Chimericana Books new pricing policy

Chimericana Books has always aimed to be at the forefront of extreme/subversive literature. They have always produced quality American format 6" by 9" trade paperbacks at the best possible price to the reader. Now you can pick up these extreme and subversive titles for a more affordable US$13.99 (UK£7.71).

Chimericana Books new pricing policy has been designed with the consumer in mind, to promote extreme literature to a more mainstream audience of over a million readers desperate to get their hands on THE NEXT BIG THING.

As Mike Philbin (Chimericana Books owner) puts it, "That's the double beauty of Print On Demand - the publisher can choose the price point they're happy with, allowing for deeper penetration into the mainstream reading market and the benefit of direct purchase means that both reader and publisher by-pass the traditional distribution model where prices have to be set artificially higher to recoup setup costs."

This new $13.99 price point has been applied across the whole Chimericana Books range of novels, collections and collaborative works, each containing more than 60,000 words of out-of-this-world literary entertainment.

Here's a full and comprehensive list of the extreme titles available to buy right now:

CHIMERAWORLD #1 (antho)
Chimeraworld #1 is a dark place your mind will never escape. A collection of the most ferocious, the most relentless, the most wonderfully rendered nightmare landscapes ever witnessed in literary history. This is not horror. This is not sci-fi. This is not mystery. This is not thriller. CHIMERAWORLD exceeds all boundaries of taste and narrative. Stories from C.C. Parker, W. Bill Czolgosz, Greg Beatty, John Peters, L. Marie Wood, Latricia L. Lane, T.M. Gray, Ken Goldman, Queenie Tirone, Jaime L. Burvato, Alex Severin, William S. Brock, polycarp kusch, Joseph Miles, Kevin Anderson, J. M. Heluk, Isaac Fellows, Kevin L. Donihe, Tony Richards, S.J. Hinton, Steve Short, John Edward Lawson and Rickey Windell George

CHIMERAWORLD #2 (antho)
Still reeling from the nightmare excesses of CHIMERAWORLD #1? Relax a while and enjoy the ambient tones of sadness, depression, degradation and utter hopelessness of CHIMERAWORLD #2. Twenty three of the most mentally corrosive stories from twenty three of the most innovative authors ever assembled in one collection. Stories from Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, Brian W Keen, Kurt Newton, Dustin LaValley, David L Tamarin, Derek Gunn, Michele Acker, Anthony Cain, William D. Carl, Glen Alan Hamilton, Quentin S Crisp, J. M. Heluk, Charles Richard Laing, Ken Goldman, Nicholas Alan Tillemans, Suzanne Church, Eric Shapiro, Tony Richards, Karen James, John Meany, Andrew Zimmerman Jones, Richard Lee and Destiny West.

CHIMERAWORLD #3 (antho)
Misogyny, atheism and terrorism in one issue? It must be Chimeraworld #3 time. Twenty-three short stories of sexual annihilation, god murder and exploding children all mingled together in one really nasty annual debauch of the senses. Fiction was never meant to be this extreme, this subversive, this genre-breaking. Share the pain and pleasure of Ralph Greco, Jr., Dean R Winters, Michael De Kler, Jenny Ashford, Nicholas Alan Tillemans, C. C. Parker, Joshua Scribner, Sean Logan, Chet Gottfried, Paul Pinn, D.L. Snell, Anthony Armstrong, C.L. Russo, Will McIntosh, Tim McDaniel, Michael A. Kechula, Kevin James Miller, Richard Pitaniello, Richard D. Moore, Liam Davies, Tonya Price, Glen Alan Hamilton, David L Tamarin.

Chimeraworld #4 (antho)
The modern motorcar (and the industry that surrounds it) is nothing but a cancer on the face of the Earth. Mark Zirbel, Christina Kinnan, Paul Murray Collrin, Jenny Ashford, Liam Davies, Courtney Burback, Mark Robyn, M.P. Johnson, Tyler Runde, J. M. Heluk, Kelly Stevens, Ken C Goldman, Ray Wallace, Gerard Brennan, Brad C. Hodson, M. Jones, Suzanne Burns, Jeff Drake, Cameron Pierce, Sean Rickards, David Mitchell Turnbull, Kek-W and Alex Severin bring us twenty-three tales of the revolting lives and ugly deaths of these beasts of the road. Long may they remain dead.

Jane's Game (novel)
The technicians at the Fountains Institute for Molecular Research thought they knew what they were doing when they wrote Jane's program, they had written and rewritten her so many times why should this time be any different? JANE'S GAME by Mike Philbin is a brutal piece of psycho-sexual horror fiction - you have been warned.

Twilight's Last Gleaming (novel)
a new Hertzan Chimera novel TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING - The limp trickle of liquid on porcelain. The filthy tap squeaking as it is turned off. The static cling of tights being pulled on. The hot smells of the flesh. The juicy odours The lubricated thrashings and tortured sighs. The scampering of footsteps on the uncarpeted staircase. The slamming of the front door.

The Hoo-Hoo Are Coming (novel)
a new Hertzan Chimera novel THE HOO-HOO ARE COMING - The scourge began amid the dizzying pyrotechnics of a spectacular thunder storm and a frenzied knuckle assault at an, as yet, undisclosed, door. Stewing in the bath was the only answer to these terrible twinges of pain her monthly scourge brought her. Geraldine Kablensk brought her head from beneath the soapy surface; sat up in her bath. Was she hearing things?

THE BEST OF HIM+CHIM+HER (collab)
Chim+Her and Chim+Him were two separate titles originally published through Cyber Pulp Press of Houston. They showed how much fun one can have in collaboration with another writer of either sex. Where there were three collabs with each of the writers in the original books, here I’ve chosen the very best collaborations from each book. Collaborations with Destiny West, Queenie Tirone, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Charlee Jacob, Amy Grech, Christina Sng, Alex Severin, Simon Logan, Mark McLaughlin, Vincent Sakowski, Greg Wharton, John Edward Lawson, D.F. Lewis and M.F. Korn.

HORROR QUARTERLY (best of)
Body Horror; Fuck Horror; Blood Horror - these were the extreme + bizarro subjects of the first three issues of online zine HORROR QUARTERLY. In this paperback edition, there’ll be a best article, best interview, best ‘metal’, five of the best stories and the classic three-part article from Quentin S Crisp exploring Japanese Horror to end each issue.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HERTZAN CHIMERA (biog)
Hertzan Chimera died on the 14th of August 2004 after fourteen years typing like a madman. He will be remembered (one hopes) for his extreme short stories and subversive books that tried to break away from rational thought and tedious 3-act structure, works that tore down the barriers of taste and exploded the fixed genres writers find themselves having to cater to. Includes exclusive Hertzan Chimera interviews with Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccirilli, Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob and others.

All the above titles are available right now in American format 6" by 9" trade paperbacks for just $13.99 each.