 Randy Chandler about my new collection of short stories THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE (Necro Publications, January 2020) for sale at Amazon:
"Alessandro Manzetti’s Radioactive Bride might be thought of as a sort of Einstein-Rosen Bridge of genre fiction, punching apocalyptic holes in spacetime because no single genre has the scope to contain his prodigious literary talent. While the stories in his new collection echo some of the best speculative works of H. P. Lovecraft (“The Color Out of Space”), William Burroughs (The Wild Boys) and Bram Stoker (The Lair of the White Worm), they are uniquely Manzettian. William Burroughs said “language is a virus from out of space.” Alessandro Manzetti sets those viral lyrics to the music of the spheres in this mind-bending collection." – Randy Chandler, Editor, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror
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 Cover reveal e preordini aperti a prezzo speciale sullo Store Independent Legions per L'ABITATORE DEL LAGO, graphic novel tratta dallo storico racconto lovecraftiano 'The Inhabitant of the Lake' di Ramsey Campbell, adattata e sceneggiata da me e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli, Edizione Collection a tiratura limitata (349 copie) e numerata, copertina flessibile con bandelle, formato 17x24, interni in bianco e nero, 60 tavole, 70 pagine. Collana: High Voltage. Serie 'Horror Cult' Albo nr. 2, che segue dunque 'Calcutta Horror' (Albo 1) Uscita: Dicembre 2020. Preordina la Graphic Novel sullo Store Independent Legions ________________________________________________________________________ Cover reveal of the Italian edition of the Graphic Novel 'L'Abitatore del Lago', based on the story 'The Inhabitant of the Lake' by Ramsey Campbell, coming in December 2020, in Italian and English, from Independent Legions, written by me and illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli. This is the second title of the Graphic Novels Serie 'Horror Cult', following 'Calcutta Horror', released in 2019.   Preordinabile a prezzo speciale sullo Store Independent Legions la mia novella horror/pulp ad ambientazione storica VESSEL - TERRA SANTA PULP , in uscita a Dicembre 2020 in Edizione Collection, tiratura limitata a 199 copie numerate, con inserto a colori illustrato da Stefano Cardoselli, autore anche della copertina. L'opera integra ed espande il racconto 'Vessel - Orrore in Terrasanta' pubblicato nel 2014 e non più disponibile sul mercato. Preordina il libro sullo Store Independent Legions Sinossi: Acri - 1084. Un ragazzo fiammingo affamato viene colto in fragrante in atti di cannibalismo. Il ricco mercante inglese Driskoll Cook lo punirà in modo esemplare, scatenando la sua feroce coppia di mastiff, cambiando per sempre la vita del ragazzo, e anche il proprio destino. Antiochia - 1098. Le truppe crociate assediano la città. Yaghisiyan, l’Emiro selgiudico, osserva dalle mura alcuni cavalieri scavare nel cimitero, a fianco dell’accampamento, per disseppellire i corpi dei compagni, arrostirne pezzi e divorarli. Manda degli emissari a Goffredo di Buglione, a capo delle truppe crociate, per protestare contro l’antropofagia diffusa tra gli infedeli. Nasce la leggenda dei Tafur, i diavoli viventi, i superstiti della legione degli straccioni di Pietro l’Eremita, bande di assassini, stupratori, cannibali che portano l’orrore in Terrasanta, affiancando a intermittenza gli eserciti cristiani, che li tollerano per opportunità. Un fiammingo sfregiato, Vessel, è uno dei loro capi. Gerusalemme - 1099. L’esercito crociato guidato da Goffredo di Buglione, Tancredi D’Altavilla, Roberto di Normandia e da altri nobili sferra l’attacco decisivo alla città santa. È il giorno della presa di Gerusalemme e del massacro delle truppe egiziane e saracene e di gran parte della popolazione. Al mattatoio partecipa anche la banda di Vessel, indossando divise crociate trafugate: Chenay, la sua donna armate di roncole, Portanero il gigante iberico collezionista di organi, Serafino, l’ex-frate psicopatico, e altri oscuri figuri. Una brigata di orrore che approfitterà dell’abbondanza di carne e sangue di quell’epica giornata per sfogare i propri istinti e predare oro e preziosi. La bandiera crociata sventola sulle torri di Gerusalemme, la battaglia è vinta e il Santo Sepolcro è finalmente in mani cristiane. Ma gli incubi in Terrasanta continuano, guidati al galoppo da Vessel lo Sfregiato e dalle sue orde fameliche verso la prossima battaglia. La prima crociata come non è mai stata raccontata e immaginata. Novella di circa 120 pagine, che integra e completa il racconto 'Vessel: Orrore in Terrasanta' (2014),   The Horror Writers Association (HWA) released the Preliminary Ballot for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards®.
I'm excited that three of my works made the Preliminary Ballot! The Novella THE KEEPER OF CHERNOBYL (Long Fiction category, Omnium Gatherum, October 2019), the Poetry Collection THE PLACE OF BROKEN THINGS written with Linda D. Addison (Poetry category, Crystal Lake Publishing, July 2019) and the Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR, written by me, based on a story by Poppy Z. Brite, and illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli (Graphic Novel category, Independent Legions, May 2019). Congratulations to all the others longlisted authors. 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Novel Goingback, Owl – Coyote Rage (Independent Legions Publishing) Goodfellow, Cody – Unamerica (King Shot Press) Lawson, Curtis M. – Black Heart Boys’ Choir (Wyrd Horror) Little, John R. – The Murder of Jesus Christ (Bad Moon Books) Malerman, Josh – Inspection (Del Rey) Miskowski, S.P. – The Worst is Yet to Come (TrepidatioPublishing) Moore, Michael J – Highway Twenty (Hellbound BooksPublishing LLC) Murray, Lee – Into the Ashes (Severed Press) Nevill, Adam L.G. – The Reddening (Ritual Limited) Taff, John F.D. – The Fearing (Grey Matter Press) Wendig, Chuck – Wanderers (Del Rey) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a First Novel Amor, Gemma – Dear Laura (Independently Published) Cull, Andrew – Remains (IFWG Publishing International) Day, Nicholas – Grind Your Bones to Dust (Excession Press) Guignard, Eric J. – Doorways to the Deadeye (JournalStone) Hopstaken, Steven and Prusi, Melissa – Stoker’s Wilde (Flame Tree Press) Lane, Michelle Renee – Invisible Chains (Haverhill HousePublishing) Luff, Cody T – Ration (Apex Book Company) Moulton, Rachel Eve – Tinfoil Butterfly (MCD x FSG Originals) Read, Sarah – The Bone Weaver’s Orchard (TrepidatioPublishing) Starling, Caitlin – The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Bérubé, Amelinda – Here There Are Monsters (Sourcebooks Fire) Dávila Cardinal, Ann – Five Midnights (Tor Teen) Ernshaw, Shea – Winterwood (Simon Pulse) Faring, Sara – The Tenth Girl (Imprint) Gardner, Liana – Speak No Evil (Vesuvian Books) Kurtagich, Dawn – Teeth in the Mist (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Marshall, Kate Alice – Rules for Vanishing (Viking Books for Young Readers) Nzondi – Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum) Salomon, Peter Adam – Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds(PseudoPsalms Press) West, Jacqueline – Last Things (Greenwillow Books) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish Vol. 2 (BOOM! Studios) Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish Vol. 3 (BOOM! Studios) Cates, Donny – Redneck Volume 3: Longhorns (Image Comics) Gaiman, Neil – Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books) Guillory, Rob – Rob Guillory’s Farmhand Volume 1: Reap What Was Sown (Image Comics) Lemire, Jeff – Gideon Falls Book 2: Original Sins (Image Comics) Lemire, Jeff – Gideon Falls Volume 3: Stations of the Cross(Image Comics) Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen (Image Comics) Manzetti, Alessandro – Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing) Tanabe, Gou – H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1 (Dark Horse Manga) __________________________ Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Breukelaar, J.S. – Like Ripples on a Blank Shore (Collision: Stories) (Meerkat Press, LLC) Cluley, Ray – Adrenaline Junkies (The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities) (Crossroad Press) Jones, Pam – Ivy Day (Spaceboy Books LLC) LaValle, Victor – Up from Slavery (Weird Tales Magazine #363)(Weird Tales Inc.) Manzetti, Alessandro – The Keeper of Chernobyl (Omnium Gatherum) Serafini, Matt – Rites of Extinction (Grindhouse Press) Smith, Farah Rose – Anonyma (Ulthar Press) Taborska, Anna – The Cat Sitter (Shadowcats) (Black Shuck Books) Tantlinger, Sara – To Be Devoured (Unnerving) Thomas, Richard – Ring of Fire (The Seven Deadliest) (Cutting Block Books) Warren, Kaaron – Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Shorts) __________________________ Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Chapman, Greg – “The Book of Last Words” (This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories) (Things in the Well Publishing) Kiste, Gwendolyn – “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” (Nightmare MagazineNov. 2019, Issue 86) Landry, Jess – “Bury Me in Tar and Twine” (Tales of the LostVolume 1: We All Lose Something!) (Things in the Well Publishing) Little, John R. – “Anniversary” (Dark Tides: A Charity Horror Anthology) (Gestalt Media) MacKenzie, Brooke – “The Elevator Game” (Who Knocks? Magazine Issue #2) O’Quinn, Cindy – “Lydia” (The Twisted Book of Shadows) (Twisted Publishing) Serna-Grey, Ben – “Where Gods Dance” (Apex Magazine Issue #118) Waggoner, Tim – “A Touch of Madness” (The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias) (LVP Publications) Westlake, Jack – “Glass Eyes in Porcelain Faces” (Black Static Issue #70) (TTS Press) White, Gordon B. – “Birds of Passage” (Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles) (Chthonic Matter) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Chambers, James – On the Night Border (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Chiang, Ted – Exhalation: Stories (Knopf) Evenson, Brian – Song for the Unraveling of the World (Coffee House Press) Hodson, Brad C. – Where Carrion Gods Dance (Washington Park Press) Howard, Kat – A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories(Gallery/Saga Press) Johnson, L.S. – Rare Birds: Stories (Traversing Z Press) Jonez, Kate – Lady Bits (Trepidatio Publishing) Langan, John – Sefira and Other Betrayals (Hippocampus Press) Read, Sarah – Out of Water (Trepidatio Publishing) Tremblay, Paul – Growing Things and Other Stories (William Morrow) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Aster, Ari – Midsommar (B-Reel Films, Square Peg) Busick, Guy and Murphy, Ryan – Ready or Not (Mythology Entertainment) Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things (Season 3, Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt) (Netflix) Eggers, Robert and Eggers, Max – The Lighthouse (A24, New Regency Pictures, RT Features) Flanagan, Mike – Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros., Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment) Gilroy, Dan – Velvet Buzzsaw (Netflix) Hageman, Dan and Hageman, Kevin – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1212 Entertainment, CBS Films, DDY, Entertainment One, Rolling Hills Productions, Sean Daniel Company, Starlight International Media) López, Issa – Tigers Are Not Afraid (Filmadora Nacional, Peligrosa) Peele, Jordan – Us (Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Universal Pictures) Sutherland, Teresa – The Wind (Soapbox Films, Divide/Conquer, Mind Hive Films) __________________________ Superior Achievement in an Anthology Beltran, Patrick and Ward, D. Alexander – The Seven Deadliest(Cutting Block Books) Brozek, Jennifer – A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods (Pulse Publishing) Cade, Octavia – Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good(Upper Rubber Boot Books) Datlow, Ellen – Echoes (Gallery/Saga Press) Golden, Christopher and Moore, James A. – The Twisted Book of Shadows (Twisted Publishing) Guignard, Eric J. – Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (Dark Moon Books) Johnson, Eugene and Dillon, Steve – Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something! (Things in the Well Publishing) Jones, Stephen – Best New Horror #29 (PS Publishing) Schweitzer, Darrell – Mountains of Madness Revealed (PS Publishing) Wilson, Robert S. – Nox Pareidolia (Nightscape Press) __________________________ Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Beal, Eleanor and Greenaway, Jonathan – Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality(University of Wales Press) Earle, Harriet E.H. – Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays (McFarland) Eighteen-Bisang, Robert and Miller, Elizabeth – Drafts of Dracula (Tellwell Talent) Grafius, Brandon R. – Reading the Bible with Horror(Lexington Books/Fortress Academic) Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra – Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press) Kachuba, John B. – Shapeshifters: A History (Reaktion Books) Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction(Quirk Books) Stobbart, Dawn – Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run! (University of Wales Press) Tibbetts, John C. – The Furies of Marjorie Bowen (McFarland) Volk, Stephen – Coffinmaker’s Blues: Collected Writings on Terror (PS Publishing) __________________________ Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction Clasen, Mathias – Evolution, Cognition, and Horror: A Précis of Why Horror Seduces (Journal of Cognitive Historiography Vol 4, No 2) Hurley, Gavin F. – Between Hell and Earth: Rhetorical Appropriation of Religious Space within Hellraiser (The Spaces and Places of Horror, Vernon Press) Kiste, Gwendolyn – Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 1) Liaguno, Vince A. – Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre (LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of Horror) Mann, Craig Ian – The Beast Without: The Cinematic Werewolf as a (Counter)Cultural Metaphor (Horror Studies Journal Volume 10.1) Renner, Karen J. – The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story (Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging, McFarland) Robinson, Kelly – Film’s First Lycanthrope: 1913’s The Werewolf (Scary Monsters Magazine #114) Waggoner, Tim – Riding Out the Storms (Writing in the Dark) Weich, Valerie E. – Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre(Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291) Worth, Aaron – From the Books of Wandering: Fin-De-Siècle Poetics of a Supernatural Figure (The Times Literary Supplement) __________________________ Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Addison, Linda D. and Manzetti, Alessandro – The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing) Cade, Octavia – Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press) Coffman, Frank – The Coven’s Hornbook & Other Poems (Bold Venture Press) Crum, Amanda – Tall Grass (Independently Published) Davitt, Deborah L. – The Gates of Never (Finishing Line Press) Lynch, Donna – Choking Back the Devil (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Mitchell, Zoe – Hag (Indigo Dreams Publishing) Scalise, Michelle – Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning(LVP Publications) Simon, Marge and Dietrich, Bryan D. – The Demeter Diaries(Independent Legions Publishing) Ward, Kyla Lee – The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities(P’rea Press) Wytovich, Stephanie M. – The Apocalyptic Mannequin: The Definition of Body is Buried (Raw Dog Screaming Press)  Live at Horror DNA the review by Gabino Iglesias of my poetry collection 'The Place of Broken Things' written in collaboration with Linda D. Addison. (Crystal Lake Publishing, July 2019)
Excerpt from the review: (...) There is something strange about literary collaborations. Asking two writers to come together and work on something when the rest of the time they are working alone always struck me as odd. Perhaps this is why amazing collaborations are rare. Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti’s The Place of Broken Things belongs to the small group of books that make a collaboration shine. (...) Addison and Manzetti work beautifully together here because they gravitate to the same themes and wrote poems that are somewhat similar in length. Furthermore, Addison and Manzetti’s voices pull off a beautiful dance in which they come together and mesh perfectly before once again pulling apart and regaining their uniqueness. Surprisingly, even the poems in which they collaborate manage to retain a voice that, more than half-Addison/half-Manzetti, sounds more like a perfect, organic combination of both. (...) The Place of Broken Things is dark, creepy, surreal, haunting, and beautiful. In a way, it surprised me with the variety of poems it contains. However, it is also as great as I expected it to be. Addison and Manzetti are both Bram Stoker Award winners, and this collection makes it easy to see why. Read the review at Horror DNA Buy the Book at Amazon Released today, from Necro Publications, my new collection of short stories THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE, including 17 new stories (and 1 reprint). Cover art by Eric Wilson, translation from Italian by Daniele Bonfanti, editing by Regina Garza Mitchell. Buy the book at Amazon Synopsis: Poisoned Uxor 77 radioactive meteor fucked Hearth with a big Kaboom! changing the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet. No more animal protein, no more moral values or conscience, weird and obscene mutations. The primordial spirit of cannibalism rises again from its invisible grave, walking hand in hand with old friends: Depravity and Sadism, and no one is safe anymore. Everyone is subject to a single watchword: survival at all costs. Yeah, you heard me, the ‘Radioactive Bride’ will marry you, dear future mankind, giving you a taste of her plutonium milk, turning you into exquisite prey or ravenous perpetrator. This is a sort of diary of these days told through the lives of a few characters: new kind of freaks, half man and half worm, captured to become circus attractions; synthetic serial killers built-in labs; two-headed prostitutes offering special services to their clients; landfills with fights between women on next-gen drugs and mutated big rats; processions of new feminists who hunt for human testicles; the show of a fat lady offering viewers a succulent reason to come back (small pieces of her giant body); rich collectors of human organs; innovative restaurants and hyper-extreme brothels where pimps and celebrated chefs prepare the daily menu for their cannibal and depraved customers; the new slums of Paris, Rome and Berlin ruled by criminals; a shemale Pope with her infamous court, and a pedophile Governor watching excited, his aquariums of biomechanical, heretic creatures inside the Red Area of the New Wall. So, strap on your seatbelt, move past moral, mercy and standard food, and get ready to be ejected at high speed towards the New World waiting for you.  "Alessandro Manzetti is for sure one of the most exciting writers to be bursting into the U.S. horror scene, and his new book sounds like a non-stop full-tilt horror party of futuristic perversion and outrage — right up my alley."
— Edward Lee, author of 'Header' and 'White Trash Gothic' "Perverse, unholy, deranged--with THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE, Alessandro Manzetti has created a ghastly rendition of a Post Apocalypse world whose frenzied denizens maim, mangle, and cannibalize to satisfy their obscene hungers. Images take root in one’s mind that you’d need a lobotomy to pick to dislodge: a grotesque She-Pope who practices her skeet shooting with human clay pigeons launched from a vibrating platform; an enormous obese “virgin” with petrified testicles woven into her braids who lounges seductively while the ultra-wealthy line up to obtain, with the aid of a state of the art extractor, a souvenir of her fat; a circus ringmaster from hell ornaments his top hat with a toothed vagina . I’d be tempted to say you can’t even imagine some of this stuff, except that Manzetti can and he has. Kudos to him for taking it to the edge—and then a good bit beyond." — Lucy Taylor, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of 'The Saferty of Unknown Cities' Buy the book at Amazon  Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Lucy Taylor about my new short story collection THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE; coming in january 17 from Necro Publications: "Perverse, unholy, deranged--with THE RADIOACTIVE BRIDE, Alessandro Manzetti has created a ghastly rendition of a Post Apocalypse world whose frenzied denizens maim, mangle, and cannibalize to satisfy their obscene hungers. Images take root in one’s mind that you’d need a lobotomy to pick to dislodge: a grotesque She-Pope who practices her skeet shooting with human clay pigeons launched from a vibrating platform; an enormous obese “virgin” with petrified testicles woven into her braids who lounges seductively while the ultra-wealthy line up to obtain, with the aid of a state of the art extractor, a souvenir of her fat; a circus ringmaster from hell ornaments his top hat with a toothed vagina. I’d be tempted to say you can’t even imagine some of this stuff, except that Manzetti can and he has. Kudos to him for taking it to the edge—and then a good bit beyond." --Lucy Taylor, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of The Safety of Unknown Cities   Good news, again, about my short story KIRTI. After the publication in Space and Time Magazine Issue 135 (December 2019) and the translation into Polish coming in March 2020 for Okolica Strachu Magazine, I'm happy to learn that the story will be included in 'YEAR'S BEST HARDCORE HORROR VOL.5' Anthology, edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax (Red Room Press), coming this year.
 Independent Legions ha rivelato l'illustrazione di copertina, by Stefano Cardoselli, della graphic novel L'ORRORE A RED HOOK, in uscita a Maggio 2019, che sarà sceneggiata e adattata da me (tratta dall'omonimo racconto di H.P. Lovecraft) e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli. Si tratta del secondo volume della serie di graphic novels 'Lovecraft Experience', che sarà stampato in 'Edizione Collection' con tiratura limitata e copie numerate, con interni in bianco e nero (circa 65 tavole). L'opera è preordinabile a prezzo speciale sullo Store Independent Legions.
 Cover art (by Stefano Cardoselli) of the March Issue of Polish Horror Magazine Okolica Strachu, including my story (translated into Polish) 'Kirti', and an interview.
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