in 2004, it was reported that 'Hertzan Chimera had been laid to rest' by his solemn creator and Oxford-based artist/critic Mike Philbin would from then on be 'a good boy' once again, writing his mass-market-friendly novels and trilogies to appease the hapless reading public...
BUT YOU WERE LIED TO
...all this time, that nasty little
Hertzan Chimera or 'keyboard persona' was beavering away, behind the key-smoothed fingerprints of Philbin, helping him carve insidious injuries into all that narrative noise. Those 'Mike Philbin' books you thought you shouldn't buy because they may have lost all that psychiatric Chimera-edge... log back in to your online distributor of choice. And be brave in your H.C.-purchases. Re-read these old Chimera titles for the first time, knowing that
The Master of Reader Hatred was shoving blunt knives into your pies all along.
Chimericana Books has recently re-issued all thirteen novels of
Mike
Philbin under his
dirty-old-bastard pseudonym Hertzan Chimera because it's all you deserve.
to commemorate HUR or
His Unholy Resurrection, Chimericana Books has re-released Hertzan Chimera's seminal short story collection as a Kindle exclusive. "Animal Instincts" by Hertzan Chimera is a collection of twenty-three violent and obscene short stories with a theme of 'animalia' and other assorted beastliness - many of which supplied material for his later "Free Planet vs War World" novel dual/duelling trilogies.
First published in 2003 in large-format fully-illustrated paperback by Double Dragon Press of Canada, Chimericana Books has republished Animal Instincts with the cover based on one of Mitch Phillips drawings for H.C.'s lurid
Five Horned Bull story.
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| OUT NOW |
ANIMAL INSTINCTS
A collection of twenty-three violent and obscene short stories.
Stories and cover design © 2003-2015 Mike Philbin
Cover illustration © Mitch Phillips 2003
Contents
LAST EXIT FROM SOUR TOWN
BEAST O’ BUXTON COUNTY
LOMAS BRANE
FAMILY TRAIN
SHRAPNEL GIRL
TOURETTE’S WIDOW
GETAWAY GIRL
FIVE HORNED BULL
BEER GIRLZ
SHATTERED SPELL
CARAVAN BOY
LEPIDOPTERIST
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
KEVLAR KUBEZ
KETSU NO ANA DE YATTA KOTO ARU
STAYER
SHE GIVES ME THE FEAR
GET ME OUTTA HERE
LOVE SONGS
PUSSYCAT PYRE
AKIDO WHORE
VISITORS
BATTLESHIPS
Here are some great author-quotes from back in the HC-daze that are about to make their way onto the paperback covers for the "
Free Planet vs War World" dual/duelling trilogoies.
"Hertzan Chimera is destined for great fame -- solid gold planes and caviar squeezed from endangered fish. Know him! Embrace him! And ultimately -- worship him!" -- Mark McLaughlin, author of GOSSAMER EYE and MOTIVATIONAL SKRIEKER.
"Hertzan Chimera is both monster rant and taboo heat. His primal work clutches me in both G-spot and brain--and everywhere else in between." --Charlee Jacob, author of THIS SYMBIOTIC FASCINATION and HAUNTER.
"When I say that Hertzan Chimera's writings make me want to throw up, I mean that only in a good way. He's a major contender in the gross-out arena; his work is a hallmark of creative outrage." --Edward Lee, author of CITY INFERNAL and MONSTROSITY.
"Hertzan Chimera is the Henry Miller of Our Time. He has remortgaged the Horror/SF ghetto, replacing it with a Garrethouse of the Psycho-Erotic on the Left Bank of the Seine." --MF Korn, author of RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST and CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL.
"As a longtime fan of the outre and fiction of the abject, I can say that very little of what I read anymore shocks, revolts, scares, or disturbs me. But Hertzan Chimera manages to do it every time. " --Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of GRAVE MARKINGS and FREAKCIDENTS.
"Chimera's conflagrations raze cities of the human mind while his sickly dogs twitch in the burning bones of entropy." --James Havoc, author of RAISM and SATANSKIN.
"Hertzan Chimera and I raided the panty patch together from 2002-2004. During that time he screamed, bounded, lacked, compensated, and innovated. He kept things interesting, which is more than you can say for any hundreds of authors combined." --John Edward Lawson, author of Last Burn in Hell
...but Mike, "Hertzan Chimera, why is he back from the grave?"
"In 2004, I publicly killed off my 'Hertzan Chimera' writing
persona or keyboard entity. Now, twelve years hence, I realise I have
been writing nothing but Hertzan Chimera novels and can no longer bear
to see my 'real name' on his book covers. Hertzan Chimera never died and his novels are what
they are. Hertzan Chimera novels is how they'll be remembered. Long live HC-unit." -- Mike Philbin, August 2015
Stay tuned for more hair-raising updates in coming months, including the new
Lorien Howell novel THE DREAM DETECTIVE AGENCY (book one ...the case of the missing century) and the new Hertzan Chimera collaborative novel (with performance artist Hecate aka Rachael Kozak) VENOMIST.
