Wild Thymes on the 22 (anthology)
- ️Wed Feb 19 2025
Wild Thymes on the 22 was an Iris Wildthyme short story anthology edited by Stewart Sheargold and published by Obverse Books in 2018.
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Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris has always been a bit of a name-dropper. She was there when it all began, when it peaked, when it started going pear-shaped. Iris was there: tinkering with the spaceship design on the Star Wars set, upsetting Warhol's films in the Factory, sexing it up with Chaucer, conjuring ghosts with Kate Bush, cross-dressing and undressing with Fanny and Stella, and arguing for her very existence with a nefarious biographer known as Magrs…
Pop star, fashion diva, writer, artiste, botherer, ratbag and liar. She's done it all. Or undone it all.
Now, in this exclusive tell-all collection, taken from her journals, we hear Iris in her own words and get the inside gossip on her wild times…
Individual stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
| # | Title | Author | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Heart Pendulums | Steve Cole | Panda, Spike Milligan |
| 2 | Rain and Regency | Nick Chester | Panda, Prince Regent George |
| 3 | Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive | Stewart Sheargold | Tom, Kate Bush |
| 4 | Drowned in Moonlight | Kenneth James McGowan | Carrie Fisher |
| 5 | The Most Faithful Panda in the World | Richard Wright | Panda, Greyfriars Bobby |
| 6 | Hillbilly Heavens | Brad Wolfe | Tom, Dolly Parton |
| 7 | The Haberdasher's Tale | Brendan Jones | Tom, Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8 | The Exploding Somewhat Inevitable | Philip Marsh | Panda, Andy Warhol |
| 9 | The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde | Matthew Bright | Stella Boulton, Fanny Graham |
| 10 | Starstation to Starstation | Jon Wesley Huff | David Bowie |
| 11 | The Magrs Conundrum! | Vivienne Fox | Panda, Paul Magrs |
| 12 | Untitled No. 22 | Cody Schell | Mark Rothko, Liza, Tomato, Brian, Kate, Fred, Q |
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The character of Janice, who appears in between Paul Magrs and Napoléon Bonaparte on the front cover, was later revealed to be the main character of artist Paul Hanley's comic series Warp Hustler in 2023.
- Wild Thymes on the 22 collects short stories concerning Iris Wildthyme and famous individuals she has met. Star Tales, a similar anthology centred on the Thirteenth Doctor and her own penchant for name-dropping famous acquaintances was published a year later in 2019.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
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External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Wild Thymes on the 22 page at Obverse Books