THE BONNIE & CLYDE OF SEX-HORROR FICTION
A brand new interview with those bad boys of sex-horror fiction Hertzan Chimera and Alex Severin, the co-authors of BFGS, goes online at DARK FIRE.
For those of you who know your movies - the similarity was intentional.
Tombstone Award-winning writer of various extreme short story collections, collaborations and thirteen novels.
Monday, June 30, 2003
Thursday, June 26, 2003
MORE HERTZAN CHIMERA BOOK REVIEWS
Not content with reviewing just one book for Feo Amante, Hertzan Chimera has recently submitted another book review, this time DEAD SLEEP by Greg Iles. A great book and a strong recommendation. The review should be live on Feo Amante's website my mid July. Hopefully this spells the start of a new phase of Chimera's output.
I'll update the review link some time in July - the above live link takes you direct to Feo Amante.
Not content with reviewing just one book for Feo Amante, Hertzan Chimera has recently submitted another book review, this time DEAD SLEEP by Greg Iles. A great book and a strong recommendation. The review should be live on Feo Amante's website my mid July. Hopefully this spells the start of a new phase of Chimera's output.
I'll update the review link some time in July - the above live link takes you direct to Feo Amante.
Monday, June 23, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA REVIEWS FOR FEO AMANTE
It was sorta done in an arse over tit fashion but in effect where the review was written as a 'commission' from the publisher and then a home found for it, but ... in effect have reviewed the female fiction collection FEMMES DE LA BRUME from Double Dragon Publishing for the (400,000 reader a month) horror site Feo Amante - which looks kinda nice on the C.V.
check it out by clicking on the title link.
It was sorta done in an arse over tit fashion but in effect where the review was written as a 'commission' from the publisher and then a home found for it, but ... in effect have reviewed the female fiction collection FEMMES DE LA BRUME from Double Dragon Publishing for the (400,000 reader a month) horror site Feo Amante - which looks kinda nice on the C.V.
check it out by clicking on the title link.
Friday, June 20, 2003
THE HERTZAN CHIMERA NEWSLETTER
Good morning from sunny Oxford.
Yes, I am English, and dropping out of my winter depressive hibernation I can only say that the rays are good. Oh, yes.
Had another busy batch of writing and editing and promoting: but first of all.
A big thank you to all you news-hungry devils - this Hertzan Chimera Newsletter list has fair exploded with subscribers in recent times. Gives one a good feeling inside. Hey now that the ball's rolling, we gotta evangelise Hertzan Chimera's ass all over the Western and Eastern worlds. Let the world know that the genre barriers to creative fiction are coming down, guys.
News 1: BFGS to be relaunched.
Due to the obvious potential (thanks in general to the #1 Bestseller position last week on Shocklines) the Chimera/Severin collaborative fiction collection available in trade paperback from Shocklines.com and www.boyfistgirlsuck.co.uk and in ebook version from www.double-dragon-ebooks.com is being relaunched with a brand new cover (art by Mike Philbin) and remarketed to a whole new mass market audience by both publishers.
News 2: another banning for BFGS.
BFGS was due to be reviewed on a site called The Muse Apprentice Guild. Got a terse mail from the editor saying "Due to financial concerns" we can no longer support work of this nature. This after they published THREE of my stories just last issue.
News 3: Chim & Her is in first draft.
Last night, I completed the first draft of the collaborative extreme horror and psychological fiction collection Chim & Her. Basically, it's Hertzan Chimera collaborating with 8 of today's hardest ladies of words on 24 short stories. And boy, it's grown to quite a project since its inception (conception?) in January this year. The prose is of a quality and ferocity that (frankly) stunned me. Watch out for this one soon.
Good morning from sunny Oxford.
Yes, I am English, and dropping out of my winter depressive hibernation I can only say that the rays are good. Oh, yes.
Had another busy batch of writing and editing and promoting: but first of all.
A big thank you to all you news-hungry devils - this Hertzan Chimera Newsletter list has fair exploded with subscribers in recent times. Gives one a good feeling inside. Hey now that the ball's rolling, we gotta evangelise Hertzan Chimera's ass all over the Western and Eastern worlds. Let the world know that the genre barriers to creative fiction are coming down, guys.
News 1: BFGS to be relaunched.
Due to the obvious potential (thanks in general to the #1 Bestseller position last week on Shocklines) the Chimera/Severin collaborative fiction collection available in trade paperback from Shocklines.com and www.boyfistgirlsuck.co.uk and in ebook version from www.double-dragon-ebooks.com is being relaunched with a brand new cover (art by Mike Philbin) and remarketed to a whole new mass market audience by both publishers.
News 2: another banning for BFGS.
BFGS was due to be reviewed on a site called The Muse Apprentice Guild. Got a terse mail from the editor saying "Due to financial concerns" we can no longer support work of this nature. This after they published THREE of my stories just last issue.
News 3: Chim & Her is in first draft.
Last night, I completed the first draft of the collaborative extreme horror and psychological fiction collection Chim & Her. Basically, it's Hertzan Chimera collaborating with 8 of today's hardest ladies of words on 24 short stories. And boy, it's grown to quite a project since its inception (conception?) in January this year. The prose is of a quality and ferocity that (frankly) stunned me. Watch out for this one soon.
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA AND ERASERHEAD PRESS PART COMPANY
Well, it's been on the cards for like six months now but finally, Hertzan Chimera woke up and smelled the coffee. Eraserhead Press is (and maybe always has been) merely the publishing vehicle for it's owner Carlton Mellick III and anyone else published by them runs the risk of not being sufficiently promoted or marketed as a writer.
All rights (other than ebook rights which DDP are actively exercising for a contractual period) to Hertzan Chimera novels SZMONHFU (100, 000 words - published in 2001 as a trade paperback) and UNITED STATES (80,000 words - never released) revert to the author with this announcement.
You know, you can only plug your own material so far then you gotta stand back and say, "Wait a minute, shouldn't the publisher be getting his hands dirty, too?"
When you realise that, you can only back out and look elsewhere for representation.
Well, it's been on the cards for like six months now but finally, Hertzan Chimera woke up and smelled the coffee. Eraserhead Press is (and maybe always has been) merely the publishing vehicle for it's owner Carlton Mellick III and anyone else published by them runs the risk of not being sufficiently promoted or marketed as a writer.
All rights (other than ebook rights which DDP are actively exercising for a contractual period) to Hertzan Chimera novels SZMONHFU (100, 000 words - published in 2001 as a trade paperback) and UNITED STATES (80,000 words - never released) revert to the author with this announcement.
You know, you can only plug your own material so far then you gotta stand back and say, "Wait a minute, shouldn't the publisher be getting his hands dirty, too?"
When you realise that, you can only back out and look elsewhere for representation.
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
BOYFISTGIRLSUCK #1 BESTSELLER @ SHOCKLINES
As of the week beginning the 8th of June, Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin have struck gold with pole position on SHOCKLINES DISTRIBUTION bestseller in-stock list for their extreme sex-horror collection BOYFISTGIRLSUCK.
Number one!
As of the week beginning the 8th of June, Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin have struck gold with pole position on SHOCKLINES DISTRIBUTION bestseller in-stock list for their extreme sex-horror collection BOYFISTGIRLSUCK.
Number one!
Sunday, June 08, 2003
PEER APPROVAL FOR CHIMERA'S "UNITED STATES"
As Hertzan Chimera's second Eraserhead Press trade paperback "United States" races for the printing press, here's a list of the superstars of horror who have cover-quoted it's ass all over this bee-atch!
"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. UNITED STATES is a romp through the dark lands of the free mind. Fans of William Burroughs and should rejoice -- he's been reincarnated for the new century in Hertzan Chimera. This is Naked Lunch on nuclear acid. Rated X for Xtra demented." --Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of GRAVE MARKINGS and FREAKCIDENTS.
This is a wonderful ego-shine and hopefully a pointer to millions of sales.
As Hertzan Chimera's second Eraserhead Press trade paperback "United States" races for the printing press, here's a list of the superstars of horror who have cover-quoted it's ass all over this bee-atch!
"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. UNITED STATES is a romp through the dark lands of the free mind. Fans of William Burroughs and should rejoice -- he's been reincarnated for the new century in Hertzan Chimera. This is Naked Lunch on nuclear acid. Rated X for Xtra demented." --Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of GRAVE MARKINGS and FREAKCIDENTS.
This is a wonderful ego-shine and hopefully a pointer to millions of sales.
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
BOYFISTGIRLSUCK BANNED AGAIN
News Flash:- Not only did the mass-market alternative lifestyle mag SWAG ban the BFGS advert, ebook distributor Fictionwise has now refused to take on Chimera & Severin's magnus opus of sex and slaughter. If this continues, the damn book is gonna get a bad rep.
:)
What is wrong with Freedom Of Speech in the U.S. of A.?
News Flash:- Not only did the mass-market alternative lifestyle mag SWAG ban the BFGS advert, ebook distributor Fictionwise has now refused to take on Chimera & Severin's magnus opus of sex and slaughter. If this continues, the damn book is gonna get a bad rep.
:)
What is wrong with Freedom Of Speech in the U.S. of A.?
Monday, June 02, 2003
ANIMAL INSTINCTS collection reviewed by Gary West
Another brand new review, this time from Gary West writing for THE DREAM PEOPLE ezine.
ANIMAL INSTINCTS review
Long one of my favorite writers, Chimera once again delivers his own uniquely pungent mix of surrealism, erotica and splatterpunk in this collection of 32 short stories that asks the question: “What would happen if you transplanted animal mores, needs and instincts into contemporary cultural settings?” The answer can scarcely be summed up in the few examples I have set below, but I hope to at least give you an idea of what to expect.
First off we have “Shrapnel Girl” where a middle-aged man stalks the woman of his dreams…and of his nightmares. Set in the grungy back streets of what can only be Los Angeles, this tale invokes the almost always-irrational thought process of a man who is obsessed and obsessive.
In “Misogynistiqe” we are warned about the dangers of adultery and deception, and how sometimes art imitates life.
“She Gives Me the Fear” chronicles a man’s hellish descent into madness and the results of that fall.
My favorite piece in this collection is the experimental and bizarre “Dog Murder.” Focusing on what can happen when humans and animals are brought together through unnatural processes this story is strangely reminiscent of H. G. Wells’ “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” and just as fascinating.
Overall, “Animal Instincts” is an excellent read and I highly recommend it but be forewarned, it’s not for the faint of heart and it may cause the beast within you to come bubbling to the surface.
reviewed by Gary West
Another brand new review, this time from Gary West writing for THE DREAM PEOPLE ezine.
ANIMAL INSTINCTS review
Long one of my favorite writers, Chimera once again delivers his own uniquely pungent mix of surrealism, erotica and splatterpunk in this collection of 32 short stories that asks the question: “What would happen if you transplanted animal mores, needs and instincts into contemporary cultural settings?” The answer can scarcely be summed up in the few examples I have set below, but I hope to at least give you an idea of what to expect.
First off we have “Shrapnel Girl” where a middle-aged man stalks the woman of his dreams…and of his nightmares. Set in the grungy back streets of what can only be Los Angeles, this tale invokes the almost always-irrational thought process of a man who is obsessed and obsessive.
In “Misogynistiqe” we are warned about the dangers of adultery and deception, and how sometimes art imitates life.
“She Gives Me the Fear” chronicles a man’s hellish descent into madness and the results of that fall.
My favorite piece in this collection is the experimental and bizarre “Dog Murder.” Focusing on what can happen when humans and animals are brought together through unnatural processes this story is strangely reminiscent of H. G. Wells’ “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” and just as fascinating.
Overall, “Animal Instincts” is an excellent read and I highly recommend it but be forewarned, it’s not for the faint of heart and it may cause the beast within you to come bubbling to the surface.
reviewed by Gary West
Sunday, June 01, 2003
HE TOOK AN AXE TO HIS WORK and freed his tongue
In a former life, the main focus was paintings, lifesize oil-on-hardboard, psycho-erotic and financially worthless.
Five years ago, the man that would become the horror author Hertzan Chimera took an axe to his visual therapy. Here's an indepth interview on a site called ART OF HORROR - reasons to be cheerful; 1, 2, 3.
enjoy!
In a former life, the main focus was paintings, lifesize oil-on-hardboard, psycho-erotic and financially worthless.
Five years ago, the man that would become the horror author Hertzan Chimera took an axe to his visual therapy. Here's an indepth interview on a site called ART OF HORROR - reasons to be cheerful; 1, 2, 3.
enjoy!
Friday, May 30, 2003
UNITED STATES REVIEWED by Mark Samuels
A brand new review has just come through for the forthcoming second Hertzan Chimera trade paperback novel from Eraserhead Press (due for publication this summer from Eraserhead Press) - it's a corker because it's from me old mukka Mister Mark Samuels:
UNITED STATES review:
What do you do when you get a manuscript through the post that is an act of terrorism? I don't mean your white powder masquerading as anthrax wimp out act of terrorism but a fucked-up work of fiction that's been spewed from a printer that's broken down a quarter of the way through the job? I mean a work of fiction that's been stuck in a drawer by its author for years because he himself shat his pants on reading it? Do you stick the mss on the top of your computer and leave it to gather dust? I did.
But tonight I've taken it down and finally got around to reading the bastard. Since I know the author, one Hertzie Chimera, and I know the kind of sick fuck he is, and the sort of mind-screwing prose he likes to fashion, I confess: it was a daunting proposition.
In a work whose characters are named after the states of the final superpower, in a world where the certainties of Cold War M.A.D. have given way to James Bond villains like Saddam and Bin Laden, do we hail Hertzie as a prophet or a madman? Perhaps a prophet masquerading as a madman? Maybe even vice versa..
"Do you expect me to review?"
"No, I expect you to die Mr Samuels".
Now it's true that this reviewer has done his fair share of drugs, aspired to be a burnt-out De Quincey with a hard on, a remote control and a copy of "Buffy Goes to Strap-On Manor", but nothing prepared him for the mental gang rape and snuff ecstasy that is Hertzie's UNITED STATES. Anything before this book is a waste of your time. Even life. Because (and weren't you taught at school not to start a sentence with "because"?) life is a poor imitation of, no not art, but drugs. That's right. But in the UNITED STATES you don't need cash. The American Dream is right here. You can let those little ol' glands fire up some free serotonin or adrenaline or sperm. Whatever.
Enlightenment. Or Damnation. It's up to you. Choose your side. I know I have.
reviewed by Mark Samuels, author, bon viveur.
A brand new review has just come through for the forthcoming second Hertzan Chimera trade paperback novel from Eraserhead Press (due for publication this summer from Eraserhead Press) - it's a corker because it's from me old mukka Mister Mark Samuels:
UNITED STATES review:
What do you do when you get a manuscript through the post that is an act of terrorism? I don't mean your white powder masquerading as anthrax wimp out act of terrorism but a fucked-up work of fiction that's been spewed from a printer that's broken down a quarter of the way through the job? I mean a work of fiction that's been stuck in a drawer by its author for years because he himself shat his pants on reading it? Do you stick the mss on the top of your computer and leave it to gather dust? I did.
But tonight I've taken it down and finally got around to reading the bastard. Since I know the author, one Hertzie Chimera, and I know the kind of sick fuck he is, and the sort of mind-screwing prose he likes to fashion, I confess: it was a daunting proposition.
In a work whose characters are named after the states of the final superpower, in a world where the certainties of Cold War M.A.D. have given way to James Bond villains like Saddam and Bin Laden, do we hail Hertzie as a prophet or a madman? Perhaps a prophet masquerading as a madman? Maybe even vice versa..
"Do you expect me to review?"
"No, I expect you to die Mr Samuels".
Now it's true that this reviewer has done his fair share of drugs, aspired to be a burnt-out De Quincey with a hard on, a remote control and a copy of "Buffy Goes to Strap-On Manor", but nothing prepared him for the mental gang rape and snuff ecstasy that is Hertzie's UNITED STATES. Anything before this book is a waste of your time. Even life. Because (and weren't you taught at school not to start a sentence with "because"?) life is a poor imitation of, no not art, but drugs. That's right. But in the UNITED STATES you don't need cash. The American Dream is right here. You can let those little ol' glands fire up some free serotonin or adrenaline or sperm. Whatever.
Enlightenment. Or Damnation. It's up to you. Choose your side. I know I have.
reviewed by Mark Samuels, author, bon viveur.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
VIXEN-NAKED ULTRA-LUNCHEON, for the record
There is an erotic horror story on Horror Authors Network called Vixen-Naked Ultra-Luncheon by Hertzan Chimera that amassed an amazing 4,000+ reads in an older incarnation of the site when other stories scraped through barely 1,000 reads.
It was at the number one Gallows Top Ten Most Wanted slot for something in the region of six months (!) Eventually, a story by Brian A Hopkins knocked it off the top spot. But there was something quite odd about this dethroning as it seemed to be getting far fewer reads per week than Chimera's old number one.
Horror Authors Network recently updated its site to a better server and reset its counters on each story page.
Again, Chimera's extreme sex horror piece has garnered more reads than any other writer bar Alex Severin by a factor of about ten.
If you look at the figures it should read:
1) Vixen-Naked Ultra-Luncheon by Hertzan Chimera (160 reads)
2) Bad Habit by alex Severin (130 reads)
3) Bullet Sex by Hertzan Chimera (120 reads)
4) Bad Habit2 by Alex Severin (90 reads)
the rest are languishing down in the tens and twenties.
There is an erotic horror story on Horror Authors Network called Vixen-Naked Ultra-Luncheon by Hertzan Chimera that amassed an amazing 4,000+ reads in an older incarnation of the site when other stories scraped through barely 1,000 reads.
It was at the number one Gallows Top Ten Most Wanted slot for something in the region of six months (!) Eventually, a story by Brian A Hopkins knocked it off the top spot. But there was something quite odd about this dethroning as it seemed to be getting far fewer reads per week than Chimera's old number one.
Horror Authors Network recently updated its site to a better server and reset its counters on each story page.
Again, Chimera's extreme sex horror piece has garnered more reads than any other writer bar Alex Severin by a factor of about ten.
If you look at the figures it should read:
1) Vixen-Naked Ultra-Luncheon by Hertzan Chimera (160 reads)
2) Bad Habit by alex Severin (130 reads)
3) Bullet Sex by Hertzan Chimera (120 reads)
4) Bad Habit2 by Alex Severin (90 reads)
the rest are languishing down in the tens and twenties.
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA PUT UNDER THE COSH
Hertzan Chimera lays his soul bare in the sordid name of promotion of his published works and his subversive writing life.
REALM GOTHICA - a feast for the eyes & mind.
SHADOWS OF THE MARQUIS - a Misery inspired S&M inquisition.
SUSPECT THOUGHTS - a Blade Runner inspired interrogation.
ETERNAL NIGHT - a very 'informative' interview, raison d'etre and all that.
NEVERMORE MAGAZINE - Queenie Tirone, horror editor exposes Hertzan Chimera's greatest fears of his past, present and future.
THE DREAM PEOPLE (Inquisitor: John Lawson) - think De Sade chrashlands his time machine in Orwell's 1984 - let's see how Hertzan Chimera likes it up him!
SCARY VOICES - Hertzan Chimera spouts his filth all over the place in this scandalous monologue.
VAMPYRE EROTICA - this wonderful Blood Fetish site hosts The BANNED Brutal Judgement interview.
HOUSE OF PAIN - The legendary Dominatrix, Wraith, takes on Chimera & Severin!
FRIGHT WEB - FrightWeb trap Chimera & Severin in their interview killing jar!
REALLY SCARY - Harry Shannon gathers Hertzan Chimera, Alex Severin and Wrath James White round a sacrificial altar to discuss their Medium Rare Books collaboration BROKEN.
stay tuned for more revealtions close to the release of the trade paperback UNITED STATES.
Hertzan Chimera lays his soul bare in the sordid name of promotion of his published works and his subversive writing life.
REALM GOTHICA - a feast for the eyes & mind.
SHADOWS OF THE MARQUIS - a Misery inspired S&M inquisition.
SUSPECT THOUGHTS - a Blade Runner inspired interrogation.
ETERNAL NIGHT - a very 'informative' interview, raison d'etre and all that.
NEVERMORE MAGAZINE - Queenie Tirone, horror editor exposes Hertzan Chimera's greatest fears of his past, present and future.
THE DREAM PEOPLE (Inquisitor: John Lawson) - think De Sade chrashlands his time machine in Orwell's 1984 - let's see how Hertzan Chimera likes it up him!
SCARY VOICES - Hertzan Chimera spouts his filth all over the place in this scandalous monologue.
VAMPYRE EROTICA - this wonderful Blood Fetish site hosts The BANNED Brutal Judgement interview.
HOUSE OF PAIN - The legendary Dominatrix, Wraith, takes on Chimera & Severin!
FRIGHT WEB - FrightWeb trap Chimera & Severin in their interview killing jar!
REALLY SCARY - Harry Shannon gathers Hertzan Chimera, Alex Severin and Wrath James White round a sacrificial altar to discuss their Medium Rare Books collaboration BROKEN.
stay tuned for more revealtions close to the release of the trade paperback UNITED STATES.
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