Mike Philbin
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Mike Philbin is an artist, editor and author currently residing in Oxford, UK. He spent the late eighties and early nineties exhibiting his brand of psycho-realist paintings in one-man shows in St Helens, Liverpool and London.
Philbin's novel-writing career began in 1989 when Creation Books published his psycho-erotic novel Red Hedz (under the pseudonym Michael Paul Peter). His short story writing career began back in 1985 with prose pieces in the New York publication Dreams & Nightmares. Most of Philbin's writing has been published under the pseudonym Hertzan Chimera, though other pseudonyms include Cabbage Patch Doll, Jane Louxis and Vierland Brecke.
Philbin recently started publishing stories and novels under his own name for the first time in twenty years.
[edit] Published Titles
- 1989 Red Hedz (by Michael Paul Peter) - novel, Creation Books (ISBN 1-871592-02-X )
- 2000 Neurone Fry Up (by Hertzan Chimera) - short story collection, Eraserhead Press
- 2001 Szmonhfu (by Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Eraserhead Press (ISBN 0-9713572-4-2 )
- 2002 Animal Instincts (by Hertzan Chimera) - fully-illustrated short story collection, Double Dragon Press (illustrator Mitch Phillips) (ISBN 1-55404-111-2 )
- 2003 BoyFistGirlSuck - collaborative short story collection, Massacre Publishing, (female writing partner Alex Severin).
- 2003 Chim+Her - collaborative short story collection, Cyber Pulp Press, (female writing partners Destiny West, Queenie Tirone, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Charlee Jacob, Amy Grech, Christina Sng, Alex Severin).
- 2003 Chim+Him - collaborative short story collection, Cyber Pulp Press, (male writing partners Simon Logan, Mark McLaughlin, Vincent Sakowski, Greg Wharton, John Edward Lawson, D.F. Lewis and M.F. Korn).
- 2005 Jane's Game (by Mike Philbin) - novel, Chimericana Books (ISBN 1-4116-5155-3)
- 2005 The Best of Him+Chim+Her - collaborative short story collection, Chimericana Books (female writing partners Destiny West, Queenie Tirone, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Charlee Jacob, Amy Grech, Christina Sng, Alex Severin, male writing partners Simon Logan, Mark McLaughlin, Vincent Sakowski, Greg Wharton, John Edward Lawson, D.F. Lewis and M.F. Korn) (ISBN -4116-5052-2)
- 2005 Horror Quarterly - retrospective of the first three issues of defunct extreme rock/horror website Horror Quarterly, Chimericana Books (ISBN 1-4116-5409-9)
- 2005 The Life and Death of Hertzan Chimera (by Mike Philbin) - biography of an invented persona, Chimericana Books (ISBN 1-4116-4927-3)
- 2006 Twilight's Last Gleaming (by Mike Philbin, writing as Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Chimericana Books
- 2006 The Hoo-Hoo Are Coming (by Mike Philbin, writing as Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Chimericana Books
[edit] Chimeraworld
In 2005, Philbin launched his small publishing venture, Chimericana Books in order to bring out further issues of the Chimeraworld anthology (originally published by Cyper Pulp Press, defunct)..
There have so far been four issues of Chimeraworld, edited and published by Mike Philbin through Chimericana Books - each issue contains 23 short stories based on specific detailed guidelines and themes.
Chimeraworld #1 (23 extreme tales) was a pure 'grand guignol' festival of all things subversive, horrific and insane. (ISBN 1-4116-4863-3)
Chimeraworld #2 (hell is a sorry s**t hole) was the chillled-out downer-antidote to the previous year's gory excesses. (ISBN 1-4116-4836-6)
Chimeraworld #3 (atheist, misogynist, terrorist) was back to basics with 23 stories that touch on one or more of these provocative themes. (ISBN 1-4116-7093-0)
Chimeraworld #4 (all cars must die) is all about the global poison that is the modern motor car (due for publication Xmas 2006).
