BARBIE WILDE

 

Click here for  INTERVIEWS WITH BARBIE

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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 latest short story, POLYP,

which is featured in the anothology THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BODY HORROR,

is now 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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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 an foreward by Clive Barker and 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,