichor, freshly returned after years in the United States. Taryn not only has to grapple with her own role and tenuous humanity in this war; she'll also have to face a new threat from inside her own army.
Is freedom finally within reach, or will the biomatons find themselves in chains once again?
Petrichor is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Children of Erikkson trilogy.
08/11/2025
🕰️⛓️💀QOTD: What price would you pay for freedom for you and those like you?💀⛓️🕰️
In E. M. Wright's The Children of Erikkson trilogy, Taryn Roft will find out just how steep the price of freedom is. From attending classes at Grafton’s School of Mechanicks to leading an entire biomaton rebellion, Taryn will also have to learn who she is and what she's capable of if she wants to achieve her goals.
Will Taryn be able to save not only herself, but her friends and every biomaton possible? Find out in SEDITION and SERAPHIM! And get ready for the cover reveal of the third and final installment in the trilogy: PETRICHOR!
In an alternate Victorian England, clockwork cyborgs provide the primary source of labor for the upper class. Known as biomatons, they are property by law and have been manipulated and mind-controlled into subservience.
Taryn Roft, a 17-year-old girl, attending classes at Grafton’s School of Mechanicks in London has a secret. What’s even worse—she cannot remember anything before her twelfth birthday.
When a mysterious privateer discovers her secret, he offers her an ultimatum: accompany him to his airship, or her secret will be revealed to everyone. For Taryn, it’s not much of a choice. Facing prejudice and cruelty may be nothing new to the only girl at an all-boys’ school, but the further from home she gets, the darker her situation becomes.
08/05/2025
🌙💀☁️QOTD: Would you ever post your dreams for the world to see?☁️💀🌙
Maeve and Peri are creators who record and publish their dreams for others to enjoy. But when Maeve's dreams start to reflect reality and the same woman appears over and over in Peri's, the line between what's real and what's illusion grows dangerously thin. The two dreamers will have to find each other if they want to learn the truth of their dreams before it's too late.
Find out happens when reality begins to unravel Wren Handman's A MIDNIGHT SO DEADLY!
Maeve and Peri are ‘dreamers,’ creators who record their dreams and publish them to the delight of their fans. When Maeve dreams of the murder of her friend’s abusive ex—and then he’s killed in the real world—her ‘dream’ job becomes terrifying. At the same time, Peri is losing their grip on reality as they search for a woman who keeps appearing in their dreams. Who is this enticing stranger? How does she keep finding Peri, night after night? And what will it cost to hunt her down?
To find the answers to their questions, Maeve and Peri will first have to find each other. As their dreams begin to bleed into the real world, and the borders between reality and illusion come unstuck, reality itself faces deadly collapse.
08/04/2025
🐉💀📜QOTD: What's your class favorite class to play? A rogue? A bard?📜💀🐉
Heloise is a Bard who's ready to rewrite the story. She's ready to share the reality behind the myth (that she wrote) of the band of heroes who defeated the fearsome Dragonia and saved the village of Skendrick.
Find out what really happened in Sean Gibson's THE PART ABOUT THE DRAGON WAS (MOSTLY) TRUE today!
How it terrorized the village of Skendrick until a brave band of heroes answered the noble villagers’ call for aid. How nothing could stop those courageous souls from facing down the dragon. How they emerged victorious and laden with treasure.
But, even in a world filled with epic adventures and tales of derring-do, where dragons, goblins, and unlicensed prestidigitators run amok, legendary heroes don’t always know what they’re doing. Sometimes they’re clueless. Sometimes beleaguered townsfolk are more hapless than helpless. And orcs? They’re not always as****es, and sometimes they don’t actually want to eat your children.
Heloise the Bard, Erithea’s most renowned storyteller (at least, to hear her tell it), is here to set the record straight. See, it turns out adventuring isn’t easy, and true heroism is as rare as an articulate villager.
Having spent decades propagating this particular myth (which, incidentally, she wrote), she’s finally able to tell the real story—for which she just so happened to have a front-row seat.
Welcome to Erithea. I hope you brought a change of undergarments—things are going to get messy.
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At The Parliament House, we believe that pen and ink is as good as magic and spell, and we strive to provide a good home for those stories with a little extra dazzle. We work with our writers every step of the way on their literary journey, helping to bring out the most from their work. From multiple rounds of editing to unique, individualized marketing outreach, The Parliament House helps our authors produce brilliantly bizarre, original, and moving stories with some edge.
Why Parliament House? Though we are new on the block in the publishing community, our team has a combined twenty-plus years experience in editing, marketing, and design. We bring a Manhattan quality aesthetic to small-press, offering author-friendly publishing to both new and seasoned voices.. We specialize in a niche market and are very selective about the sorts of titles we accept, because we want to ensure each of our projects gets the attention it deserves. Every title is selected specifically because we believe in its ability to succeed.
Striving to be the Guillermo del Toro of the indie publishing world, The Parliament House was founded by Shayne Leighton, bestselling author and marketing professional. The Parliament House curates fantasy of every scope with a specific taste for the weird, dark, and quirky. Be it contemporary, steampunk, paranormal, urban, or otherwise, it has to be the sort of magic that captures our attention and leaves a lasting impression.
Our mission is not only to provide the world with fantastic escapes into the impossible, but also to create a publishing home for the author, and more importantly, a family. Navigating through the business of publishing can feel daunting without the right support system and group of knowledgable experts. The Parliament House prides itself on being a supportive place for new and seasoned authors alike to thrive.
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