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Splatter Presenta: B.I.H.F.F. (Best Italian Horror Flash Fiction): Racconti e Fumetti Horror
Antologia di racconti e fumetti horror, a cura di Alessandro Manzetti e Paolo Di Orazio.
Racconti: ‘Mancanza’ di Poppy Z. Brite; ‘La Ragazza Larva nella Prigione delle Donne Morte’ di Edward Lee; ‘Attraverso le Veneziane’ di Charlee Jacob; ‘L’Ultimo Desiderio’ di Poppy Z. Brite; ‘Due Teste’ di Caleb Battiago; ‘L’Insaccato’ di Paolo Di Orazio; ‘La Ragazza dall’Occhio di Vetro’ di Stefano Fantelli; ‘Tre Secondi’ di Nicola Lombardi; ‘Basta che non li fai entrare’ di Luigi Musolino; ‘Il Cacasuore’ di Daniele Bonfanti; ‘Non si Accettano Fumetti dagli Sconosciuti’ di Giuliano Conconi; ‘Rosy & Jack Spaccalegna’ di Davide Camparsi; ‘Miseri Resti Sepolti’ di Miriam Palombi; ‘Una Moglie Perfetta’ di Serena Aronica; ‘Black Market Music’ di Vito Ricco.
Fumetti: ‘Io Sono la Forca’ (da Splatter Magazine #4 - Maggio 2014; ‘Metajo Orlando’ (da Splatter Magazine #5 - Luglio 2014); ‘Selfie Service’ (da Splatter Magazine #6 - Ottobre 2014)
Illustrazione di copertina di Vincent Chong.
Progetto realizzato in collaborazione con il Magazine Splatter e con il Chapter Italy delle Horror Writers Association
Racconti: ‘Mancanza’ di Poppy Z. Brite; ‘La Ragazza Larva nella Prigione delle Donne Morte’ di Edward Lee; ‘Attraverso le Veneziane’ di Charlee Jacob; ‘L’Ultimo Desiderio’ di Poppy Z. Brite; ‘Due Teste’ di Caleb Battiago; ‘L’Insaccato’ di Paolo Di Orazio; ‘La Ragazza dall’Occhio di Vetro’ di Stefano Fantelli; ‘Tre Secondi’ di Nicola Lombardi; ‘Basta che non li fai entrare’ di Luigi Musolino; ‘Il Cacasuore’ di Daniele Bonfanti; ‘Non si Accettano Fumetti dagli Sconosciuti’ di Giuliano Conconi; ‘Rosy & Jack Spaccalegna’ di Davide Camparsi; ‘Miseri Resti Sepolti’ di Miriam Palombi; ‘Una Moglie Perfetta’ di Serena Aronica; ‘Black Market Music’ di Vito Ricco.
Fumetti: ‘Io Sono la Forca’ (da Splatter Magazine #4 - Maggio 2014; ‘Metajo Orlando’ (da Splatter Magazine #5 - Luglio 2014); ‘Selfie Service’ (da Splatter Magazine #6 - Ottobre 2014)
Illustrazione di copertina di Vincent Chong.
Progetto realizzato in collaborazione con il Magazine Splatter e con il Chapter Italy delle Horror Writers Association
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 27, 2017
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About the author
Alessandro Manzetti
119 books86 followersAlessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayst of horror fiction and dark poetry whose 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.
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), The Garden of Delight (2017), The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (2016, with Paolo Di Orazio), and The Massacre of the Mermaids (2015), 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), and the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020) and The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021), and the 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) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti)
His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Polish and Russian magazines, such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing's Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as Splatterpunk Forever, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Bones III, 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, Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Tales of the Lost Vol. 3, Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience From the Pandemic, Sorrow and many others
He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti)
Awards and Nominations:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2021 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2015 winner
• SFPA Elgin Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 three-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2018 nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2017 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2016 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2014 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2019 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2018 nominee
• Rhysling Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 nominee
• Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 nominee
• This is Horror Awards 2017 nominee
• HWA Specialty Press Awards 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press)
Furthermore, he received honorable mentions (for stories and poems) in Ellen Datlow's 'The Best Horror of the Year' Vol. 7-8-9-10-12-13
He is the CEO & Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of 'Molotov Magazine' (in Italian), HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. In 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair.
He lives in Trieste, Italy
website: www.battiago.com
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), The Garden of Delight (2017), The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (2016, with Paolo Di Orazio), and The Massacre of the Mermaids (2015), 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), and the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020) and The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021), and the 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) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti)
His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Polish and Russian magazines, such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing's Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as Splatterpunk Forever, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Classic Monsters Unleashed, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Bones III, 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, Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Tales of the Lost Vol. 3, Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience From the Pandemic, Sorrow and many others
He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester) and Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti)
Awards and Nominations:
• Bram Stoker Awards 2021 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2015 winner
• SFPA Elgin Awards 2019 winner
• Bram Stoker Awards 2019 three-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2018 nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2017 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2016 two-time nominee
• Bram Stoker Awards 2014 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2019 nominee
• Splatterpunk Awards 2018 nominee
• Rhysling Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 nominee
• Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 nominee
• This is Horror Awards 2017 nominee
• HWA Specialty Press Awards 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press)
Furthermore, he received honorable mentions (for stories and poems) in Ellen Datlow's 'The Best Horror of the Year' Vol. 7-8-9-10-12-13
He is the CEO & Founder of Independent Legions Publishing, editor of 'Molotov Magazine' (in Italian), HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member. In 2021 he served the Science Fiction Poetry Association as the Rhysling Award Chair.
He lives in Trieste, Italy
website: www.battiago.com
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March 13, 2017
Il meglio dell'horror italiani, corredato dai re dell'extreme horror americano, brividi tricolori che si mescolano a quelli a stelle e strisce: una raccolta di racconti horror imprescindibile per chi vuole leggere solo il meglio!!!
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