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Disponibile da oggi la Graphic Novel CALCUTTA HORROR

Finalmente disponibile CALCUTTA HORROR (Independent Legions), tratta dal celebre racconto Calcutta, Signora delle Impudenze di Poppy Z. Brite, sceneggiata da me e illustrata da Stefano Cardoselli
Il libro è acquistabile sullo Store Independent Legions

Released the Italian 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 the artist Stefano Cardoselli. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core. The English edition of the book will be released in about two weeks!

CROTA - The Graphic Novel - Live on Kickstarter

Owl Goingback's CROTA - The Graphic Novel - Live on Kickstarter
Independent Legions raising funds to create an original graphic novel based on the Bram Stoker Award winning novel by Cherokee/Choctaw author Owl Goingback, an action-packed dark fantasy/horror blockbuster rooted in Native American folklore and wisdom, and featuring the by-now cult, eponymous monster Crota.  This amazing book will be written by Goingback himself together with me, and drawn and fully hand-colored by artist Stefano Cardoselli (Heavy Metal, 2000AD). This will be a limited, numbered first edition, and the campaign includes unique perks -- so don’t miss it!
Support the project on Kickstarter

My new novel SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN Available at Amazon

My new novel SHANTI - THE SADIST HEAVEN (Necro Publication) is available at Amazon.
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. 

Synopsis: The orphan sisters, Justine and Juliette, are entrusted to the care of the Sainte Marie College headed by Madame Desroches, a transgender matron of the infamous and dystopian neighborhood Paris South 5, the Hyper-Bronx of the French capital. The two sisters will become prey and predators of a brutal and hopeless world, where everybody wants to become a citizen of the mythical Shanti, the Holy City. Shanti is an artificial paradise, the last chance of a decent living following the apocalypse due to the radioactive meteor Uxor77. Now the Earth is characterized only by the annihilation of animal protein, the spread of cannibalism and brutal sexual deviances.
The destinies of the two girls take shape in an apocalyptic Paris, with its red-light districts and the fashionable restaurants of human flesh, and then in the desert, among the subhuman menageries of the barren, desperate Mesoamerican Republic.
Flamingo is a wicked creature that has survived the time to become the queen of Shanti, the Eldorado of Sex, whose heretic and sadist court, pulls the strings of everybody’s fate. But the New France’s criminal underworld as well as a powerful and cruel organization that control technology, the world markets of new synthetic drugs and the clandestine trade in human flesh, want to get their hands on the Holy City.
Justine and Juliette become involved in different games of power; one will become predator, the other prey, always looking for faith, in spite of everything. What fate awaits them? Shanti is written as an homage to the famed sisters of the Marquis de Sade’s infamous novel Justine, as a futurization of that famous, heretic masterpiece.

Amazon: Trade Paperback Edition
Amazon: Kindle Edition

Crota Graphic Novel - Video Teaser (Kickstarter Project)

Video Teaser. Coming soon on Kickstarter: CROTA Graphic Novel (colour illustrations), based on the novel by Owl Goingback, written and adapted by me and illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli.
Kickstarter campaign will start next week...

CALCUTTA HORROR Graphic Novel - Video Trailer

CALCUTTA HORROR Graphic Novel (English Edition) Video Trailer.
Graphic Novel based on the amazing story 'Calcutta, Lord of Nerves' by Poppy Z. Brite. Adapted and written by me, Illustrated by Stefano Cardoselli. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.
Coming in a few days from Independent Legions.

L'edizione italiana dell'opera è disponibile e acquistabile sullo Store Independent Legions

SORROW Anthology available at Amazon

Available at Amazon SORROW Anthology, edited by James Ward Kirk, containing my new story 'Trash Vortex 696', translated into English by Daniele Bonfanti, and other works by friends Marge Simon, Bruce Boston and many others.
Buy your copy (printed and digital) at Amazon

NARAKA reviewed by Horror Bound

My novel NARAKA - The Ultimate Human Breeding, reviewed by Horror Bound.net.
From the review: 
(…) This book was brutal. I’ve read Laymon and Ketchum and Lee and this book was as brutal if not more so than any other the stuff those guys have written. Violent, bloody, disturbing; pick any of those words that you would use to describe any of the splatter-punk horror writers and this book is that, times a million. (…)  There are many characters and many points of view but the story that flows through the entire novel is the tale of Kiki, a former prostitute turned assassin. She is by far the most interesting character who is able to escape the prison and get back to earth to assassinate the man who helped land her in the prison in the first place. If there is a theme in running through the interconnected stories running through this novel it is the theme of revenge.For all of the hardcore horror violence and blood in this book, the novel is very well written. Once the splatter punk facade is stripped away, what is left is a story with an incredibly well developed protagonist and equally developed antagonist and secondary characters that the reader cares about as much as the main characters.  (…)  There are also very few novels who can claim a setting to be an important character in the story, but Naraka is one of the ones that can. The prison itself is very much a character and possibly the most evil of all the antagonists in the novel. The protagonist and pretty much every character act or react based on the prison looming somewhere above them.

Read the full review at Horror Bound.net
Buy the book at Amazon

Preordinabile a prezzo speciale il nuovo romanzo NUOVA SODOMA - La Resurrezione del Re Osceno

Preordinabile da oggi, a prezzo speciale (fino al 15 Aprile), sullo store Independent Legions, il mio nuovo romanzo NUOVA SODOMA - La Resurrezione del Re Osceno, in uscita a Giugno 2019.
I diritti in lingua inglese del romanzo sono già stati acquistati dall'editore statunitense Necro Publications, leader mondiale nel genere hardcore horror; l'opera sarà pubblicata in inglese nel secondo quadrimestre del 2020 col titolo di 'New Sodom'
Preordina la tua copia sullo store Independent Legions

Sinossi: Il nuovo romanzo del premio Bram Stoker Award Caleb Battiago, primo titolo di una nuova trilogia sadiana, con titoli indipendenti e autoconclusivi.
2114, Parigi Sud 5. Un folle seguace sadiano fa disseppellire ciò che resta del Marchese De Sade nel cimitero di Charenton, e grazie a nuove tecnologie di clonazione accelerata tenta di portare di nuovo in vita, dopo 300 anni, il Re Osceno, per costringerlo, grazie un doloroso collare a impulsi, a riscrivere il romanzo perduto 'Le Giornate di Florbelle' (Les Journées de Florbelle ou la Nature dévoilée) dato alle fiamme dal figlio dopo la sua morte nel 1814. Il Marchese scriverà di nuovo l'opera, nel suo stile originale, ma contaminandola sempre più con la conoscenza e sperimentazione delle avanzate tecnologie del ventiduesimo secolo, che gli apriranno nuove, impensabili, oscene frontiere.
Il romanzo, oltre alla narrazione della storia, conterrà alcuni estratti dell'opera 'Le Giornate di Florbelle' riscritta dal Marchese nella fiction, ma ricostruita e interpretata da Caleb Battiago grazie all'unico diario sopravvissuto alla distruzione dell'opera, che contiene appunti su trama e personaggi principali del romanzo, che nelle intenzioni dell'autore avrebbe dovuto sostituire, e ampliare, il celebre 'Le 120 Giornate di Sodoma', manoscritto datato 1785 ma considerato perduto all'epoca della scrittura delle 'Giornate di Florbelle'

Uscita: Giugno 2019 - Edizione Standard
Collana: Necros
Lingua: Italiano - 250 pagine
Illustrazione di copertina di Ben Baldwin
Illustrazioni interne di Stefano Cardoselli
Preordinabile a prezzo speciale fino al 15 Aprile 2019

Preorder your copy of the new novel SHANTI

You can preorder my new novel SHANTI at Necro Publications Store
SHANTI- THE SADIST HEAVEN - April 2019 - Necro Publications.

China Miéville’s epic world building meets Charlee Jacob’s beautifully brutal prose. Shanti is a horrifying look into the post-apocalyptic Earth and just what humans will do to each just to survive.

The orphan sisters, Justine and Juliette, are entrusted to the care of the Sainte Marie College headed by Madame Desroches, a transgender matron of the infamous and dystopian neighborhood Paris South 5, the Hyper-Bronx of the French capital. The two sisters will become prey and predators of a brutal and hopeless world, where everybody wants to become a citizen of the mythical Shanti, the Holy City. Shanti is an artificial paradise, the last chance of a decent living following the apocalypse due to the radioactive meteor Uxor77. Now the Earth is characterized only by the annihilation of animal protein, the spread of cannibalism and brutal sexual deviances.
The destinies of the two girls take shape in an apocalyptic Paris, with its red-light districts and the fashionable restaurants of human flesh, and then in the desert, among the subhuman menageries of the barren, desperate Mesoamerican Republic.
Flamingo is a wicked creature that has survived the time to become the queen of Shanti, the Eldorado of Sex, whose heretic and sadist court, pulls the strings of everybody’s fate. But the New France’s criminal underworld as well as a powerful and cruel organization that control technology, the world markets of new synthetic drugs and the clandestine trade in human flesh, want to get their hands on the Holy City.
Justine and Juliette become involved in different games of power; one will become predator, the other prey, always looking for faith, in spite of everything. What fate awaits them? Shanti is written as an homage to the famed sisters of the Marquis de Sade’s infamous novel Justine, as a futurization of that famous, heretic masterpiece.​ preorder

Karen Bovenmyer reads 'The Green Lady' from WAR collection

Karen Bovenmyer reads the poem 'The Green Lady' by Marge Simon and me, from WAR collection (Crystal Lake Publishing, June 2018). Buy the book at Amazon.