Alessandro Manzetti of Rome, Italy, is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer, editor, scriptwriter, and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively, with more than forty books appearing in Italian and in English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels, and collections.
His ​English publications include his novels Shanti – The Sadist Heaven (2019);  and Naraka – The Ultimate Human Breeding (2018); the novella The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019 and 2023); the collections The Radioactive Bride (2020 and 2022); and The Garden of Delight (2017). His poetry collections include Kubrick Rhapsody (2022, with Karen Runge); Dancing with Maria's Ghost (2021); Whitechapel Rhapsody (2020); The Place of Broken Things (2019, with Linda D. Addison); War (2018, with Marge Simon); No Mercy (2017); Sacrificial Nights (2016, with Bruce Boston); Eden Underground (2015); Venus Intervention (2014, with Corrine de Winter); the graphic novels The Sixth Sentinel (2023), Kraken Inferno (2022); The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021); Calcutta Horror (2019); Her Life Matters (2020); and the essay/guide 150 Exquisite Horror Books (2021).
Manzetti edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016); The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 – Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester); Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti); Rhysling Anthology 2021 (2021); Enter Boogeyman (Retail Edition, November 2024).
​His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Canadian, Russian and Polish magazines such as Weird Tales Magazine; Dark Moon Digest; Splatterpunk Zine; Disturbed Digest; Space and Time Magazine; Darker Magazine; Dark Moon Digest, and anthologies such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13; Classic Monsters Unleashed; Splatterpunk Forever; Best Hardcore Horror of the Year (Volumes 2, 4, 5, and 6);  The Big Book of Blasphemy; Midnight Under the Big Top; World of Light and Darkness; One of Us; Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena; and Shakespeare Unleashed; Bestiary of Blood.
In addition to his Bram Stoker Award accolades, Manzetti is a winner of the SFPA Elgin Award (for which he has also received numerous nominations), and has been nominated multiple times for the Splatterpunk Awards, This Is Horror Awards, and the Rhysling Awards.
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Awards and Nominations List:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2021 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2015 winner
• SFPA Elgin Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2022 nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2020 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 three-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2018 nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2017 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2016 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2014 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2019 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2018 nominee
• Rhysling Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 nominee
• Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 nominee
• This is Horror Awards 2017 nominee
• Indie Horror Book Awards 2019 nominee
• HWA Specialty Press Awards 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press)