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I also wanted to create a book where the reader would be locked into the mind of a man who becomes a serial killer – to witness at close quarters his descent, if you like.ĭM: Were there any particularly troublesome challenges that came along during the process of writing the novel?īR: Well, deciding that the book had to be exclusively from Michael Friday’s viewpoint plunged me into a strange kind of “oh no, I have to start all over again” depression, but I decided to use that emotion to flesh out the character. Other novels about serial killers always seemed to explore the violence, with the crimes becoming more gratuitous, outlandish and unbelievable, but always carefully skirting around the sex angle. I wanted to explore the mindscape of a serial killer and, more importantly, his sexual fantasies. The book was turning into every other novel about a serial killer that I’d ever read. A third of the way through I felt that I was going wrong somehow. The storyline followed the plucky adventures of our heroine, Elene Shepperd, Forensic Psychiatrist, as she attempted to solve some shocking local murders.

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That was one of the factors that propelled me to write the book as I did.ĭM: What made you decide to tell the story of Michael, the protagonist, and his freefalling descent into madness as a series of progressively darker journal entries?īW: When I first started to write the book it was in the third person.

I was appalled by her statement, but at the same time intrigued.

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I consider myself a big softie, someone who is extremely empathic towards other folks, so an individual who was free from feelings for others was a very interesting concept to me.Īnother catalyst came from a friend of mine who was a professional dominatrix and sexual therapist (coincidentally with a Master’s Degree in Human Sexuality) who once confessed to me that her greatest sexual fantasy was to sleep with a serial killer. When I first started reading about serial killers (Colin Wilson’s excellent The Order of the Assassins), I was fascinated by the motivations of these people. (Although, of course, I adored Holmes as well.) I even invented a back story for Moriarty to explain his dastardly actions. Even when I was a prepubescent nerd devouring Sherlock Holmes stories at a great rate, it was Moriarty who was the character who really captured my imagination. As she promotes her first novel, The Venus Complex, Barbie took time to speak with Drunk Monkeys’ Gabriel Ricard about her past work and what lies ahead.ĭrunk Monkeys: Tell us about The Venus Complex, and where the story came from.īarbie Wilde: I guess it came from my fascination with the criminal mind. Though perhaps best known as the female cenobite from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser II: Hellbound, she has had a long and fascinating career both in front of and behind the camera. Barbie Wilde’s career has taken her from mime to horror queen and now to novelist.

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