Manzetti, Alessandro

Awards:

The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2021

The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2019

Independent Legions Press, Specialty Press Award, 2017

Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2015

Nominations:

Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2022

Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2020

Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2020

Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2019

The Keeper of Chernobyl (Omnium Gatherum), Long Fiction, 2019

War (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2018

The Beauty of Death Vol. 2: Death by Water (Independent Legions Publishing), Anthology, 2017

No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publishing), Poetry Collection, 2017

The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing), Anthology, 2016

Sacrificial Nights (Kipple Officina Libraria), Poetry Collection, 2016

Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria), Poetry Collection, 2014

BIO: Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a multiple time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, including novels, short and long fiction, poetry, essays, graphic novels and collections.
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English publications include his novels ‘Shanti – The Sadist Heaven (2019) and ‘Naraka – The Ultimate Human Breeding’ (2018), the novella ‘The Keeper of Chernobyl’ (2019), the collections ‘The Radioactive Bride’ (2020) and ‘The Garden of Delight’ (2017) the poetry collections ‘Dancing with Maria’s Ghost’ (2021), ‘Whitechapel Rhapsody’ (2020), ‘The Place of Broken Things’ (2019, with Linda D. Addison), ‘War’ (2018, with Marge Simon), ‘No Mercy’ (2017), ‘Sacrificial Nights’ (2016, with Bruce Boston) ‘Eden Underground’ (2015), ‘Venus Intervention’ (2014, with Corrine de Winter), the graphic novels ‘Kraken Inferno’ (2022), ‘The Inhabitant of the Lake’ (2021), ‘Calcutta Horror’ (2019), ‘Her Life Matters’ (2020), and the essay/guide ‘150 Exquisite Horror Books’ (2021).
He edited the anthologies ‘The Beauty of Death’ (2016), ‘The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 – Death by Water’ (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester), ‘Monsters of Any Kind’ (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) and ‘2021 Rhysling Anthology’ (2021)
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His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Canadian, Russian and Polish magazines such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time Magazine, Darker Magazine, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing’s Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as ‘The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13’, ‘Classic Monsters Unleashed’, ‘Splatterpunk Forever’, ‘Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6’,  ‘The Big Book of Blasphemy’, ‘Midnight Under the Big Top’, ‘Rhysling Anthology’ (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), ‘HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4’, ‘The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2’, ‘World of Light and Darkness’, ‘One of Us’ and many others.