#Alessandro Manzetti

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The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the Final Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®, an award they’ve been presenting  in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/)

Works appearing on this Ballot are Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for Superior Achievement in their Category, e.g., Novel.  Congratulations to all those appearing on the Final Ballot.

THE 2022 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel • Iglesias, Gabino – The Devil Takes You Home (Mullholland Press) • Katsu, Alma – The Fervor (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) • Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reluctant Immortals (Saga Press) • Malerman, Josh – Daphne (Del Rey) • Ward, Catriona – Sundial (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel • Adams, Erin – Jackal (Bantam Books) • Cañas, Isabel – The Hacienda (Berkley) • Jones, KC – Black Tide (Tor Nightfire) • Nogle, Christi – Beulah (Cemetery Gates Media) • Wilkes, Ally – All the White Spaces (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel • Dawson, Delilah S. – Camp Scare (Delacorte Press) • Kraus, Daniel – They Stole Our Hearts (Henry Holt and Co.) • Malinenko, Ally – This Appearing House (Katherine Tegen Books) • Senf, Lora – The Clackity (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) • Stringfellow, Lisa – A Comb of Wishes (Quill Tree Books)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel • Aquilone, James (editor) – Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary (Moonstone Books) • Gailey, Sarah (author) and Bak, Pius (artist) – Eat the Rich (Boom! Studios) • Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist/author) – Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (Independent Legions Publishing) • Tynion IV, James (author) and Dell’Edera, Werther (artist) – Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Boom! Studios) • Young, Skottie (author) and Corona, Jorge (artist) – The Me You Love in the Dark (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel • Fraistat, Ann – What We Harvest (Delacorte Press) • Jackson, Tiffany D. – The Weight of Blood (Katherine Tegen Books) • Marshall, Kate Alice – These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) • Ottone, Robert P. – The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) • Schwab, V.E. – Gallant (Greenwillow Books) • Tirado, Vincent – Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction • Allred, Rebecca J. and White, Gordon B. – And in Her Smile, the World (Trepidatio Publishing) • Carmen, Christa – “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press) • Hightower, Laurel – Below (Ghoulish Books) • Katsu, Alma – The Wehrwolf (Amazon Original Stories) • Knight, EV – Three Days in the Pink Tower (Creature Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction • Dries, Aaron – “Nona Doesn't Dance” (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts) (IFWG Australia, IFWG International) • Gwilym, Douglas – “Poppy’s Poppy” (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6) • McCarthy, J.A.W.  – “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body” (A Woman Built by Man) (Cemetery Gates Media) • Taborska, Anna – “A Song for Barnaby Jones” (Zagava) • Taborska, Anna – “The Star” (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane) (Black Shuck Books) • Yardley, Mercedes M. – “Fracture” (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror) (Weird Little Worlds)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection • Ashe, Paula D. – We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Nictitating Books) • Joseph, RJ – Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted (The Seventh Terrace) • Khaw, Cassandra – Breakable Things (Undertow Publications) • Thomas, Richard – Spontaneous Human Combustion (Keylight Books) • Veres, Attila – The Black Maybe (Valancourt Books)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay • Cooper, Scott – The Pale Blue Eye (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group) • Derrickson, Scott and Cargill, C. Robert – The Black Phone (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures) • Duffer Brothers, The – Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures) • Garland, Alex - Men (DNA Films) • Goth, Mia and West, Ti – Pearl (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection • Bailey, Michael and Simon, Marge – Sifting the Ashes (Crystal Lake Publishing) • Lynch, Donna – Girls from the County (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – Crime Scene (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Saulson, Sumiko – The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines) • Sng, Christina – The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology • Datlow, Ellen – Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (Tor Nightfire) • Hartmann, Sadie and Saywers, Ashley – Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Ink) • Nogle, Christi and Becker, Willow – Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) • Ryan, Lindy – Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga (Black Spot Books) • Tantlinger, Sara – Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror (Strangehouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction • Cisco, Michael – Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (Palgrave Macmillan) • Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea – A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts (Citadel Press) • Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult (Quirk Books) • Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (Guide Dog Books) • Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Writing Poetry in the Dark (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction • Murray, Lee – “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press) • Pelayo, Cynthia – “This is Not a Poem” (Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press) • Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. – “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company) • Wood, L. Marie – “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World) • Wood, L. Marie, “The H Word: The Horror of Hair” (Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)

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Alessandro Manzetti e Paolo Di Orazio PERIFERNALIA 2023 Independent Legions Publishing

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The HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. IX Virtual Book Tour

The HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. IX Virtual Book Tour

Horror, Poetry Date Published: 11.07.2022 The Horror Writers Associations presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, featuring the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith, this year’s featured poets are Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn, and Naomi Simone Borwein, plus dozens of poems from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association.   This volume…

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Feeling Poetic? Here are 5 Horror Poetry Books I Love!

Feeling Poetic? Here are 5 Horror Poetry Books I Love!

I may be a day late to celebrate World Poetry Day, but better late than never. I love poetry, though. Poetry usually makes me think about an array of things, makes me feel, inspires or makes me contemplate something deeper than whatever is on the surface. It’s art in word form—subjective. My favorite poem of all time isn’t in the horror genre, but rather makes one think about choices … The Road…

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Traum Fiction: una novità in arrivo nel fantasy italiano

Traum Fiction: una novità in arrivo nel fantasy italiano

Ottime notizie per il Fantasy italiano. Ce ne parla direttamente Andrea Berneschi.

Moebius – Arzach

“Imagine more, imagine harder” Immagina di più, immagina più intensamente” Clive Barker

  Non so se ricordate: fino a circa dieci anni fa andava di moda sostenere che la letteratura di genere aveva già raggiunto il suo apice qualitativo, che stavamo vivendo un periodo di decadenza e che niente e…

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NEW REVIEW: Jack Bantry & Kit Power - Splatterpunk Forever (2018)

Next up on the DLS Reviews dissection table we have Jack Bantry and Kit Power’s third splatterpunk charity anthology ‘Splatterpunk Forever’ (2018).  Once again, expect nothing short of gut-pounding, gritty and grim splatterpunk from cover to cover…

https://www.dlsreviews.com/splatterpunk-forever.php

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Classic Monsters Unleashed will be published on July 12 via Black Spot Books and Crystal Lake Publishing. The 450-page horror anthology consists of 29 new stories that reimagine horror’s classic monsters.

Contributors include Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, F. Paul Wilson, Richard Christian Matheson, Dacre Stoker, Seanan McGuire, Lisa Morton, Owl Goingback, Maurice Broaddus, Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Mercedes M. Yardley, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Rena Mason, Monique Snyman, and more.

Edited by Weird Tales Magazine editor James Aquilone, the book will be available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book. It features an introduction by film historian Kim Newman and artwork by Mister Sam Shearon and Colton Worley.

Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West—they're all here, in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures.

Pre-order Classic Monsters Unleashed.

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Episode 4: (What's a Gyarados?) Show Notes:

You can listen to episode four on any major podcast provider HERE and on Apple Podcasts HERE.

This is a long one--we covered a lot of ground in episode four! And as Gabi mentioned at the beginning, we did a silly thing and recorded it in front of an open window. That resulted in about four brief moments where there's a weird, unpleasant reverb sound and we're awfully sorry about that. (We learned our lesson, though! It won't happen again.)

Books Discussed:

The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith

Simon Snow trilogy by Rainbow Rowell (Carry On, Wayward Son, and Any Way the Wind Blows)

Arsène Lupin Gentleman Thief by Maurice LeBlanc, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Whipping Girl by Julia Serano

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

The 2021 Rhysling Anthology edited by Alessandro Manzetti

They Made My Face by Sara Backer (https://www.silverblade.net/2020/08/they-made-my-face/)

Sealskin Reclaimed by Alison Bainbridge (link unfortunately unavailable; it was probably originally published in a print journal)

Kings and Queens of Narnia by Meep Matsushima (https://microverses.net/archives/285)

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

Other Books Mentioned:

Cherie Priest (title unmentioned, but the book Smack referred to is called Grave Reservations)

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Among Others by Jo Walton

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder

The Robber Girl by Franny Billingsley

Chime by Franny Billingsley

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman in the Roman World by Emma Southon

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor (cover below, since we mentioned how pretty it was during the unboxing)

The Beast Warrior by Nahoko Uehashi translated by Cathy Hirano

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

The Devourers by Indra Das

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

Lumberjanes Vol 7: A Bird’s Eye View by Shannon Watters (Author), Kat Leyh (Author), Noelle Stevenson (Creator), Grace Ellis (Creator), Brooke Allen (Creator), Maarta Laiho Carey Pietsch (Illustrator), Ayme Sotuyo (Illustrator)

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Giant Days by John Allison and Lissa Treiman

And finally, this is a gyarados:

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Weird Tales #364, edited by Jonathan Maberry, Weird Tales Inc., November 2020. Cover art by Lynne Hansen, info: weirdtales.com.

Evil space plants, lecherous dragons and the mysteries of the vampire haunt the pages of Weird Tales #364. Weird Tales continues it's 97 year commitment to bringing readers prophetic tales of dark fantasy, cosmic horror, supernatural revenge, and the sorcery of terror. Since 1923.

Contents: “Too Late Now” by Seanan McGuire “Ellende” by Gregory Frost “Hats” by Joe R. Lansdale “Lightning Lizzie” by Marie Whittaker   “Last Days” by Dacre Stoker and Leverett Butts “The Beguiled Grave” by Marguerite Reed   “The Last War” by Linda Addison (Poetry) “To the Marrow” by Rena Mason   “Feathers” by Tim Waggoner   “Trailer Park Nightmare” by Gabrielle Faust   “No One Survives the Beach” by Weston Ochse “The Good Wife” by Lee Murray   “The Canal” by Alessandro Manzetti (Poetry)

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Nominees announced for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards

The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards. The annual awards for horror/dark fiction include a “Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel” category.

Presented annually since 1987, the winners will be announced at StokerCon 2020 in Scarborough, England on April 18. The nominees in the graphic novel category are:

Bone Parish Vol. 2 (BOOM! Studios) by Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf

Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books) by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran

Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen (Image Comics) by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli

H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1 (Dark Horse Manga) by Gou Tanabe and Zack Davisson

Also of note, frequent comics writer Chuck Wendig’s novel Wanderers was nominated in the novel category. You can see the complete list of nominees across all categories here.

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Elgin Award Winners Announced — and Poetry Giveaway!

Elgin Award Winners Announced — and #PoetryGiveaway!

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) hosts the annual  Elgin Awards — named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin — which honor the best poetry books (49+ pages) and chapbooks (10–39 pages) of speculative poetry from the past two years.

The 2019 winners for book length collection are:

Winner: War: Dark Poems by Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018)

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It's here! The Horror Writer's Association Poetry Showcase Number 9. My poem, "Strike a Match" shares a table of contents with some of the most talented horror poets thw HWA has to offer. Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Showcase-Angela-Yuriko-Smith/dp/B0BJNDCGT3 Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BJP81ZDB Blurb: HWA Poetry Showcase Volume IX, edited by Angela Yuriko Smith The Horror Writers Association presents their ninth annual Poetry Showcase, sharing the best in never-before-published dark verse. Edited by Angela Yuriko Smith with judges Lee Murray, Maxwell I. Gold and Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, this year features the poetry of Stephanie M. Wytovich, Geneve Flynn and Naomi Simone Borwein along with other poems from Mary A. Turzillo, Christina Sng, Alessandro Manzetti, Victoria Nations, K. H. Vaughan and many more works of merit from the talented members of the Horror Writers Association. Cover artwork by Kyra Starr. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-aNZXrsTi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Classic Monsters Unleashed: Cover Reveal

Classic Monsters Unleashed: Cover Reveal

It’s cover reveal time! I hope you’re ready, because I’ve seen some teaser images and they were amazing, but this … I never expected to see a cover like this. It’s GORGEOUS! But before I show it to you, let me give you some background info on this highly-anticipated anthology by Crystal Lake Publishing. The Classic Monsters Unleashed anthology, edited by James Aquilone, has been revealing one…

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Weird Tales #364 Review

Lilyn covers Weird Tales #364 in today's #BookReview on Sci-Fi & Scary.

Featuring stories by Seanan McGuire, Dacre Stoker & Leverett Butts, Joe R. Lansdale, Marguerite Reed, Rena Mason, Tim Waggoner, Gabrielle Faust, Weston Ochse, Lee Murray, Marie Whittaker, and Gregory Frost, with dark poetry by Linda Addison and Alessandro Manzetti, Weird Tales #364 is an unthemed issue of horror stories ranging from flash to multi-page pieces. Weird Tales #364 | Edited by:…