Alessandro Manzetti

A guide to some of the best horror and supernatural books, as recommended by several of the biggest names in the industry.Compiled and edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti, this is a guide to the best 150 books of modern horror, weird, and dark fantasy fiction (single author novels, novellas, and collections of short stories) published between 1986 and 2020. This captivating book includes publication details, reading notes and ratings for each work, as well as top-ten lists contributed by well-known writers, editors, critics, and essayists, including Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp, Ellen Datlow, Stephen Jones, Linda D. Addison, Jack Bantry, David Barnett, Mort Castle, Randy Chandler, Brian Evenson, Owl Goingback, Eric J. Guignard, Paula Guran, Grady Hendrix, Kate Jonez, S.T. Joshi, Edward Lee, RC Matheson, Lisa Morton, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Craig Spector, Angela Yuriko Smith, Dacre Stoker, and Lucy Taylor. This guide is an essential resource for readers and fans of 20th century horror and supernatural books, in a modern and easy-to-read format, to discover the best books of the horror genre. Come dive into 150 books of must-read horror.

From Two-Time Bram Stoker Award-winning autor Alessandro Manzetti 26 new poems telling in a new way the story of Jack the Ripper, between the alleys and shadows of Whitechapel district in East London during the Victorian Era. Did the Ripper consider himself an artist? Maybe his victims were still life sculptures? Discover the dark vision of the best know serial killer through this modern rhapsody playing the bloody melody of the canonical five victims and the life in Whitechapel slums. Jack is Back Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, interior illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli.

Bram Stoker Award(R) winners Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti use their unique voices to create a dark, surrealistic poetry collection exploring the many ways shattered bodies, minds, and souls endure.

Authors from around the world address the idea of sorrow through the lens of horror. These stories approach a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others. Sorrow is an universal emotion, and sometimes it frightens us. Come and see. You'll not be sorry.

Look in my eyes. My bronze skin reflects the flames of the battles. I feed on bullets and shrapnel. I have trenches instead of veins and a bombardier's whirring plays my favorite symphony inside my big head. This is my story, with some of my best camouflages and disguises, and you should expect your peace plans to fail. Because that's what I do for living. Look at my million golden teeth necklace. Ring any bells? Maybe you're too young. I probably should have mentioned the fireworks over the Baghdad night sky, my new friend, or the live broadcast of two great skyscrapers disintegrating. You know what I'm talking about, right? So, you can call me by one of my many names: Great General, Lock-box of the Powerful, Red Rain, Lord of Steel or, more simply, WAR. I appear as strife of many kinds, from Stalingrad to Scotland. Africa to Afghanistan, the civil war of Italy and the War Between the States, ghostly wars, drug wars, the battle of the sexes, World Wars I, II and visions of a holocaust yet to come. It's all herein and more, with poems both collaborative and individual. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing--Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Il nuovo romanzo dal vincitore del Bram Stoker Award.Grande Canada, Moosonee. Sono trascorsi 16 anni dallo schianto di Uxor 77 e da allora la citt assediata dalla Milizia governativa, impegnata a sterminare i figli della Peste Bianca, sopravvissuti contaminati, mostri di nuova generazione. Nessuno deve uscire dai recinti di quarantena. L'ordine chiaro, ma c' chi si ribella. A bordo della Homeless Doll, un gruppo di disperati tenta la fuga verso il Trash Vortex 147, un'isola di plastica, un enorme accumulo di spazzatura galleggiante che non figura nemmeno sulle mappe. Ma sar davvero un posto sicuro o si riveler l'ennesimo girone di un inferno che non ammette via d'uscita? Un viaggio di speranza e perdizione in cui passato e futuro s'incontrano in una spirale di violenza, cannibalismo, perversione, chiudendo il cerchio di un Samsara apocalittico. Ormai tempo di azzerare il vecchio mondo e prepararsi al nuovo che avanza, col pelo lucido e la lunga coda; un mondo da ripensare, comunque vada a finire...Illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core, illustrazioni interne e di quarta di Stefano Cardoselli

A S/F Horror novel by Bram Stoker Award Winning author Alessandro Manzetti.Welcome to New Belmarsh Penitentiary, a space farm of human meat, where Slicers dispatch fleeing captives and organs are mechanically excised from the flesh and kept alive. Torture and death in a thousand variations await the dying and the damned. After the impact of radioactive, disease-bringing meteorite Uxor77 (presenting a new Year 0), a slow but unrelenting apocalypse is triggered. Earth is poisoned, agriculture compromised. In an already over-exploited environment, this leads to a global food crisis. Only the rich can afford what little vegetables and meat remain clean. Cannibalism is just around the corner.In the year 41 post-Uxor, countries like New France are heavily militarized and entire districts out of control, such as South Paris 5, governed by the criminal boss Big Blue, an "artist" who collects sadistic human installations. The wealthy dine at illegal cannibalistic restaurants like Le Sphinx Tatou , where they can have sadistic sex and unorthodox meals with "disposable" prostitutes, while mutated rats compete with human wretches on the streets for scraps of food. New Moon Corporation is making a profit out of this mess, experimenting with new drugs and breeding humans to produce meat for the rich. To this end, NARAKA, aka New Belmarsh Penitentiary, is built on the Moon, a way to control the spreading criminality by removing from the planet the worst scum of Earth. This includes Kiki L ger, former South Paris 5 prostitute turned professional assassin. In Naraka, inmates are slaughtered, packaged, and delivered to Earth in cans, while a lunatic pedophile priest makes up a new heretic religion. Even worse things happen in the lower layers of the underground, hive-like structure ...Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, internal illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli."I am unable to think of a more original novel in any genre. Each paragraph is a delectable new treat in what you should think of as a diabolical Whitman's Sampler from Hell. 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, author of THE BIGHEAD and WHITE TRASH GOTHIC"Alessandro Manzetti's NARAKA is a dark, frightening and heartbreaking novel that takes an unflinching look at evil and courage. Highly recommended " -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of GLIMPSE and V-WARS

Dall'autore vincitore del Bram Stoker Awards(R) Il Prequel del romanzo 'Naraka'.Justine e Juliette, rimaste orfane, vengono affidate alle "cure" del collegio Sainte Marie di Madame Desroches, nera matrona transgender di Parigi Sud 5. Le due sorelle diverranno prede e predatrici di un mondo brutale e senza speranza, dove l'unica meta rappresentata da Shanti, la Citt Santa, l'ultima diga della deriva universale. Due destini che si rivelano in una Parigi apocalittica, distopica, con i suoi quartieri bordello e i ristoranti di carne umana, e neldeserto, tra i cantieri e i serragli sub-umani della repubblica Mesoamericana. Una entit , sopravvissuta al tempo, tiene le fila di tutto e regna sul paradiso artificiale di Shanti. Ma la malavita della Nuova Francia, guidatada Big Blue, e la potente multinazionale New Moon Corporation, vogliono metterele mani sulla Citt Santa. Entrano in gioco killer professionisti e giochi di potere, torna in azione la sensuale e letale Kiki L ger, la protagonista di Naraka. Prefazione di Alan D. Altieri

Dall'autore vincitore del Bram Stoker Award(R) Il Penitenziario spaziale di New Belmarsh sulla Luna, chiamato il Naraka, un progetto pilota di detenzione aliena con finalit di controllo del crimine dilagante sulla Terra. Ma, dietro questa copertura, c' molto altro. La sovrappopolazione, la deriva ecologica radioattiva e morale, l'indisponibilit di risorse proteiche, creano nuove esigenze, un nuovo mondo. Una nuova visione, cinica e ancestrale, apocalittica. Il Naraka diventa il primo allevamento di carne umana moderno e organizzato. Neri protagonisti, come la sensuale killer Kiki L ger, musa, predatrice e preda nello stesso tempo di una Parigi marcia e distopica, vorace di carne e di esistenze, vivranno l'incubo sulla propria pelle.

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror, surrealism, crime, and noir. Set in a large America city, Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late-night streets: prostitutes, pimps, a thief, an arsonist, a police detective, a psychotic killer, and more. Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Baldwin's striking illustrations. This is a dark read with some explicit graphic content."Original, intelligent and exquisitely rendered, Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force, a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts, where each part is as important as the whole. In a world of cookie-cutter plots and tired poetry, Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air, shadowy, dangerous, and addictive as sin." -Greg F. Gifune, author of The Bleeding Season"When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic, the effect can be shocking, luminous ... transgressive. The collision of talents in this extraordinary work practically establishes a new genre - macabre noir." -Robert Dunbar, author of Willy"Populated by denizens who straddle the line between salvation and damnation, Sacrificial Nightsreads like a flashlight exploration of the darkness lurking behind closed doors and down blind alleys. Boston and Manzetti deftly navigate the shadows where human monsters dwell." -Michael McBride, author of Subterrestrial

Ambientato nel 1865, tra Romania e Bulgaria, il romanzo racconta la storia di Imre, di sua moglie Mimi e la figlia Lenore, una famiglia di zingari. Imre, padre e marito devoto, un mezzo-zingaro, e commercia cavalli. I tre stanno rientrando in Romania per fare visita alla madre di Mimi, Anyeta, che si trova sul letto di morte. Imre, il capofamiglia, nasconde per un segreto: Anyeta aveva cercato di sedurlo, anni prima, in cambio di un prestito economico che le aveva chiesto. Anyeta una strega, dotata di tremendi poteri, e sia la figlia che la comunit zingara ne sono spaventati. Eppure Mimi ritiene necessario farle visita un'ultima volta e approntare la cerimonia funebre. Non riescono, per , ad arrivare in tempo in Romania, Anyeta gi morta. Ma il suo spirito perverso vive ancora, e ha un unico obiettivo: trovare un corpo giovane di cui impossessarsi per continuare la sua esistenza terrena. Lenore, la giovane e bella figlia di Imre, il soggetto ideale. Comincia cos un viaggio da incubo, con lo spirito della megera che aleggia continuamente sulla famiglia, prima impossessandosi della povera Mimi tramite un macabro talismano zingaro - la mano del morto - e poi minacciando la piccola Lenore. Imre sar costretto a fronteggiare la tremenda minaccia per salvare la moglie e la figlia, aiutato unicamente da un vecchio zingaro di nome Joseph e da un ragazzone ritardato che per nasconde incredibili poteri, Constantin. L'Ammansitore - una sorta di tremendo marchingegno per "ammansire" i cavalli, una cinghia dotata di spuntoni che di fatto lobotomizza le povere bestie - acquister mano a mano pi importanza nella storia, e diverr strumento indispensabile per scacciare lo spirito di Anyeta dai corpi di cui si impossessata. Il romanzo ha vinto il prestigioso Bram Stoker Awards(R).