Alessandro Manzetti Livres

In a world ravaged by man's bottomless greed, the high seas roll with oil rigs dredging the last of nature's most remote resources, and the oceans bleed with tar and pollution. Their peaceful lives disturbed by man's plunder, the mighty kraken rise from the depths to defend their homes and attack the oil ships-swallowing filth and spreading carnage. But the captain of the kraken-fighting ship, Inferno, is not the kind of man to fear this ocean monster. In fact, he might not even fear death at all-because once a man has lost the thing he once lived for, there is nothing left in him but heartbreak... and the deepest, coldest need for revenge.In this tale of lost love, man's destructive nature meets nature's most destructive force. For there are dark promises in the sweet songs of the mermaids... and for a man to satisfy a desire for vengeance, it may first be necessary to surrender his soul.

A Dark Poetry collection from the Bram Stoker Award-winning poet that brought you Eden Underground.

The new dark poetry collection by Two-Time Bram Stoker Award Winner Alessandro Manzetti. The line between love and obsession is thin-thinner when love looks like madness, and perhaps thinnest when the object of that love is no longer living. These dark and lyrical poems detail the desire and descent of a man who falls in love with the impossible: the ghost of the great coloratura soprano, Maria Callas. Once dubbed the 'ultimate diva', the tumult of this tragic beauty beckons to him from the underworld, and in shades of exquisite darkness she lures him deeper into sweet insanity and toward his own gorgeous destruction. Greek islands, Roman ruins, Parisian apartments. A quiet room in the chaos of war-ravaged Europe. On the stage, through the body, in the body that is a stage-these settings are the backdrop of this cursed romance. Through drama, theatre, the ache of broken genius and the strength of timeless art, the poems in this collection celebrate the memory of a beloved icon, and serenade the victims of doomed love. Cover art by Pierluigi Abbondanza, interior illustrations by Barbara Monacelli

Semipalatinsk Polygon, 1965. The Soviets run the Chagan Test, their first experiment in underground nuclear detonation. It's a cover. Deep beneath the earth, in a bunker, they are bio-engineering soldiers to adapt to the extreme conditions of a thermonuclear war. But their human subjects get out of control, and the project's survivors are transferred to a new base hidden at the site of the proposed Chernobyl nuclear plant. Professor Petrov is one such survivor. Marked by the horrors he has witnessed, and obsessed with Boni, a dangerous Muse he has created in the lab, the scientist slides into an abyss of alcoholism and madness. Meanwhile, in the zone outside Chernobyl, strange sightings and horrific murders fuel a twenty-year manhunt, culminating in a surprising and dramatic showdown. 2019 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Novella