Iris Wildthyme
Book 1: Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus
What is there left to say about Iris Wildthyme — transtemporal
adventuress extraordinaire, metafictional explorer of texts and
subtexts, double-decker-dwelling interstellar bag-lady, amnesia-
prone political and sexual revolutionary, writer of wrongs, wronger
of rights (especially copyrights), all-round champion of freedom,
occasional nightclub singer and frequent bar-room floozy?
Well, there’s always something.
A collection of brand new stories, taking the transtemporal
adventuress and her trusty companion Panda all the way from
snowy Darlington to the literal end of the universe (and beyond!),
visiting friends old and new on the way. With an introduction by
Iris’ alter-ego, Katy Manning, original artwork by legendary Doctor
Who artist June Hudson and new stories from Paul Magrs, Philip
Purser-Hallard and Steve Cole amongst many others.
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* Introduction by Katy Manning
* A Gamble with Wildthyme by Steve Lyons
* Sovereign by Mags L Halliday
* The Unhappy Medium by Mark Wright and Cavan Scott
* Living Legend by Stuart Douglas
* Battleship Anathema by Phil Purser-Hallard
* The Dreadful Flap by Paul Magrs
* Not A Drop by Steven Wickham
* Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta by Cody Schell
* Why? Because We Like You by Jonathan Dennis
* The Scarlet Shadow by Stewart Sheargold
* Only Living Girls by Steve Cole
Reviews
“The Celestial Omnibus shows Iris at her typical best, with brilliant episodes of a charming, maddening and entirely contradictory life.” – Shiny Shelf
“Every single story is of exceptionally high quality” – Eric C. Johnson, Gallifrey Base
Book 2: The Panda Book of Horror (Hardback)
Witness a slender neck being circled by rough hands…
sharp metal violently stabbing and twisting… the
emerging viscous dark red liquid being guzzled greedily,
lingering on lips and teeth, followed by the laughter of
madness. And that’s just Iris and Panda at a wine
tasting! “Pass me the bottle, woman! We might as well KILL it…”
THE PANDA BOOK OF HORROR will make your fur stand on end.
Your blood AND your G&T will run ice cold.
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* Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost by Ian Potter
* Framed by Mark Michalowski
* Just the Ticket by Phil Craggs
* The Party in Room Four by Simon Guerrier
* Party Kill Accelerator! by Blair Bidmead
* Apocalypse Slough by Mark Morris
* The Delightful Bag by Paul Magrs
* Iris Wildthyme’s Rainy Day Adventure by Nicholas Nada
* The Colour Scheme by Eddie Robson
* Shadow of the Times Before by Matt Kimpton
* The Fag Hag from Hell by Dale Smith
* The Niceness by Jac Rayner and Orna Petit
* Channel 666 by Mark Clapham
Reviews
“This whole, phantasmic, phantastic collection.” – Doctor Who Reviews
“Very enjoyable selection of short stories” – Goodreads
“None of the stories are less than splendid” – Peculiar Times
“Another sublime collection from Obverse Books: long may the high quality continue.” – Nick Mellish
Book 3: Miss Wildthyme & Friends Investigate (Hardback)
When Edward Malone discovers a peculiar yellow bottle
on the banks of an ancient South American river, it
takes the combined efforts of Professor Challenger,
the Manleigh Halt Irregulars and Señor 105 to keep
the contents safely under wraps. And that’s before
Miss Iris Wildthyme sticks her nose in…
Time for Miss Wildthyme and friends to investigate!
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*The Found World by Jim Smith
Featuring: Professor George Challenger (Explorer)
* Elementary, My Dear Sheila by Cody Schell
Featuring: Señor 105 (Masked Wrestler)
* The Irredeemable Love by Nick Wallace
Featuring: The Manleigh Halt Irregulars (Detectives)
* The Shape of Things by Stuart Douglas
Featuring: Miss Iris Wildthyme and Panda (Forces of Nature)
Reviews
“Superb.” – Nick Mellish
“this new approach is a successful experiment and one that could only benefit from being repeated” – History of the Doctor
“playful and rich in ideas” – Finn Clark’s Reviews
“A great collection which manages throughout to crack jokes without ever quite descending to obvious ‘comic writing’” – Crappy 70s paperbacks
Book 4: Iris: Abroad (Hardback)
From the Nile in the thirties to Texas in the seventies, from
spirit visions at the Little Big Horn (Casino, Bar and Grill) to
a potentially painful colonic in space, Iris and Panda are fresh
back from their holidays, knackered, skint and burned the colour
of a Bloody Mary. Thank God they can sit back now, tip the
sand out of their Crocs, sort through their photos and decide
which versions of their holiday stories they like best…
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* Annabel Regina by George Mann
* Chicken Fried Banana Republic by Jonathan Dennis
* The Midnight Washerwomen by Scott Handcock
* The Little Bighorn Casino by Kelly Hale
* How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win by Lawrence Conquest
* Panda on Ice by Richard Salter
* Couch Potatoes by Scott Liddell
* Riviera Shakedown by Simon Bucher-Jones
* Iris Wildthyme and the Colonic in Space by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
* First Meetings by Stuart Douglas
* The Best Holiday Ever by Ian Gregory
* The Story Eater by Richard Wright
* Hospitality by Paul Magrs
Reviews
“Iris: Abroad…is very, very good indeed” – Nick Mellish
“Extremely enjoyable selection of short stories” -Amazon
“a generally very successful volume” – Doctor Who Reviews
Book 5: Wildthyme in Purple (Hardback)
pur·ple (pûrpl) n.
1. Any of a group of colours with a hue
between that of violet and red.
2. Cloth of a colour between violet and red,
formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.
3. Imperial power; high rank: e.g
born to the purple.
4. In the Roman Catholic Church,
the rank or office of a cardinal or a bishop
And now 5. Those literary worlds visited
by Iris Wildthyme where the prose is as sensual, convoluted
and self-aggrandising as Iris herself…
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CONTENTS
The Big Crunch – Jim Mortimore
Frank Reade Jr’s Electric Time Canoe – Steve Mollmann
Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries – David McIntee
Iris in Dead Man’s Gulch – Paul Ebbs
Her and Allan – Simon Bucher-Jones
Running With Caesars – Geoffrey Hammell
Amser Gwyllt – Steffan Alun
The Bronze Door – Dale Smith
Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe! – Richard Salter
The Web of Terror – Iain McLaughlin
The Many Lives of Zorro – Richard Wright
Fantomville – Nick Campbell
The Devil Wears Panda – Cody Quijano-Schell
OQ 2.2: Lady Stardust
Imagine if Iris Wildthyme somehow found herself involved in a series of adventures prompted by David Bowie song titles. ‘Cracked Actor’, ‘Lady Grinning Soul’, ‘The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family’…the stories really just write themselves!
Implausible, I know, but Iris is a law to herself and she, like everybody else, does like a bit of Bowie…six Iris stories linked by one magnificent pop star.
This volume of the Obverse Quarterly will be printed and dispatched in August 2012.
The Occasional Diary of a Transtemporal Adventuress
With one story from each of the first four Obverse Books’ Iris Wildthyme collections, this is the perfect low price sampler for any reader who thinks they may fancy catching up on the adventures of the transtemporal adventuress!
Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta – Cody Schell (from ‘Iris Wildthyme and The Celestial Omnibus’)
The Delightful Bag – Paul Magrs (from ‘The Panda Book of Horror’)
The Shape of Things – Stuart Douglas (from ‘Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate’)
Annabel Regina – George Mann (from ‘iris: Abroad’)
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