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Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy, AKA Caleb Battiago) 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 (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections.
English publications include his novels Shanti - The Sadist Heaven (2019) and Naraka - The Ultimate Human Breeding (2018), the novella The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019), the collections The Radioactive Bride (2020 and 2022) and The Garden of Delight (2017) the poetry collections 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 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). He 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) and 2021 Rhysling Anthology (2021) 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, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing’s Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Splatterpunk Forever, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3, 4, 9, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, World of Light and Darkness, One of Us, Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, Shakespeare Unleashed. |
In addition to the Bram Stoker Award (which he has won three-time, and been nominated multiple time), he is a winner of the SFPA Elgin Award (along with multiple nominations), and a winner of the HWA Specialty press Award which he received as the owner and editor-in-chief of Independent Legions Press.
He has been nominated multiple times for the Splatterpunk Awards, This Is Horror Awards, Rhysling Awards and other literary prizes. His works received honorabile mentions and mentions in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13.
Manzetti is the CEO and Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of Molotov Magazine (in Italian), an HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. He has twice served on the Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Award Jury, and in 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair. Bram Stoker Awards Website Page Amazon Page
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)
He has been nominated multiple times for the Splatterpunk Awards, This Is Horror Awards, Rhysling Awards and other literary prizes. His works received honorabile mentions and mentions in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13.
Manzetti is the CEO and Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of Molotov Magazine (in Italian), an HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. He has twice served on the Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Award Jury, and in 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair. Bram Stoker Awards Website Page Amazon Page
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)
