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BREAKING NEWS

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Snakebite Horror has made The Venus Complex their Book of the Month:
"Barbie Wilde has an excellent grasp of the male POV as she walks us through the creation
of a killer. She takes the reader on a journey into the mind of a twisted individual, as he comes
to terms with who and what he really is. This tightly-written page-turner is not for the faint of
heart. It contains some (amazingly written) graphic sex and death scenes.  Step into the shoes
of a serial killer and pick up your copy of The Venus Complex..."
- Review by Mandy DeGeit
Click on the photo to read the full review:

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Fellow Cenobites Simon Bamford, Nicholas Burman-Vince
and I will be appearing at the Antwerp Comic Con on the 28th of April.
Click on the photo to go to the website:

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My latest short story, "A is for Alpdruck", is featured in the
new anthology, The Demonologia Biblica, edited by Dean M. Drinkel,
out now on Western Legends Press. Cover Art: James Powell

... twenty-six writers from around the globe, offer new stories to
scare, frighten and chill you to the bone."

Click on the photo to go to Amazon.com to buy the paperback:

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Or click on the photo below to purchase your Kindle copy from Amazon.com:

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Another interview with Barbie, this time by Mark Buckle
at the new Hellraiser website, Labyrinth:
"...sex and death will always be the most fascinating topics for human beings,
no matter how much they would prefer to ignore them." - BW
Click on the photo to go to Labyrinth to read the full interview:



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Interview with Barbie at This Is Horror by Michael Wilson about The Venus Complex
and writing horror, as well as her favorite writers, filmmakers, etc., in the horror world.
Click on the photo to go to This is Horror to read the full interview:

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Cool review of The Venus Complex by New York Times
bestselling author/editor/filmmaker John Skipp at Fangoria Online: 
"But I think what I like most about this news story is that she kicked my ass
so hard with her first novel. Turns out Barbie Wilde is even scarier than we thought.
And that is a terrible, beautiful thing." 
Click on the photo to read the full review at Fangoria Online:

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Great interview & feature on Barbie's writing & The Venus Complex in Fangoria #321.
Click on the photo to go to the BW website page to read the complete article or
click on the Fangoria Interview button on the left:

Or click here:

http://www.barbiewilde.com/fangoria-interview.html

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Interview about Hellraiser, Cenobites and The Venus Complex
with by the Hellraiser Podcast guys.
Click on the photo to go to their website to have a listen:

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Barbie was interviewed on the Jimmy Star Show on the 13th of February.
Check out the podcast by clicking on the photo to go to Jimmy's website:

Or by clicking this link:

http://jimmystarshow.com/podcast/

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Great teaser for the next issue of Fangoria #321:

MINIFEATURE: BARBIE WILDE 
"Once an onscreen Cenobite, she now elicits fear with the written word."

Click here to go to the Fangoria website to read the full preview of issue #321:

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And more from Fangoria here:

"Wilde, of course, starred as the Female Cenobite in HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II
and as a punk thug in the late Michael Winner’s cult classic DEATH WISH 3.
She’s well known in the UK as a media personality, however, and in recent years
as one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around.
Her first full length novel THE VENUS COMPLEX is featured, along with a new
interview with Wilde, in the upcoming FANGORIA #321…

Click on the photo to read about a London reading of The Venus Complex,
along with a screening of the legendary uber gory frightfest, Xtro:

 

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The latest issue of the UK's Number 1 Horror Entertainment Magazine,
Scream (#16), is out now. It features a four page feature on Barbie, with an interview
with Michael Wilson, as well as a cool review of The Venus Complex:
"... addictive, gory and will evoke both repulsion and empathy."

Click on the photo to go to Scream's website to order a copy:

 

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Sci-Fi Bulletin's Paul Simpson reviews The Venus Complex:

"Barbie Wilde has a knack for getting inside her character’s head
and taking us with her on his journey of self-delusion – in fact it’s almost the exact
opposite of a road to self-discovery."
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"Verdict: A view into the abyss made all the more chilling by the realisation
that it could all too easily be exactly how such a person considers the world."

Click on the photo to go to the Sci-Fi Bulletin Website to read the full review:

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Barbie is the Guest Writer on award-winner author Paul Kane's website, ShadowWriter.

Click on the photo to go the website to read an excerpt from The Venus Complex:

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Great review of The Venus Complex by Blood E. Bastard at the Horror News Network:
"The Venus Complex is a deftly plotted and calculated work of terror. Like the painted masterworks
Michael Friday draws from to inspire his blood-fest, each verbal brushstroke falls on the page at the
precise spot Barbie Wilde wants it."

Click on the photo to go to the full review:


 

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Interview with Michael DeFellipo of The Horror Society.

Click on the photo to go to the interview:

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The Venus Complex is on Gabino Iglesias of HorrorTalk's Top Books of 2012 list at Number 3:
"A novel by a female Cenobite that gives the world a smart, artistic, cynical, cultured serial killer who
could give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money. On top of that, this is a poignant, funny, sexually-charged,
hardcore critique of popular culture and a deconstruction of relationships, academia, and art."

Click on the photo of BW to go to HorrorTalk website:

or click here:

http://www.horrortalk.com/features/3071-gabinos-top-books-of-2012.html

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Interview with Gabriel Ricard at Drunk Monkeys.

Click on the photo to go to the interview:

 

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Review of The Venus Complex by Gabriel Ricard at Drunk Monkeys:

"The Venus Complex is full of brilliant, flawless touches throughout Michael’s transition
from extremely disturbed, to the kind of serial killer that would eat a guy like Dexter Morgan alive."

"The Venus Complex is the work of someone who loves and understands the inner
workings of truly effective horror, can write with exceptional talent, and combines both of
these things into one of the best depictions of steadily mounting evil this side of Poe.
Or Clive Barker, for that matter. "

Click on the photo to read the full review:

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Review of The Venus Complex by Gabino Iglesias for Horror Talk:

"While Wilde's smart-yet-unhinged character is definitely one of the main elements making
The Venus Complex a must-read, it's really the author's writing chops that help this tome stand out.
Although this is purely a horror novel, there are passages that make you laugh, a few that wouldn't be
out of place in a critical essay about contemporary television, and some so deliciously vicious, evil,
and coldhearted that they place Michael Friday in the spot I mentioned above:
right next to Hannibal Lecter."

"The Venus Complex is a clever, grisly, art-infused, sexually-charged narrative
that will keep you turning pages."

Click on the photo to read the full review:

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The Venus Complex was chosen as one of The Ginger Nuts of Horror "Books of the Year":

"This brilliant look into the mind of a serial killer is full of poetic anger, and beautiful vitriolic
ranting that it makes you wonder from which pit of hell the lovely Barbie came from.  
In a genre saturated with bland serial killers, and even blander plots, this book shines out like a beacon." 

Click on the photo to go to the website to read the rest of the review and see the other books on the list:



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Click on the photo to go to Barbie's podcast with the 80s Picture House,
where she chatted to Dave and Thom about everything 80s, including her days in
Shock, teaching Sooty how to be a robot, dancing with Morecambe and Wise, playing the
Female Cenobite in Hellraiser II and her new dark crime novel, The Venus Complex:

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Review by Jon Towlson of The Venus Complex in Starburst Magazine:

"Best known for her role as the Female Cenobite in Hellraiser 2, Barbie Wilde is also an
author who has contributed short stories to anthologies as varied as Hellbound Hearts,
Phobophobia, Mutation Nation and the Mammoth Book of Body Horror. As might be expected,
her writing tends towards the transgressive, and in its mix of psychological horror, art
and eroticism, her debut novel, The Venus Complex is no exception."
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"Although The Venus Complex had been compared to American Psycho,
mainly because its first-person narration draws you inside the mind of the serial killer protagonist,
Barbie Wilde’s novel is distinctly Hitchcockian in its portrayal of murderous obsession."

Click on the photo for the full review at the Starburst Magazine website:


 

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Very cool review of The Venus Complex in the new Fear Magazine, November 2012:

"… the Professor appears, even in his writings, to be a normal man, perfectly capable
of living alongside any one of us without raising suspicion. And that is Wilde's genius in charting
the rise of a sociopath of cleverness and cunning enough to match that even of Dr Hannibal Lecter
(God knows where and how she did her research). She presents us with a normal human being
capable of doing the most deviant atrocities, being able to justify them so that he can live with
himself. And yet, as a reader, I found myself drawn to this character with an increasing degree of
fascination. If you are a fan of both the crime and horror genres and want something special
to read this Christmas, go for The Venus Complex." 

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To read the full review, please order a copy of the excellent Fear Magazine,
edited by John Gilbert, from this website:
http://fearmagazine.businesscatalyst.com/subscriptions.html
(The magazine also contains features on Nicholas (Chatterer) Burman-Vince & Stephen (Ghostwatch) Volk.)
 

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More reviews for The Venus Complex on Amazon.co.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1936964449/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

and Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/product-reviews/1936964449/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

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Here is the first post-publication review of The Venus Complex.
For the full review from The Ginger Nuts of Horror, go to:
http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com/2012/11/review-venus-complex-by-barbie-wilde.html

Excerpts from the review:
"This is one hell of a novel.
Barbie Wilde has written one of the most tense and powerful stories I have read in a long long time.
This is not a book for the faint of heart, there are passages in here that will truly shock you…" 

"I don't know from which dark recess of Barbie's mind she dragged this story from,
but she is really beginning to scare me.  It is as though some dark primal rage takes control of her mind
when she writes stories like this…"

"...fear not, this book isn't just about shocking the reader, which it does to the maximum.  
This book is also extremely well written. You will become captivated by the sheer talent of Barbie's writing.  
She manages to turn a vile evil character into someone that you will perversely start rooting for..."

"From reading her short stories I knew Barbie Wilde had a talent for writing.  
With The Venus Complex, Barbie's talent has been given a much larger canvas to play with.  
And Barbie has filled every square inch of the canvas with a stunningly brilliant work of fiction."

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(If you enjoyed reading Ginger Nuts of Horror's review of The Venus Complex and wish to buy the book,
then please purchase it through the link to Amazon below the review on the website. 
The small remuneration Jim receives goes a long way in keeping his site active.)

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Barbie has started a writer's blog, as part of 'The Next Big Thing',
an ongoing chain of book and author recommendations.
Check it out here:
http://www.barbiewilde.com/barbies-blog.html

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Barbie's story for the Cilicium Pandoric is now up on the Followers of the Pandorics website.
The Cilicium Pandoric is a musical puzzle box dedicated to Sister Cilice,
  the female cenobite character from Barbie's story in the Hellbound Hearts Anthology.
The Cilicium Pandoric was co-designed with the talented Eric Gross. Check it out at:
http://followers-of-the-pandorics.com/history/the-cilicium-pandoric/

 

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Barbie now has a Facebook page dedicated to her new dark crime novel, The Venus Complex.
Check and *like* here for all the lastest news and reviews:
http://www.facebook.com/TheVenusComplex

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The latest interview with Barbie is a podcast at:
http://www.clivebarkercast.com/tag/barbie-wilde/

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Barbie's dark crime novel, The Venus Complex, is available for purchase on Amazon.com
as a paperback and as a Kindle version. It's published by Comet Press.
Click here for more info: http://www.barbiewilde.com/VenusComplex.html

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Click on the image below to go to Amazon to order:

(cover artwork by Daniele Serra)

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For readers on the other side of "the pond",
please go to Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351525797&sr=8-1

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or Amazon Germany:
http://www.amazon.de/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353497473&sr=8-2

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or Amazon France:
http://www.amazon.fr/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353497473&sr=8-2

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or Amazon Italy:
http://www.amazon.it/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353327427&sr=8-2-spell

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or Amazon Spain:
http://www.amazon.es/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353327485&sr=8-2

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And finally for readers in Japan:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/The-Venus-Complex-Barbie-Wilde/dp/1936964449/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353327322&sr=8-2
 

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Click here for  MORE INTERVIEWS WITH BARBIE

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Barbie appeared at a Hellraiser Reunion at the 10th WEEKEND OF HORRORS Convention
02. - 04. November 2012 at the Saalbau in Bottrop, Germany.

Click the photo for the link to the site:


 

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Barbie appeared at the mega Hellraiser Reunion at Monster-Mania Con
on the weekend of August 17, 2012.
Click the photo for the link to their site:

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MORE BREAKING NEWS

. . . about Barbie's short stories:

POLYP (The Mammoth Book of Body Horror)

AMERICAN MUTANT: HANDS OF DOMINION (Mutation Nation) 

U FOR URANOPHOBIA (Phobophobia)

SISTER CILICE (Hellbound Hearts)

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Review of POLYP in SFX Magazine:

"The stories offer icky pleasure for those fascinated with a subgenre concerned with the body turning against itself. Some are funny and disgusting (Richard Matheson’s nuclear fallout nightmare ‘”Tis The Season To Be Jelly!”, Barbie Wilde’s bowel-with-a-brain-of-its-own yuk-fest “Polyp”)…"

For the full review, click here:

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/03/09/the-mammoth-book-of-body-horror-review/

 

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Fab review of POLYP by the Ginger Nuts of Horror:

“I normally have two ways in which I attack an anthology: the first is to go to my favourite author and the second is to start at the beginning. I usually do this when there are no authors that I am familiar with. TMBODH threw a spanner into the working of this process. I just didn't know where to start, other than not starting with Stephen King’s story Survivor Type. Hand on heart I have never been a fan of King.

So the honour fell to Barbie Wilde. I had just read one of her stories in another anthology [Phobophobia] and I had just finished compiling an interview with her.  Barbie's story, Polyp, more than lived up to the task.  This a wonderfully disgusting story that manages to both shock the reader and make them giggle.  Barbie has created a brilliant twist on the creature feature genre.  I really enjoyed how the tale went from being a very personal story into an apocalyptic cliff hanger.  After reading this story, which in all reality was chosen at random, I knew this book was going to be great read.”

For the full review, click here:

http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com/2012/03/mammoth-book-of-body-horror-ed-by-paul.html

 

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Great mention for POLYP in Johnny Main's review of The Mammoth Book of Body Horror:

"It's surprising that a history of body horror in literature hasn't been done before now - so thanks to Marie O' Regan and Paul Kane for this treasure trove of stories - ranging from some classics in the genre, The Tell-Tale Heart, Survivor Type and The Body Politic to some stories that will almost certainly become classics of their time - the absurdist, very entertaining shocker Polyp to the brilliantly executed Sticky Eye - one of my favourite new stories in this anthology."

For the full review, click here:

http://johnnymains.blogspot.com/2012/03/mammoth-book-of-body-horror.html?zx=6b01ea12713eeae9

 

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Review of The Mammoth Book of Body Horror in Starburst Magazine:

http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviewslatest-literary-releases/2008-book-review-the-mammoth-book-of-body-horror

 

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Preview of The Mammoth Book of Body Horror with an interview with Paul Kane:

 http://scifibulletin.com/books/horror/preview-the-mammoth-book-of-body-horror/

 

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Review for U FOR URANOPHOBIA by the Ginger Nuts of Horror:

"Wow, wow, wow. That pretty much sums up my feelings about this story. Barbie has created a story that reads like a power of nature. Gaia's story is both powerful and deeply shocking. This tale of latent revenge and pent up anger was a joy to read."

For reviews of all the stories in Phobophobia, click here:

http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com/2012/01/phobophobia-edited-by-dean-m-drinkel.html

 

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Barbie's short story, POLYP,
which is featured in the anothology THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BODY HORROR,
is available at Amazon.co.uk (paperback and Kindle):  

http://tinyurl.com/mammothbookofbodyhorror

 

The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
Twenty-Five Stories of Transformation, Mutation and Contagion
Edited by Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan
 
Editors of the bestselling and British Fantasy Award-nominated Hellbound Hearts
 
A very special and unique anthology celebrating the sub-genre of ‘Body Horror’, tracing its origins right up to the
most modern exponents of the form. Featuring a veritable ‘who’s who’ of horror literature, and including the stories
those classic Body Horror movies – The Thing, The Fly and Re-Animator – were based on,
this promises to be a groundbreaking and landmark release in the history of the genre.

Full Table of Contents below:
TRANSFORMATION by Mary Shelley; THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe; HERBERT WEST:
RE-ANIMATOR by H.P. Lovecraft; WHO GOES THERE?  John W. Campbell; THE FLY by George Langelaan;
TIS THE SEASON TO BE JELLY by Richard Matheson; SURVIVOR TYPE by Stephen King; THE BODY POLITIC by Clive Barker; THE CHANEY LEGACY by Robert Bloch; THE OTHER SIDE by Ramsey Campbell; FRUITING BODIES by Brian Lumley; FREAKTENT by Nancy A. Collins; REGION OF THE FLESH by Richard Christian Matheson; WALKING WOUNDED by Michael Marshall Smith; CHANGES by Neil Gaiman; OTHERS by James Herbert; THE LOOK by Christopher Fowler; RESIDUE by Alice Henderson; DOG DAYS by Graham Masterton; BLACK BOX by Gemma Files; THE SOARING DEAD by Simon Clark; POLYP by Barbie Wilde; ALMOST FOREVER by David Moody; BUTTERFLY by Axelle Carolyn; STICKY EYE by Conrad Williams.
 
Introduction by Stuart Gordon (Director of Re-Animator and From Beyond)
 
Published 1 March 2012, £7.99

 

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FANGORIA #310
A Tale of Two Cenobites by Aaron Williams
Interviews with Barbie Wilde and Simon (Butterball Cenobite) Bamford
Click on the photo to order a back issue of Fangoria to read the interviews:

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Barbie's short story, AMERICAN MUTANT: HANDS OF DOMINION,
is available in the anthology MUTATION NATION (as Kindle or paperback).  Order at:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mutation+nation&x=0&y=0

 

 

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Barbie's short story, U FOR URANOPHOBIA,
is featured in the horror anthology PHOBOPHOBIA (as Kindle or paperback)

Here's the link to Amazon.com for the paperback:

http://www.amazon.com/Phobophobia-Dean-M-Drinkel/dp/0983624526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332412436&sr=8-1

And here's the link to buy a Kindle version:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phobophobia-ebook/dp/B006QVWQQ8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332412088&sr=8-2

 

 

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Barbie Wilde's short story, SISTER CILICE, is featured in the well-received horror anthology,
HELLBOUND HEARTS.  (Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster)
The stories are inspired by Clive Barker's THE HELLBOUND HEART & its mythology.
Other authors include Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Kelley Armstrong, Mike Mignola,
Christopher Golden, Pete Atkins, Sarah Pinborough, Nicko "Chatterer" Vince and many others. 

With a foreward by Clive Barker and an afterword by Doug "Pinhead" Bradley.

Click here:  HELLBOUND HEARTS - for more info, reviews and a link to Amazon.com

Hellbound Hearts is now available as a Kindle download
at  www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk

 

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Hellbound Hearts was shortlisted as Best Anthology 2010 by the British Fantasy Society

www.britishfantasysociety.org

 

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ONE OF THE REVIEWS OF SISTER CILICE FROM HELLBOUND HEARTS:

From www.fright.com/edge/2009YearInFiction.htm:

"Finally there’s Barbie Wilde, who played one of the Cenobites of the original HELLRAISER
and contributes “Sister Cilice,” a potent piece of nunspoloitation. It contains plenty of grotesquerie,
and, unlike the majority of the book’s other tales, doesn’t wait until the end to dish it out!"