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Released Weird Tales Magazine Issue 364, including my new dark poem 'The Canal'

Released Weird Tales Magazine Issue 364, edited by Jonathan Maberry, including my new dark poem 'The Canal' (freely inspired by the Lovecraft's poem) together with morks by many talented writers.
Buy your copy of Weird Tales Magazine #364

Pubblicato il numero 364 di Weird Tales Magazine, curato da Jonathan Maberry, che include la mia poesia dark 'The Canal' (liberamente ispirata all'omonima poesia di H.P. Lovecraft) e diverse altre opere di autori di grande talento.
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Whitechapel Rhapsody reviewed by Angela Yuriko Smith

'Whitechapel Rhapsody' reviewed by Bram Stoker Award Nominee Angela Yuriko Smith.
Excerpt from the review:  (...) Whitechapel Rhapsody is everything I’ve come to love about Manzetti and more. (...) For those willing to look behind the curtain they will see more than the horrific true life tale of a monster. They will also see the horror that occurs in a place where life is not sacred and has no dignity, and the only god is made of copper coins.
Read the full review.

Preordinabile la Graphic Novel IO SONO LEGGENDA

Preordinabile a prezzo scontato sullo Store Independent Legions la graphic novel IO SONO LEGGENDA, tratta dal celebre romanzo Io Sono Leggenda (I Am Legend, 1954) di Richard Matheson, sceneggiata da  me  e illustrata e colorata da Stefano Cardoselli, con un'introduzione di Richard Christian Matheson. Edizione Speciale Cartonata, tutta a Colori, formato 17x24, 120 tavole (per 130 pagine), tiratura limitata (399 copie numerate). Uscita: Maggio 2021
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New Book Release in English: NARAKA (Hardcover Limited Edition)

Released today, by Necro Publications, the hardcover, limited and signed edition of my novel NARAKA. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, interior illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli. The book is sold out.
You can find the trade paperback edition (and Kindle) of the book at Amazon.

Synopsis:  A S/F Horror novel by Two-time 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 Tatoué, 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 Léger, 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 …

“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“

Nuove Uscite: RAPSODIA WHITECHAPEL e KIKI: SONAGACHI PULP

Nuove Uscite: la raccolta di poesie dark RAPSODIA WHITECHAPEL e la graphic novel KIKI: SONAGACHI PULP (già esaurita in prevendita), sceneggiatura firmata come Caleb Battiago, illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli. Entrambe Edizioni Collection a tiratura extra-limitata con inserto a colori. Sotto i dettagli delle opere e alcune foto. RAPSODIA WHITECHAPEL, già pubblicata in inglese, è la mia nuova raccolta di poesie dark ispirate alle vicende di Jack lo Squartatore nella Londra Vittoriana di fine Ottocento, alle sue vittime e al quartiere di Whitechapel dell'epoca, tra macellerie, locali oscuri, ospedali con pazienti in preda alla follia da sifilide, vicoli e prostitute, povertà e miseria. 
Edizione Speciale  da collezione a tiratura super-limitata, illustrazione di copertina di Wendy Saber Core, illustrazioni interne e inserto a colori illustrato da Stefano Cardoselli. Tiratura limitata a 50 copie numerate firmate da me (con possibilità di dedica), circa 120 pagine su carta a grammatura speciale, sovraccoperta all black 'Jack is Back'.
Acquista Rapsodia Whitechapel sullo Store Independent Legions
La graphic novel KIKI: SONAGACHI PULP, sceneggiata da me, firmata con lo pseudonimo di Caleb Battiago e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli, realizzata in tiratura extra-limitata per il collezionista Luca Gnuva, è il numero zero della serie a fumetti 'Kiki', che proseguirà con albi a tiratura standard. Protagonista del fumetto è ovviamente la killer professionista, ex prostituta, Kiki, personaggio iconico della fiction di genere, anche sul mercato internazionale, protagonista dei miei romanzi 'Naraka' e 'Shanti'.
La scena si muove dall'apocalittico quartiere di Parigi Sud 5, di un futuro, distopico mondo, fino al celebre quartiere a luci rosse di Sonagachi di una Calcutta alla deriva della depravazione e mercificazione femminile. Obiettivo di Kiki è eliminare, Shaitan Moonchen, criminale super-pappone che domina la prostituzione della città, e non solo. 
Mio soggetto originale e sceneggiatura,  copertina e disegni di Stefano Cardoselli. Tiratura super-limitata (36 Copie numerate e firmate da me), Edizione Collection, formato 17x24, 71 tavole in bianco e nero, 90 pagine. Sei illustrazioni interne a colori. Serie 'Kiki' numero zero, collana High Voltage.
Opera esaurita in prevendita.

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Weird Tales Magazine Issue #364 (including my poem 'The Canal') Cover Reveal

I'm so honored to be on board the new issue (#364) of Weird Tales Magazine, coming in November 11, edited by Jonathan Maberry, with my new poem 'The Canal', inspired by the Lovecraft's work, together with authors and friends like Joe R. Lansdale, Linda D. Addison, Rena Mason, Dacre Stoker, Lee Murray, Tim Waggoner, Weston Ochse and many more.
The gorgeous cover art is by Lynne Hansen.
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Onorato di essere a bordo del prossimo numero della storica rivista Weird Tales Magazine, curata da Jonathan Maberry, in uscita l'11 Novembre, con la mia poesia inedita 'The Canal', ispirata all'omonimo pezzo di H.P. Lovecraft, insieme a opere di altri autori e amici, tra i quali Joe R. Lansdale, Linda D. Addison, Rena Mason, Dacre Stoker, Lee Murray, Tim Waggoner, Weston Ochse e tanti altri. La bellissima ed evocativa illustrazione di copertina è di Lynne Hansen

Praise for Whitechapel Rhapsody

"Alessandro Manzetti’s “Whitechapel Rhapsody” is a red trance of divine and malefic beauty. His poems, brilliant with imagery and nightmare, are exquisite traumas beguiling the five senses. Depravity was never so lyrical, its dread so ravishing."
—Richard Christian Matheson, author of 'Zoopraxis' and 'Scars'

“Manzetti gives exquisite voice, not just to the devil in a top hat, but also to the streets where sin thrives within greedy and lustful inhabitants. In this master poet’s hands, red becomes a revealing refrain for false healers, ink for letters and framing for the maddening dissections of each victim, named in their own poem, along with the fated address. Cardoselli’s haunting art spotlights the murdered/er’s shadows.”
—Linda D. Addison, multi-award winning author of “How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend” and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

"Surreal, potent, incisive, inventive, intelligent, brutal, and literally bloody good poetry from one of today’s leading dark poets. The Ripper’s world and his mania come alive in these pages. Jack is definitely back!"
—Bruce Boston, Multiple time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'Dark Matters' and 'Artifacts'.

"Gritty, sensuous and powerfully visceral, in WHITECHAPEL RHAPSODY, acclaimed author of dark poetry Alessandro Manzetti leads the reader on a nightmare journey through the Ripper’s hunting grounds, the impoverished, crime-ridden slums of London’s East End. In these labyrinthine alleyways — the fetid tenements and reeking brothels where 'Madam Syphilis walks on tiptoe' — there are a hundred wretched ways to die, but none more grisly than bleeding out beneath the Ripper’s blade.
In many of the poems, Manzetti explores the desperate circumstances of the streetwalkers who fell victim to Jack’s implacable razor, those whose 'only friends are alleys, the Thames, and its rats with human thoughts.' In others he adopts the point of view of the madman, who gifts an investigator from the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee with the kidney of a butchered prostitute, daring him to 'bring it close to your ear, like a shell and you can feel the sea of Hell.'
Surely the ‘sea of Hell' in which the Ripper acted out his erotic mania was never rendered with such seductive horror as Manzetti’s richly lyrical and boldly graphic poetry."
—Lucy Taylor, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'The Safety of Unknown Cities' and 'Spree and Other Stories'

"Whitechapel Rhapsody is an assault on the five senses, transporting readers back in time to London’s seedy East End. Alessandro Manzetti creates horrific images drenched in blood using masterfully crafted prose and perfect timing. You can feel the dampness of the night, smell the sweat, decay, and death, and hear the footsteps of the legendary Jack the Ripper on the cobblestone streets behind you. This book will have you sleeping with the lights on. A must for every lover of dark poetry."
‒Owl Goingback, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'Crota' and 'Coyote Rage'

“A brutal ripper of a collection from multi-award-winning poet Alessandro Manzetti, a ‘master of bones and knives’, whose poems are ‘pustules of morbid memories’ both as ‘fast as razors and slow as cancer’. Whitechapel Rhapsody will eviscerate you.”
‒ Lee Murray, three-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominee, and author of 'Grotesque: Monster Stories'

In uscita a Ottobre la Graphic Novel KIKI: SONAGACHI PULP

In uscita a Ottobre (copie già esaurite) per Independent Legions, la graphic novel KIKI: SONAGACHI PULP, numero zero della serie KIKI, che finalmente esordirà anche a fumetti. Avventura nuova di zecca, tra Parigi Sud 5 e Calcutta, firmata da Caleb Battiago, creatore di Kiki e mio doppelgänger, e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli. Questo numero zero a tiratura extra limitata è stato realizzato per il collezionista Luca Gnuva. La serie Kiki proseguirà nel 2021 con albi a tiratura standard.

In uscita a Dicembre l'Edizione Speciale della Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR

In uscita la prima settimana di Dicembre 2020 l'Edizione Speciale, in italiano, della graphic novel CALCUTTA HORROR, sceneggiata da me, illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli, tratta da un racconto di Poppy Z. Brite, primo (e finora unico) fumetto italiano in nomination al Bram Stoker Award. Rispetto all'edizione originale, ci sarà la nuova illustrazione di copertina variant di Stefano Cardoselli e un finale esteso con 6 tavole inedite a colori. Questa Edizione Speciale di CALCUTTA HORROR è preordinabile sullo Store Independent Legions. Preordina.