Bøger af Alessandro Manzetti

Dal tre volte vincitore del Bram Stoker Award, una novella dark eretica con ambientazione storica (XV Secolo).Agosto 1429, la guerra dei Cent'anni tra Francia e Inghilterra infuria. L'esercito francese, col quarto corpo d'armata guidato da Giovanna d'Arco e Gilles de Rais, ha appena affrontato l'esercito anglo-borgognone presso Montépilloy, con un nulla di fatto. Prima di rientrare a Crépy, con le truppe nemiche in ritirata verso Parigi, si accende uno scontro nei boschi a est della barricata inglese. Una battaglia segreta che nessuno ha mai raccontato, durante la quale, con la notte in agguato, si rivelerà la reale natura dei poteri soprannaturali della Pulzella d'Orleans, della sua nemesi e l'innominabile segreto dell'Ampolla Blasfema, custodito nell'apocrifo Vangelo di Eva. Estasi d'Inferno e Paradiso.

Dall'autore vincitore del Bram Stoker Awards(R) Il Prequel del romanzo 'Naraka'.Justine e Juliette, rimaste orfane, vengono affidate alle "cure" del collegio Sainte Marie di Madame Desroches, nera matrona transgender di Parigi Sud 5. Le due sorelle diverranno prede e predatrici di un mondo brutale e senza speranza, dove l'unica meta è rappresentata da Shanti, la Città Santa, l'ultima diga della deriva universale. Due destini che si rivelano in una Parigi apocalittica, distopica, con i suoi quartieri bordello e i ristoranti di carne umana, e neldeserto, tra i cantieri e i serragli sub-umani della repubblica Mesoamericana. Una entità, sopravvissuta al tempo, tiene le fila di tutto e regna sul paradiso artificiale di Shanti. Ma la malavita della Nuova Francia, guidatada Big Blue, e la potente multinazionale New Moon Corporation, vogliono metterele mani sulla Città Santa. Entrano in gioco killer professionisti e giochi di potere, torna in azione la sensuale e letale Kiki Léger, la protagonista di Naraka. Prefazione di Alan D. Altieri

Il nuovo romanzo dal vincitore del Bram Stoker Award.Grande Canada, Moosonee. Sono trascorsi 16 anni dallo schianto di Uxor 77 e da allora la città è assediata dalla Milizia governativa, impegnata a sterminare i figli della Peste Bianca, sopravvissuti contaminati, mostri di nuova generazione. Nessuno deve uscire dai recinti di quarantena. L'ordine è chiaro, ma c'è chi si ribella. A bordo della Homeless Doll, un gruppo di disperati tenta la fuga verso il Trash Vortex 147, un'isola di plastica, un enorme accumulo di spazzatura galleggiante che non figura nemmeno sulle mappe. Ma sarà davvero un posto sicuro o si rivelerà l'ennesimo girone di un inferno che non ammette via d'uscita? Un viaggio di speranza e perdizione in cui passato e futuro s'incontrano in una spirale di violenza, cannibalismo, perversione, chiudendo il cerchio di un Samsara apocalittico. Ormai è tempo di azzerare il vecchio mondo e prepararsi al nuovo che avanza, col pelo lucido e la lunga coda; un mondo da ripensare, comunque vada a finire...Illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core, illustrazioni interne e di quarta di Stefano Cardoselli

A S/F Horror novel by Bram Stoker Award Winning author Alessandro Manzetti.Welcome to New Belmarsh Penitentiary, a space farm of human meat, where Slicers dispatch fleeing captives and organs are mechanically excised from the flesh and kept alive. Torture and death in a thousand variations await the dying and the damned. After the impact of radioactive, disease-bringing meteorite Uxor77 (presenting a new Year 0), a slow but unrelenting apocalypse is triggered. Earth is poisoned, agriculture compromised. In an already over-exploited environment, this leads to a global food crisis. Only the rich can afford what little vegetables and meat remain clean. Cannibalism is just around the corner.In the year 41 post-Uxor, countries like New France are heavily militarized and entire districts out of control, such as South Paris 5, governed by the criminal boss Big Blue, an "artist" who collects sadistic human installations. The wealthy dine at illegal cannibalistic restaurants like Le Sphinx Tatoué, where they can have sadistic sex and unorthodox meals with "disposable" prostitutes, while mutated rats compete with human wretches on the streets for scraps of food. New Moon Corporation is making a profit out of this mess, experimenting with new drugs and breeding humans to produce meat for the rich. To this end, NARAKA, aka New Belmarsh Penitentiary, is built on the Moon, a way to control the spreading criminality by removing from the planet the worst scum of Earth. This includes Kiki Léger, former South Paris 5 prostitute turned professional assassin. In Naraka, inmates are slaughtered, packaged, and delivered to Earth in cans, while a lunatic pedophile priest makes up a new heretic religion. Even worse things happen in the lower layers of the underground, hive-like structure ...Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, internal illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli."I am unable to think of a more original novel in any genre. Each paragraph is a delectable new treat in what you should think of as a diabolical Whitman's Sampler from Hell. I've never taken LSD and now I don't have to; after finishing NARAKA, its hideous, chimeral imagery raced ceaseless Tartarean circles in my brain, like a spew of appalling living things, and I was helpless to stop it. This book is a must-read for fans of any type of heavy-weight non-mainstream fiction, an unparalleled literary carpet-bombing that will warp your mind for some time to come." -Edward Lee, author of THE BIGHEAD and WHITE TRASH GOTHIC"Alessandro Manzetti's NARAKA is a dark, frightening and heartbreaking novel that takes an unflinching look at evil and courage. Highly recommended!" -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of GLIMPSE and V-WARS

From Two-Time Bram Stoker Award-winning autor Alessandro Manzetti 26 new poems telling in a new way the story of Jack the Ripper, between the alleys and shadows of Whitechapel district in East London during the Victorian Era. Did the Ripper consider himself an artist? Maybe his victims were still life sculptures? Discover the dark vision of the best know serial killer through this modern rhapsody playing the bloody melody of the canonical five victims and the life in Whitechapel slums. Jack is Back!Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, interior illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli.

A guide to some of the best horror and supernatural books, as recommended by several of the biggest names in the industry.Compiled and edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti, this is a guide to the best 150 books of modern horror, weird, and dark fantasy fiction (single author novels, novellas, and collections of short stories) published between 1986 and 2020. This captivating book includes publication details, reading notes and ratings for each work, as well as top-ten lists contributed by well-known writers, editors, critics, and essayists, including Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp, Ellen Datlow, Stephen Jones, Linda D. Addison, Jack Bantry, David Barnett, Mort Castle, Randy Chandler, Brian Evenson, Owl Goingback, Eric J. Guignard, Paula Guran, Grady Hendrix, Kate Jonez, S.T. Joshi, Edward Lee, RC Matheson, Lisa Morton, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Craig Spector, Angela Yuriko Smith, Dacre Stoker, and Lucy Taylor. This guide is an essential resource for readers and fans of 20th century horror and supernatural books, in a modern and easy-to-read format, to discover the best books of the horror genre. Come dive into 150 books of must-read horror.

Ambientato nel 1865, tra Romania e Bulgaria, il romanzo racconta la storia di Imre, di sua moglie Mimi e la figlia Lenore, una famiglia di zingari. Imre, padre e marito devoto, è un mezzo-zingaro, e commercia cavalli. I tre stanno rientrando in Romania per fare visita alla madre di Mimi, Anyeta, che si trova sul letto di morte. Imre, il capofamiglia, nasconde però un segreto: Anyeta aveva cercato di sedurlo, anni prima, in cambio di un prestito economico che le aveva chiesto. Anyeta è una strega, dotata di tremendi poteri, e sia la figlia che la comunità zingara ne sono spaventati. Eppure Mimi ritiene necessario farle visita un'ultima volta e approntare la cerimonia funebre. Non riescono, però, ad arrivare in tempo in Romania, Anyeta è già morta. Ma il suo spirito perverso vive ancora, e ha un unico obiettivo: trovare un corpo giovane di cui impossessarsi per continuare la sua esistenza terrena. Lenore, la giovane e bella figlia di Imre, è il soggetto ideale. Comincia così un viaggio da incubo, con lo spirito della megera che aleggia continuamente sulla famiglia, prima impossessandosi della povera Mimi tramite un macabro talismano zingaro - la mano del morto.

Look in my eyes. My bronze skin reflects the flames of the battles.I feed on bullets and shrapnel.I have trenches instead of veins and a bombardier's whirring plays my favorite symphony inside my big head. This is my story, with some of my best camouflages and disguises, and you should expect your peace plans to fail. Because that's what I do for a living.Look at my million golden teeth necklace. Ring any bells? Maybe you're too young. I probably should have mentioned the fireworks over the Baghdad night sky, my new friend, or the live broadcast of two great skyscrapers disintegrating. You know what I'm talking about, right? So, you can call me by one of my many names: Great General, Lock-box of the Powerful, Red Rain, Lord of Steel or, more simply, WAR.I appear as strife of many kinds, from Stalingrad to Scotland. Africa to Afghanistan, the civil war of Italy and the War Between the States, ghostly wars, drug wars, the battle of the sexes, World Wars I, II and visions of a holocaust yet to come. It's all herein and more, with poems both collaborative and individual.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Bram Stoker Award® winners Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti use their unique voices to create a dark, surrealistic poetry collection exploring the many ways shattered bodies, minds, and souls endure. They created poems of visionary imagery encompassing death, gods, goddesses and shadowy, Kafkaesque futures by inspiring each other, along with inspiration from others (Allen Ginsberg, Pablo Neruda, Phillis Wheatley, etc.).Construction of The Place started with the first bitten apple dropped in the Garden. The foundation defined by the crushed, forgotten, and rejected. Filled with timeless space, its walls weep with the blood of brutality, the tears of the innocent, and predatory desire. Enter and let it whisper dark secrets to you.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.Interview with the poets:What makes this poetry collection so special?Alessandro: Collaborations are the salt of poetry, can create special, unique blends and flavours. This book is exquisite, in that way.Linda: Collaborations can create remarkable work, whether it's poetry or fiction. Alessandro and I each did a third on our own and then a third together. This book was written with us in completely different time zones (Arizona & Italy), without ego and is the best poetry I've created so far.Tell us more about the theme of this book.Linda: There was no hard rules, we agreed to riff off any of the words in the title: Place; Broken; Thing(s). The real magic is how the book flowed from us, as we allowed our imagination freedom to play, trusting the dark, surrealistic tales told would fit; and they did!Alessandro: Imagine a collage of different places, connected by invisible wires. We play the role of the explorers of that elusive, borderlands world.Why should readers give this book or your work a try?Linda: Our book has unique songs to offer, something we couldn't recreate separately. It stands alone with any work we do in the future because even the poems I wrote by myself were influenced by working in our shared arena in undefinable ways.Alessandro: If you're a curious traveler, ready to walk with us along a trail without markers, this is a good book for you.