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"Alessandro Manzetti is attracting a lot of attention in the horror field and my guess is he's about to attract a lot more. Check him out. "
--Joe R. Lansdale
"Alessandro Manzetti is a major new voice in dark fiction. Bold, daring and unafraid. "
--Richard Chizmar
"Alessandro Manzetti's NARAKA is a dark, frightening and heartbreaking novel that takes an unflinching look at evil and courage. Highly recommended!"
--Jonathan Maberry, about 'NARAKA'
"I am unable to think of a more original novel in any genre. 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, about 'NARAKA'
"A frenzied explosion of controlled lunacy unlike anything else you'll read this year ... or next."
--David J. Schow, about 'NARAKA'
"A gut punch of a novel that brings to mind-and then exceeds-the hellscapes of Dante and Bosch, read NARAKA at your own risk: its images will infiltrate your being and take root in your mind."
--Lucy Taylor, about 'NARAKA'
"A stark, brutal vision of a future shrouded in darkness and steeped in blood. This is sharp-edged science fiction that claws deeper into your brain with every word you read."
--Tim Waggoner, about 'NARAKA'
"Many works deal with the darker sides of existence and what it means to be alive, to be human, or something other than human--anything but human--but I have honestly never read anything that does it quite the way Manzetti does it in NARAKA. Raw and deeply disturbing, I can guarantee you NARAKA is unlike anything you've experienced before. Not to be missed"
--Greg F. Gifune, about 'NARAKA'
"This is a wild ride through a new kind of hell. Visceral. Reminiscent of Clive Barker"
--Michael Bailey, about 'NARAKA'
“One of the major strengths of Naraka lies in its language, which whirlwinds forward with a kind manic intensity that sweeps the reader along with it. Manzetti is a gifted poet, and many of the prose passages here could stand alone as poetry. Highly recommended for literary aficionados of dark and explicit horror"
—Bruce Boston, about 'NARAKA'
"While many horror writers will lead us to the edge of an abyss and force us to look, Alessandro Manzetti doesn’t hesitate to hurl the reader over, plunging us into the pit of darkness, where we are chased, starved and breathless, through the cavernous hellish Narakas of a penitentiary on the moon -- labyrinthine pathways that end only in hurt. Strangest of all, despite the depravity on these pages, encounters that make us recoil with their corruption, there is a beauty to Manzetti’s poet-prose and as much as we would like to look away, we really can’t"
—Lee Murray, about 'NARAKA'
"The imagery is exceptional – it reminded me of someone taking one of the stark, bold graphic stories you’d expect to see in a Heavy Metal magazine and writing it out, capturing all of that disturbing artwork in words. If you love dark, graphic dystopian horror, will not be dissuaded by the gruesome and scenes of cannibalism, and seek out the chaotic, artistic and extreme, this book is for you. It made for unusual vacation reading, but I found it so remarkable that I have to rate it a five out of five"
--Chantal Boudreau - Horror Addicts, about 'NARAKA'
"No escape. Do you have the strength to, as Hunter S. Thompson put it, 'Buy the ticket-Take the ride?' If you do, it’s time to step up and see the show. NARAKA is ready, now it’s your move…
A revolutionary novel from a true master, Alessandro Manzetti"
--Brian James Lewis - Damaged Skull Writer, about 'NARAKA'
"Definitely not for the fainthearted, this novel is hardcore horror. Highly-recommended for its daring and brilliant use of language and myth."
—Paul Dale Anderson, about 'NARAKA'
"Alessandro Manzetti is at heart a dark poet, but what makes his fiction so compelling is the way he combines lyricism, visceral horrors, and lush plotting. Reading these stories is like being torn open by a clawed hand in a velvet glove"
—Lisa Morton, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
"In your face and in your guts"
—Mort Castle, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
"The Garden of Delight’s stories are written dreams, where narrative logic inevitably gives way to surreal transformation.Behind this hallucinatory prose, Manzetti mixes splatter with punk in equal measure. He explores the cracks in society: a twilight world of depraved criminals, victims of oppression, and a philosophy where sex, violence, and religion are irretrievably tangled. He also blurs together elements of various speculative genres to create his dark dreamscapes, allowing the surreal symbolism of magical realism, the city-dwelling beasts of urban fantasy and the alluring technology of cyberpunk to each play their part."
—Women Write About Comics Journal, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
—Lisa Morton, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
"In your face and in your guts"
—Mort Castle, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
"The Garden of Delight’s stories are written dreams, where narrative logic inevitably gives way to surreal transformation.Behind this hallucinatory prose, Manzetti mixes splatter with punk in equal measure. He explores the cracks in society: a twilight world of depraved criminals, victims of oppression, and a philosophy where sex, violence, and religion are irretrievably tangled. He also blurs together elements of various speculative genres to create his dark dreamscapes, allowing the surreal symbolism of magical realism, the city-dwelling beasts of urban fantasy and the alluring technology of cyberpunk to each play their part."
—Women Write About Comics Journal, about 'THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT'
"The poems are chillingly brutal, imbued with the waste and the depravity of war, but the way these poets tell describe it is bewitching, the images too startlingly vivid to look away. A sublime collection from two of the best."
—Lee Murray, about 'WAR' (written with Marge Simon)
"Bram Stoker Award® winners Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti have created a dark, unflinching masterpiece of poetry that envisions and dissects the horror of war. his is an intense and powerful collection that will leave the reader shaken by the horrific beauty of the authors’ visions."
—Judi Comeau, about 'WAR' (written with Marge Simon)
—Lee Murray, about 'WAR' (written with Marge Simon)
"Bram Stoker Award® winners Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti have created a dark, unflinching masterpiece of poetry that envisions and dissects the horror of war. his is an intense and powerful collection that will leave the reader shaken by the horrific beauty of the authors’ visions."
—Judi Comeau, about 'WAR' (written with Marge Simon)
