After a childhood accident in which she loses her left eye, Klara Alexander visits her new ocularist, Dr Markham, to have a replacement ocular prosthesis fitted. Unfortunately, the good doctor is a sexual pervert and he takes advantage of her while she is under sedation. Too shocked to report the attack, Klara goes home and tries to recover. There she notices a scary phenomena occurring in her new prostheses: a tiny glittering golden entity appears in what previously was the dark void of her left eye socket. The frantic little figure is waving to her…sending her signs and messages… advising her how to take her revenge. And boy, does she. A Short Sharp Shocks! book.
Author
Barbie Wilde is a Canadian-born British actress and writer. She is best known for portraying the Female Cenobite in 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'.
1 best selling horror magazine Fangoria has called Wilde "one of the finest purveyor of erotically charged horror around".
Barbie Wilde's first dark crime novel, 'The Venus Complex', is out now and is published by Comet Press. The cover art for 'The Venus Complex' is by award-winning artist Daniele Serra. A collection of Wilde's short horror stories, entitled Voices of the Damned, will be published by SST on Halloween 2015. Nine stories have been previously published in anthos and Gorezone, two are new to the collection. Each story has been illustrated by some of the top artists of the genre and Clive Barker himself has contributed three artworks to the collection. Wilde's well-received short horror stories include: Sister Cilice for the Hellbound Hearts anthology (Pocket Books 2009) U for Uranophobia [AKA Gaia] (Phobophobia, Dark Continents 2011) American Mutant: Hands of Dominion (Mutation Nation: Tales of Genetic Mishaps, Monsters, and Madness, Rainstorm Press 2011) Polyp (The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, Constable & Robinson 2012, reprinted in The Unspoken 2013) A is for Alpdruck (The Demonologia Biblica, (Western Legends Press 2013) Z is for Zulu Zombies (Bestarium Vocabulum, Western Legends Press 2013, reprinted in Fangoria's Gorezone 2014) Botophobia (Phobophobias, Western Legends 2014) W is for Writer's Block (Grimorium Verum, Western Legends December 2014) Crime Stories: Mr Duggins' Stigmata (Noir Nation No. 5 2014) Beauty and the Skell: A Noir Fable (Noir Nation) Reviews for The Venus Complex: "Barbie Wilde – best known to the horror community as The Female Cenobite from Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 – has crafted a serial killer story every bit as warped as Level 26, as exacting as Harris’s “Hannibal” series and more sexually adventurous than Fifty f***ing Shades of Gray could ever hope to be." -Brutal As Hell "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."
- New York Times bestselling author John Skipp, Fangoria Online "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."
- Gabino Iglesias, HorrorTalk's Top Books of the Year "The book has been garnering great reviews, firmly confirming the literary course that is now defining Wilde's life. Damaged people, ultraviolence, murder and explicit sex - what's not to love about her work?"
- Chris Alexander, Editor-in-Chief, Fangoria Magazine, Issue #321 "Read the damn book. Watch every moview the lady's been in, read every antho in which this woman's appeared. Fall in love with tainted love and fight the frightfuls, The Venus Complex is, in every sense of the word, the real thing."
- Garrett Cook, The Imperial Youth Review
