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Launched the Kickstarter Campaign for 'BERLIN EXTREME' Graphic Novel!

Are you ready for the craziest graphic novel you've ever seen?
Launched just now on Kickstarter the crowdfunding campaign for 'BERLIN EXTREME - The Ultimate Wall' Graphic Novel, written by me and illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli (Heavy Metal, 2000 AD), featuring Kiki and Messerschmitt, two of the main characters of my novels 'Naraka' and 'Shanti'.
Take a look at the project page (containing video, illustrations, exclusive plegdes and many more) and please support us and share the news!
Visit the Berlin Extreme Kickstarter Page and support the project.

Appena lanciata la campagna di crowdfunding su Kickstarter per la realizzazione della graphic novel BERLIN EXTREME, scritta da me e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli (Heavy Metal, 2000 AD)
Prevista anche l'edizione italiana (c'è il pledge specifico 'THE DUCHESS - SIGNED COPY -  ITA EDITION)
Supportate il progetto (non ve ne pentirete, basta dare un'occhiata alle tavole e alle specifiche e materiali di progetto, seguendo il link) e condividete la news!
Visita la pagina Kickstarter di Berlin Extreme e supporta il progetto.

SHANTI (Novel) Reviewed by Angela Yuriko Smith

My new novel in English 'SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN' (Necro Publications) reviewed by Angela Yuriko Smith.
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From the review:  Shanti is a wonderful, horrible story. It reads like poetry that spins the spasmodic dance of mortality into a ballet. The word play is beautiful (…) It is viscous, graphic, assaulting, brilliant and worth surviving. There is beauty in horror. This is beautiful horror (…)​ Praise for the book:
"Manzetti guides us through a depraved and soul-scouring journey into the brutal and apocalyptic world of South Paris 5, where human flesh is the entree du jour and body packaging services a thriving business. Here desperate degenerates play Meat Roulette, a hideous game of chance in which losers get to choose which body part will be hacked off, and teenaged girls are recruited to service the scum of an experimental detention program in the baking emptiness of the Sonoran Desert. A master of extreme horror, Manzetti describes a world steeped in cruelty and perversion with a lyricism that often verges on the sublime. For those undaunted by the subject matter, his work is an experience not to be missed!"
— Lucy Taylor, author of Dancing with Demons and Safety of Unknown Cities

"If, as Umberto Eco said, 'Reading is immortality backward,' then reading Alessandro Manzetti's Shanti — The Sadist Heaven is seeing mortality into a future coming apart at seams and stitches as civilization metastasizes before your eyes. The hyperreality of Manzetti's nitty-gritty prose gives a kaleidoscopic fly's-eye view of the Hell that is South Paris 5 and his poetic metaphors burrow into your psyche to lay mind-blowing oospores. This is an epic of stunning imagination, a veritable pleasure palace of perversion where humanity and cancer are indistinguishable."
— Randy Chandler, author of Bad Juju, HELLz BELLz, Duet for the Devil, and co-editor of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror

"China Miéville’s epic world-building meets Charlee Jacob’s beautifully brutal prose. Shanti is a horrifying look into a post-apocalyptic Earth and just what humans will do to each other just to survive."
— David G. Barnett, Necro Publications Owner and Editor

Cover Reveal: THE PLACE OF BROKEN THINGS

Crystal Lake Publishing revealed just now the cover art (illustration by surreal painter Adrian Borda) of THE PLACE OF BROKEN THINGS, my new poetry collection written in collaboration with Linda D. Addison, coming out July 19th.

“There is no book of poetry quite like THE PLACE OF BROKEN THINGS! Linda Addison and Alessandro Manzetti spin dark magic! Highly recommended!”
— Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-WARS and GLIMPSE

Lucy Taylor about SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN

Lucy Taylor about my new novel in English SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN (Necro Publications, April 2019):
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"Manzetti guides us through a depraved and soul-scouring journey into the brutal and apocalyptic world of South Paris 5, where human flesh is the entree du jour and body packaging services a thriving business. Here desperate degenerates play Meat Roulette, a hideous game of chance in which losers get to choose which body part will be hacked off, and teenaged girls are recruited to service the scum of an experimental detention program in the baking emptiness of the Sonoran Desert. A master of extreme horror, Manzetti describes a world steeped in cruelty and perversion with a lyricism that often verges on the sublime. For those undaunted by the subject matter, his work is an experience not to be missed!"
— Lucy Taylor, award-winning author of 'The Safety of Unknown Cities' and 'Dancing with Demons'

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Monsters of Any Kind reviewed by Daphne Strasert for Horror Addicts

SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN Reviewed by Paula Limbaugh on Horror Novel Reviews

My new novel in English reviewed by Paula Limbaugh on Horror Novel Reviews.
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From the review: (…) this is written by a Bram Stoker award-winning author that really knows how to write! Manzetti is a true artist that can speak of the most vilest of acts and yet, there is a lyrical quality that makes it all sound so beautiful. His way with language keeps the words flowing and the pacing spot-on (…) The quality of writing and the ability to make sense of the depravity which occurs in keeping within the context of the story has me giving this book a 5-star rating. (…)

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Randy Chandler about 'SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN'

"If, as Umberto Eco said, 'Reading is immortality backwards,' then reading Alessandro Manzetti's SHANTI --THE SADIST HEAVEN is seeing mortality into a future coming apart at seams and stitches as civilization metastasizes before your eyes. The hyperreality of Manzetti's nitty-gritty prose gives a kaleidoscopic fly's-eye view of the Hell that is South Paris 5 and his poetic metaphors burrow into your psyche to lay mind-blowing oospores. This is an epic of stunning imagination, a veritable pleasure palace of perversion where humanity and cancer are indistinguishable."
--RANDY CHANDLER, author of Bad Juju, HELLz BELLz, Duet for the Devil, and co-editor of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror

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Released Today the Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR (English Edition)

Released today the English Edition of the Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR, based on the story 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves' by Poppy Z. Brite, adapted and written by me, illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli
The book is on sale at Amazon (Trade Paperback and Kindle). Buy your copy at Amazon.
A surreal journey in the arms of sensual and terrible goddess Kali, in a magical dark Calcutta, among living dead, ghosts, visions, memories, endless roads.
Cover art by Wendy Saber Core, 79 pages, illustrated in black and white. Interior samples (Illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli)

WAR Nominated for the SFPA Elgin Awards 2019

I'm happy to learn that, after the Bram Stoker Award and the Rhysling Award nominations, my dark poetry collection WAR, written in collaboration with with Marge Simon (Crystal Lake Publishing), has been nominated also for the SFPA Elgin Awards 2019.
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Review in German (on Die Büchergnomen) of my novel NARAKA

Review in German (on Die Buechergnomen ) of my novel 'Naraka - The Ultimate Human Breeding'.
(…) A new era of Splatterpunk!
What Manzetti has created here is hard to explain - you have to experience this book… these hells (…)
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