June 1, 2005 -- 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, the pure power-chords of deep, deep despondency.
Those were the rather vague (and purposefully so) guidelines to this title. The idea was not to set a theme but to set a tone, a palette, an atmosphere. From nearly 100 submissions the
final 23 stories were chosen. They are some of the most seriously despondent stories ever assembled together into one gloomy collection.
Get your box of razor blades ready 'cos here's the finalised TOC:
Damp - Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis
The Dance - Brian W Keen
The Stagnant Ponds - Kurt Newton
A Taste For Deformity - Dustin LaValley
The Abortion People - David L Tamarin
It's Your Turn - Derek Gunn
Twisted Justice - Michele Acker
This Colossal Wreck - Anthony Cain
C.U.N.T. - William D. Carl
The Fort - Glen Alan Hamilton
Asking For It - Quentin S Crisp
Embalming 101 - J. M. Heluk
At The Orphanage - Charles Richard Laing
Dream Lover - Ken Goldman
Blind Feeling - Nicholas Alan Tillemans
Grey Love - Suzanne Church
Fizz - Eric Shapiro
Little Boy Blue - Tony Richards.
Birdcage - Karen James
Sin And Sorrow - John Meany
Abraham Lincoln's Children - Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The Final Wait - Richard Lee
The Forgotten - Destiny West
CHIMERAWORLD #2 will be available June 1 in paperback from Cyber Pulp Books.
Mike Philbin, editor
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