Mike Philbin
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| Pseudonym: | Hertzan Chimera |
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| Born: | Jan 14, 1966 St Helens, Merseyside |
| Occupation: | Writer/artist |
| Nationality: | English |
| Genres: | genreclectic |
| Subjects: | body horror, psycho-erotica |
| Debut works: | Abattoir Girl in Dreams & Nightmares #23, 1988 |
| Influences: | Salvador Dali, David Cronenberg |
| Website: | http://www.mikephilbin.com |
Mike Philbin (born 1966 in St Helens, Merseyside) is an artist, editor and author who, as of 1996, resides in Oxford in the United Kingdom. He spent the late 1980s and early 1990s exhibiting his brand of psycho-realist paintings in one-man shows in St Helens, Liverpool and London.
According to MobyGames' developer database, Philbin was a 3D character artist/animator on the PlayStation games Medievil and MediEvil II and lead character artist/animator on the PC game Ghost Master.
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 1988 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 is an advocate of the collaborative fiction form and his collaborative book projects are listed below.
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- 1989 Red Hedz (as Michael Paul Peter) - novel, Creation Books (ISBN 1-871592-02-X )
- 2000 Neurone Fry Up (as Hertzan Chimera) - short story collection, Eraserhead Press
- 2001 Szmonhfu (as Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Eraserhead Press (ISBN 0-9713572-4-2 )
- 2002 Animal Instincts (as 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 - 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 1411650522
- 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 - biography of an invented persona, Chimericana Books (ISBN 1-4116-4927-3)
- 2006 Twilight's Last Gleaming (as Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Chimericana Books
- 2006 The Hoo-Hoo Are Coming (as Hertzan Chimera) - novel, Chimericana Books
[edit] Chimeraworld
Chimeraworld is an anthology of extreme writing from around the world edited by Mike Philbin and published annually through Chimericana Books. The themed guidelines deal with socio-political and moral issues of our contemporary world.
[edit] Chimeraworld 1, 2004
theme - grand guignol, body horror and altered states of perception.
Contents
- THE PERFECT CUNT - C.C. Parker
- LETTER TO GIOTTO - W. Bill Czolgosz
- THE WOMAN FROM THE PLACE OF THE STONES - Greg Beatty
- MOTHER'S LAST WISH - John Peters
- LOVE NEST - L. Marie Wood
- THE LAND OF ELECTRIC FIRE - Latricia L. Lane
- A MATTER OF ETHICS - T.M. Gray
- BORING, BORING, BORING - Ken Goldman
- STRANGE BREED - Queenie Tirone
- IN THE DARKNESS - Jaime L. Burvato
- THE MAN WITH THE ABSINTHE EYES - Alex Severin
- FOR THAT YOU PAY EXTRA - William S. Brock
- ADVERTISING AGE - polycarp kusch
- FERALUST - Joseph Miles
- WEB - Kevin Anderson
- ABACUS SLIDING - J. M. Heluk
- FIXING DAD'S MICE - Isaac Fellows
- SWIMMING IN ENDLESS NIGHT - Kevin L. Donihe
- STICK - Tony Richards
- RESCUING LAURA - S.J. Hinton
- NEED - Steve Short
- TWELVE HELLS OF THE HELL LICKER - John Edward Lawson
- UGLY LITTLE FUCK - Rickey Windell George
[edit] Chimeraworld 2, 2005
theme - orphans, decay and depression.
Contents
- DAMP - Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis*
- THE DANCE - Brian W Keen
- THE STAGNANT PONDS - Kurt Newton
- A TASTE FOR DEFORMITY - Dustin LaValley*
- THE ABORTION PEOPLE - David L Tamarin
- IT'S YOUR TURN - Derek Gunn
- TWISTED JUSTICE - Michele Acker
- THIS COLOSSAL WRECK or Fuck You and the Virus You Rode in On - Anthony Cain
- CUNT - William D. Carl*
- THE FORT - Glen Alan Hamilton
- ASKING FOR IT - Quentin S Crisp*
- EMBALMING 101 - J. M. Heluk
- AT THE ORPHANAGE - Charles Richard Laing
- DREAM LOVER - Ken Goldman
- BLIND FEELING - Nicholas Alan Tillemans
- GREY LOVE - Suzanne Church
- FIZZ - Eric Shapiro
- LITTLE BOY BLUE - Tony Richards.
- BIRDCAGE - Karen James
- SIN AND SORROW - John Meany
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHILDREN - Andrew Zimmerman Jones
- THE FINAL WAIT - Richard Lee
- THE FORGOTTEN - Destiny West
[edit] Chimeraworld 3, 2006
theme - misogyny, atheism and terrorism.
Contents
- THE TEST - Ralph Greco, Jr.
- THREE-HEAD FULL FISH TANK - Dean R. Winters
- FEED THE MACHINE - Michael De Kler
- SPREADING THE LOVE - Jenny Ashford
- MISFORTUNE SMILES TOO - Nicholas Alan Tillemans
- CAVE DWELLER - C. C. Parker
- FAMILIAR FACES - Joshua Scribner
- CHANGED HIS MIND - Sean Logan
- PATIENT VIRTUES - Chet Gottfried
- MOUSER - D.L. Snell
- KEY MAN - C.L. Russo
- CRUSH FREAK - Anthony Armstrong
- STENCH MAN KILLER BOY - Paul Pinn*
- AT THE SOUND OF THE TONE - Tim McDaniel
- TRUE CROSS - Will McIntosh
- TEN WARNINGS - Michael A. Kechula
- MR. ARNOLD'S WINDOW - Kevin James Miller
- MEESTER CLIN & THE SECRET OF THE PAIN-MAKERS - Richard Pitaniello
- THE BARK THAT BITES - Richard D. Moore
- BALLOON - Liam Davies
- WHAT SOLDIERS DO - Tonya Price
- I FEEL THE NEED - Glen Alan Hamilton
- TOP O' THE NEWS - David L. Tamarin
[edit] Chimeraworld 4, 2007
theme - car-hatred, car-lust, car-nage.
Contents
- THE MOTOR BOYS - Mark Zirbel
- THE SEAT - Christina Kinnan*
- BROKEN - Paul Murray Collrin
- PAINTED WINDOWS - Jenny Ashford
- I LOVE MY CAR - Liam Davies
- CAR LOVER - Courtney Burback
- LENNY - Mark Robyn
- TINGLES - M.P. Johnson
- BETTY ACID - Tyler Runde
- BONES, CHROME AND THE OCCASIONAL ODD BUTTERFLY - J. M. Heluk
- DRIVING HER HOME - Kelly Stevens
- SHE TURNED EVERY HEAD IN TOWN - Ken Goldman
- A DREAM OF AN ENDLESS HIGHWAY - Ray Wallace
- ROAD RAGE - Gerard Brennan
- 405 - Brad C. Hodson
- GO! GO! GO! - M. Jones
- THE ONE FATE DARED - Suzanne Burns
- MY STOMACH HURTS WHERE I'VE BEEN STABBED - Jeff Drake
- BREAKING DOWN ON THE HIGHWAY OF MISSING CEMETERIES - Cameron Pierce
- MECHANICAL LIFE, MECHANICAL DEATH - Sean Rickards
- THE LOST HIGHWAY - David Mitchell Turnbull
- GOING NOWHERE FAST - Kek-W
- BETWEEN HIS SKIN AND BONES - Alex Severin
Those Chimeraworld stories marked* received Honorable Mentions in their respective Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, St Martins Press, USA (editor Ellen Datlow).
