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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.
11/17/2025
🐉💀📜QOTD: Would you be willing to fight a dragon?📜💀🐉
Sure, you think you know the story of the fearsome red dragon, Dragonia.
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.
Sean Gibson's THE PART ABOUT THE DRAGON WAS (MOSTLY) TRUE is the perfect read for fans of fantasy! Get your copy today!
🗝️💀🏚️QOTD: Who is the first person you'd tell if you began to have visions?🏚️💀🗝️
Since moving to Morgan House, Rachel has been having visions of a familiar man lurking in shadow. These visions grow more frequent and more violent following a family tragedy. What is causing Rachel's visions? And what lies in the forbidden cellar of Morgan House
Find out in Nicole Willson's THE KEEPER OF THE KEY! Cover art by @ nong247
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There are a thousand things sixteen-year-old Rachel would rather do than upend her life to move into Morgan House, an old, run-down mansion owned by her mom’s boyfriend, Geoff.
But when her mother announces they’re relocating to St. Mary, Virginia to live with him, Rachel’s cut off from her friends and life as she knows it. St. Mary is a remote, lonely place, and the best thing about it is Nick, a guy she knows is worth keeping when he takes her to a cemetery on their first date.
Rachel struggles to get along with Geoff and his mile-long list of annoying house rules—in particular, his bizarre insistence that she stay out of the basement. But something in Morgan House plays by its own rules. At night, an unknown force pulls Rachel down to that forbidden cellar, showing her harrowing visions of a strangely familiar man lurking in the shadows. When a sudden tragedy strikes her family, those visions become more frequent—and more violent.
The dead issue urgent warnings, and if Rachel doesn’t heed them, she’ll become part of Morgan House forever.
11/10/2025
🃏🩸🧟QOTD: Would you rather fight a zombie or a vampire and why?🧟🩸🃏
After being forced to reveal hidden inhuman traits, Gin Cain is being hunted through the Nevada desert by both vampires and radiated zombies. While on the run, Gin realizes that she'll need to give up pretending to be human and embrace the power in her blood if she wants to save everything she loves.
Will Gin uncover the truth behind her mysterious blood traits and save Reno from destruction? Find out in Phoebe Wagner's A SHOT OF GIN today!
Working security for the vampire-owned All Saints Casino, Gin’s got an edge on the other employees: vampires can’t drink her blood, making her perfect for the job. But when a radiated zombie staggers into the casino’s club, she’s forced to expose the inhuman traits she’s kept hidden.
Now, the powerful Vegas vampires want a piece of her. Her fanged boss Colton—a cowboy turned during the Nevada silver rush—helps her escape into the high desert, but the Vegas vampires and radiated zombies pursue relentlessly, eventually closing in.
Cornered and at risk of kidnapping, she accidentally triggers a nuclear explosion in a frantic bid for survival. Reckoning with the fallout, Gin realizes that if she wants to save the casino and the people she calls family, she must give up the idea of being human and uncover the origins of her mysterious blood traits—all while trying to keep her home at the Saints Casino, and the rest of Reno, from getting nuked.
11/04/2025
🌌💀🌟QOTD: Which is more frightening: the expanse of space or living with the unknown?🌟💀🌌
To find a way to rationalize the actions that led to his girlfriend's death, Clay West joins a mission into the depths of space. But when the ship he's on malfunctions, he finds that he's getting more than he bargained for. Burdened with more questions than answers, Clay's expedition into space may be his last.
Ryan Leslie's COLOSSUS is available now! See what happens next on Clay's mission for answers!
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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…
11/03/2025
💀🩸🚬QOTD: Do you have what it takes to intern for Death?🚬🩸💀
Death needs a vacation. Badly. But there’s a catch: There are people who cheat the system, always falling through the cracks and not dying like they’re supposed to. Who’s going to take care of them while Death’s sipping on sangria?
The answer is simple: Death needs an intern, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that one prospect, Buck Palasinksia—a bankrupt hitman with a roleplaying addiction—might have what it takes. While scoping out his next target, Buck gets drilled in the forehead by a bullet and falls right into Death’s lap.
If they shove him back into his body, he’ll have a few weeks to prove that he has what it takes to be Death’s right-hand.
All he has to do is take out Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, and quit smoking.
Get your copy of Justin Alcala's A DEAD END JOB today and find out if Buck has what it takes!
🕰️⛓️💀QOTD: What role within a rebellion would you play?💀⛓️🕰️
A new threat, internal strife, and outside forces may ruin Taryn's rebellion. Though freedom lies on the horizon, a single moment can change the outcome of war. Will the biomaton army succeed?
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.
10/27/2025
🌟💀👑QOTD: Would you go to war against your own family if it was what's right?👑💀🌟
Izzy and Fray return in Celia McMahon's UNCAGED. In the second novel from the Unspoken Trilogy, Izzy will have to decide where her loyalties lie as war brews in her kingdom. Will she return home to her father's side? Or will she stay with Fray to protect her new home and found family?
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After escaping Stormwall, Izzy and Fray have finally crossed through the Archway and into the Old Kingdom in search of allies. But finding a place within Fray’s former pack is harder than they imagined.
When Izzy’s father warred with the Gwylis, he made a lifelong enemy of the Rowan name. Fray’s betrayal—siding with Aquarius in the war—makes him no less an enemy to the pack. Meanwhile, Izzy struggles to understand her newfound magic and build a relationship with her found family, but when the new king’s soldiers arrive in the Old Kingdom, Izzy must fight to protect her new home.
With war looming once again, Izzy is thrust back into the life she tried to leave behind. As danger mounts, the past, present, and future collide as historical wounds are reopened, and the lines of allegiances are drawn.
Izzy must decide who she is willing to fight for, and where her loyalties truly lie.
10/21/2025
👻💀🗡️QOTD: What's your comfort drink?🗡️💀👻
Arthur Crazy had one too many comfort drinks and now is hungover, but the dead couldn't care less. Disaster has come to York and Arthur is the only one strong enough to stop it. That is, once he's back in hero shape.
Will Arthur save the day once again? Find out in A. B. Finlayson's 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.
10/20/2025
✨☁️✨QOTD: What would you do to uncover the truth behind an ancient prophecy?✨☁️✨
As the Phantasmer, Sylvia brought order to the Fairy courts. Now, if only she could reign over the chaos in her own life…
It’s been three months since Sylvia used her powers to rewrite the ruling structure of Fairy, dismantling the Seelie and Unseelie courts. Recovered from her injuries, she’s back at school and struggling to balance her “real” life against the much more immediate (and exciting) world that magic has to offer. Not to mention the distraction of her utterly hot and completely fish-out-of-water boyfriend.
But in Fairy, there are rumblings that an ancient prophecy is on the cusp of fruition.
“Beware the coming of the one who should not have been, for he shall bring with him the end of days. Take back the mantle, or all will be lost.”
Will Sylvia be able to uncover the truth behind the prophecy, learn how to use her ever-growing powers without risking her relationship, and convince her best friend Fiona that it’s not weird that her boyfriend is a thousand years old? It won’t be easy.
See what happens next im Sylvia's story in I WALK ALONE by Wren Handman!
Maeve's dream about her friend's ex dying has come true. Peri's dreams are filled with a mysterious stranger that they find themself hunting for. As their dreams begin to blend with reality, Maeve and Peri will have to find one another to prevent the collapse of reality. Will the dreamers manage to stop the real world from becoming an illusion?
Find out happens when reality begins to unravel in 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.
10/13/2025
🌀💀🌊QOTD: If your brother disappeared, would you handle it yourself or wait for the authorities?🌊💀🌀
In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappeared while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won’t rest until she finds out what happened to him. Defying her father’s orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry is known to have visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t quite meet Sorrow’s eyes when she asks about her brother.
When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve been torn apart by something not quite human, Sorrow is ready to return to Baltimore and let her father send in the professional detectives.
However, after meeting Ada Oliver, a widow whose black silk dresses and elegant manners set her apart from other Tidepool residents, Sorrow discovers Tidepool’s dark, deadly secret.
With this discovery, some denizens of Tidepool—human and otherwise—are hell-bent on making sure Sorrow never leaves their forsaken town.
Nicole Willson's TIDEPOOL is available now! Get your copy today and help Sorrow solve her brother's disappearance!
You know how Paul's story began, now see how it ends in Ryan Leslie's THE GARDEN OF BEFORE!
Paul Prentice's life has been downhill since the battle with Koŝmaro and it doesn't seem to be getting better any time soon. He's received a message that his loved ones are being held in the Between. He'll have to play the game once more if he wants to save them...and himself...from certain doom.
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.
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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.
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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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