 My new story TRASH VORTEX 696 will be published (in 2019) in SORROW Anthology (James Ward Kirk Fiction)
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 After the new novel SHANTI - THE HOLY CITY (to be released in Q2 2019), signed other two contract with cult horror publisher Necro Publications, for the new collection THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE (to be released in Q3 2019) and the new novel NEW SODOM (to be released in Q2 2020).
Dopo l'edizione inglese del romanzo SHANTI (Uscita 2019), già pubblicato in italiano, firmati altri due contratti con l'editore statunitense Necro Publications (editore cult, leader nell'hardcore horror dal 1993) per la pubblicazione in inglese della raccolta di racconti 'THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE' (Uscita 2019), contenente racconti già pubblicati in italiano, e il romanzo 'NEW SODOM' (Uscita 2020), inedito anche in lingua italiana.   I am honored and happy that my novel NARAKA (Independent Legions Publishing) and my poetry collection WAR (Crystal Lake Publishing, written with Marge Simon), has been listed on the Preliminary Ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards®
HWA Voting Members, if you would like to read my works listed on the Preliminary Ballot, feel free to email me ([email protected]) and I'll send you the links to download the digital files of the books. Here's the whole list of the works listed on the Preliminary Ballot: Superior Achievement in a Novel del Toro, Guillermo and Kraus, Daniel – The Shape of Water (Feiwel & Friends) Paolo Di Orazio – Dark Mary (Independent Legions Publishing) Katsu, Alma – The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) King, Stephen – The Outsider (Scribner) Jonathan Maberry – Glimpse (St. Martin’s Press) Josh Malerman – Unbury Carol (Del Rey) Alessandro Manzetti – Naraka (Independent Legions Publishing) Oates, Joyce Carol – Hazards of Time Travel (Ecco) Reid, Iain – Foe (Gallery/Scout Press) Saadawi, Ahmed – Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel (Penguin Books) Stoker, Dacre and Barker, J.D. – Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Paul Tremblay – The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow) Superior Achievement in a First Novel Barsa, Michael – The Garden of Blue Roses (Underland Press) Fine, Julia – What Should Be Wild (Harper) Gordon, Jerry – Breaking the World (Apex Book Company) Grau, T.E. – I Am the River (Lethe Press) Kiste, Gwendolyn – The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing) Lieske, Ryan – Fiction (Burning Willow Press, LLC) Lye, Harriet Alida – The Honey Farm: A Novel (Liveright) Setchfield, Nick – The War in the Dark (Titan Books) Sorensen, Chris – The Nightmare Room (Harmful Monkey Press) Stage, Zoje – Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press) Tony Tremblay – The Moore House (Twisted Publishing) Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Alameda, Courtney – Pitch Dark (Feiwel & Friends) Ernshaw, Shea – The Wicked Deep (Simon Pulse-Simon & Schuster) Heidicker, Christian McKay – Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Ireland, Justina – Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray) Kane, Dani – Wormholes: Book One of Axles and Allies (Barking Deer Press) Legrand, Claire – Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Books) Maberry, Jonathan – Broken Lands (Simon & Schuster) Snyman, Monique – The Night Weaver (Gigi Publishing) Watson, Mary – The Wren Hunt (Bloomsbury Publishing) White, Kiersten – The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Delacorte Press) Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Ahmed, Saladin – Abbott (BOOM! Studios) Antone, Alex and Wielgosz, Dave James – Cursed Comics Cavalcade (DC Comics) Azzarello, Brian – Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train (Image Comics) Bellaire, Jordie – Redlands Volume 1: Sisters by Blood (Image Comics) Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios) Hammond, Warren and Viola, Joshua – Denver Moon: Metamorphosis (Hex Publishers LLC) Victor LaValle – Victor LaValle’sDestroyer (BOOM! Studios) Lemire, Jeff – Gideon Falls Volume 1: The Black Barn (Image Comics) Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 3: Haven (Image Comics) Pichetshote, Pornsak – Infidel (Image Comics) Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Michael Bailey – Our Children, Our Teachers (Written Backwards) Feldman, Stephanie – The Barrens (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2018) Philip Fracassi – Shiloh (Lovecraft eZine Press) Hill, Joe – You Are Released (Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales) (Scribner) Kelley, Brent Michael – Cruce Roosters (Omnium Gatherum) Kurtz, Ed – Black’s Red Gold (At the Mercy of Beasts) (JournalStone) Usman Mlk. – Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung (Nightmare Magazine Issue #74) Rena Mason – The Devil’s Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror) (Adrenaline Press) Matthews, Mark – Body of Christ (Wicked Run Press) Angela Yuriko Smith – Bitter Suites (Createspace) Sullivan, Todd – Shape Shifting Priestess of the 1,000 Year War (Schlock! Horror!) (HellBound Books Publishing LLC) Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Deady, Tom – “All Summers End” (Unnerving Magazine, Issue #8) (Unnerving) Tori Eldridge – “Life After Breath”(Running Wild Anthology of Stories Volume 2) (Running Wild Press) English, Kary – “Cold, Silent, and Dark” (Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath) (WordFire Press) Fawver, Kurt – “The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking” (The Dissolution of Small Worlds) (Lethe Press) Herrman, Heather – “The Woman in the Blue Dress” (Dark Screams: Volume Ten) (Hydra) Jess Landry – “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing) Lee Murray – “Dead End Town”(Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International) Annie Neugebauer – “Glove Box” (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July 2018) Kit Power – “Fish Hooks” (New Fears 2) (Titan Books) Robertson, Andrew – “Her Royal Counsel”(Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland) (Exile Editions) Taff, John F.D. – “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black Spots) (Grey Matter Press) Kyla Ward – “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press) Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Christa Carmen – Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked (Unnerving) Gemma Files – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio Publishing) Eric J. Guignard – That Which Grows Wild (Cemetery Dance Publications) Iglesias, Gabino – Coyote Songs (Broken River Books) Thana Niveau – Octoberland (PS Publishing Ltd) Gene O'Neill – Frozen Shadows: And Other Chilling Stories (Crystal Lake Publishing) Paramaditha, Intan – Apple and Knife (Brow Books) John Claude Smith – Occasional Beasts: Tales (Omnium Gatherum) Lucy A. Snyder – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Taff, John F.D. – Little Black Spots (Grey Matter Press) Tim Waggoner – Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press) Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Aster, Ari – Hereditary (PalmStar Media) Averill, Meredith – The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 (Amblin Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television) Averill, Meredith – The Haunting of Hill House: Screaming Meemies, Episode 01:09 (Amblin Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television) Cosmatos, Panos and Stewart-Ahn, Aaron – Mandy (SpectreVision) Dyson, Jeremy and Nyman, Andy – Ghost Stories (Warp Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, Catalyst Global Media in association with Lionsgate) Fradley, Jeff, McBride, Danny and Green, David Gordon – Halloween (Blumhouse Productions, Miramax, Night Blade Holdings, Rough House Pictures, Trancas International Films, Universal Pictures) Garland, Alex – Annihilation (DNA Films, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Skydance Media) Heisserer, Eric – Bird Box (Bluegrass Films, Chris Morgan Productions, Universal Pictures) Ray, Billy and Smith, Mark L. – Overlord (Bad Robot, Paramount Pictures) Woods, Bryan, Beck, Scott, and Krasinski, John – A Quiet Place (Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night) Superior Achievement in an Anthology James Chambers and Masterson, Robert – A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press) Ellen Datlow – The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books) Simon Dewar – Suspended in Dusk II (Grey Matter Press) Eric J. Guignard– A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books) Doug Murano – Welcome to the Show (Crystal Lake Publishing) Lee Murray – Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press) Neal, David T. and Scott, Christine M. – The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror (Nosetouch Press) Marie O'Regan – Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre (Titan Books) Ward, D. Alexander – Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing) Worthen, Lyn – Quoth the Raven (Camden Park Press) Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Connolly, John – Horror Express (PS Publishing) Cutchins, Dennis R. and Perry, Dennis R. – Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Manchester University Press) Gambin, Lee – The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press) Hopton, Sarah Beth – Woman at the Devil’s Door: The Untold True Story of the Hampstead Murderess (Red Lightning Books) Ingham, Howard David – We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press) Jones, Darryl – Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror (Oxford University Press) Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson – It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing) Phillips, Kendall R. – A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema (University of Texas Press) Poole, W. Scott – Wasteland: The Great Ward and the Origins of Modern Horror (Counterpoint) Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland) Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Bruce Boston – Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing) Gary O. Clark – The Comfort of Screams (Alban Lake Publishing) David E. Cowen – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press) Jo Fletcher – The Hatch (Brooklyn Arts Press) Lynch, Donna – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Shepard, Oliver – Thirteen Nocturnes (Ikonograph Press) Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti– War (Independent Legions Publishing) Sara Tantlinger – The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books) West, Jacqueline – Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions (Alban Lake Publishing) Wren, Twyla – Gwendolyn Witch and Other Macabria (Independently Published) Please note these works must NOT be referred to as “Bram Stoker Award® Nominees” until the Final Ballot is formally announced on February 5.  My poem 'White Siege', written with Marge Simon, published in WAR collection (Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2018) was nominated for the 2019 SFPA Rhysling Awards, in 'Long Poem' category, and will be reprinted into the '2019 Rhysling Antology'
My story 'The Bearded Woman' will be reprinted in 'Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4' anthology1/15/2019  My story 'The Bearded Woman', originally published in 'Splatterpunk Forever' Anthology (Splatterpunk Zine, November 2018) will be reprinted in 'Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4' Anthology (Red Room Press, April 2019).
 Anteprima: Illustrazione di copertina, realizzata da Ben Baldwin, del mio prossimo romanzo (firmato Caleb Battiago) NUOVA SODOMA - La Resurrezione del Re Osceno, in uscita a Giugno 2019 per Independent Legions.
__________________________________________ Cover Reveal: Cover artwork, by Ben Baldwin, of my new novel in Italian (signed by my pen name Caleb Battiago) NUOVA SODOMA - La Resurrezione del Re Osceno (NEW SODOM - The Resurrection of the Obscene King), to be released in 2019 by Independent Legions.  Recensione di Silvia Riccò, per Horror Dipendenza, del romanzo 'Il Custode di Chernobyl' (Cut Up Publishing, Dicembre 2018): Abbiamo più volte parlato di Alessandro Manzetti e delle sue opere estreme ed apocalittiche firmate con lo pseudonimo "Caleb Battiago", il suo immorale alter ego. Manzetti questa volta mette da parte futuri distopici e perversi, e proietta la sua storia nel passato, durante la guerra fredda, per raccontarci in chiave horror/fantascientifica complotti e segreti celati dal governo sovietico. Il romanzo ha forma di diario e capitolo dopo capitolo ci addentriamo nella psiche del dottor Petrov, un uomo brillante ma tormentato dalla solitudine e dal senso di colpa per la morte della figlia; tutto ciò che rimane della sua esistenza è la ricerca a cui sta lavorando. Petrov è una sorta Victor Frankenstein al plutonio: gli omaggi all'opera di Mary Shelley sono molteplici, a partire dal nome del progetto denominato "Prometeo". Nel laboratorio bunker in cui è rinchiuso con gli altri scienziati forgiano mostri. Sprovveduti contadini delle campagne circostanti si offrono volontari per il trattamento sperimentale, ignari di ciò che realmente li attende. La maggior parte di essi finisce disciolta nelle piscine di proto-liquido o cotta dalle radiazioni; altri, forse ancora più sfortunati, sono gli "aborti", pazienti refrattari al trattamento sui quali i test hanno portato mutazioni impreviste. Molti degli umani potenziati sviluppano altri effetti collaterali oltre all'aspetto mostruoso: un comportamento aggressivo, ferino, e un insaziabile appetito per il cervello umano. Il dottore è fra tutti quello che sta portando i risultati più positivi: i soggetti dei suoi esperimenti, Konstantin e Boni, stanno rispondendo nel migliore dei modi alle insostenibili torture a cui li ha sottoposti ed è ad un passo dal creare i nuovi Adamo ed Eva di un apocalittico Eden. Finisce per legarsi a Boni, l'eterea ragazzina di Kiev, la sua musa, in cui rivede la figlia e verso la quale sviluppa un amore paterno, e non solo. Quando il dottore viene sospeso dal lavoro, tutto ciò che lo teneva aggrappato alla realtà, sprofonda in un vortice di alcolismo e follia. Gli anni passano ma ancora ha visioni della ragazzina di Kiev, e la sua esistenza non può dirsi completa fin a quando il cerchio non si sarà chiuso. Il custode di Chernobyl è dunque un romanzo struggente ed introspettivo: solitudine, senso di colpa, amore e ossessione, il tempo che sfugge, sono tematiche affrontate con la consueta cupa poetica dell'autore che ci trascina nei meandri più oscuri dell'animo umano. Ne Il custode di Chernobyl troviamo elementi classici della narrativa di Battiago, come radiazioni, mutazioni o la prospettiva di un'apocalisse incombente o già in corso. Non mancano ovviamente anche momenti prettamente horror: mostri deformi, crani svuotati, omicidi e torture. Non si indugia però eccessivamente sul particolare macabro; a creare disagio è soprattutto la freddezza scientifica ed il distacco con il quale Petrov narra i folli esperimenti a cui sono sottoposte le cavie. L'opera si discosta quindi dagli eccessi dei precedenti romanzi dell'autore ed è adatto ad un pubblico più ampio. Nonostante ciò, in momenti particolarmente onirici o violenti, l'eretico Battiago sembra voler prendere il controllo, venendo riacciuffato in extremis da Manzetti che lo rimette prontamente nella sua gabbia. Un romanzo intrigante e suggestivo adatto anche a chi volesse avvicinarsi al mondo di Manzetti /Battiago senza eccessivi shock. Acquista il libro sullo store dell'editore
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