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The Beauty of Death
The Beauty of Death è un’antologia in lingua inglese di prossima pubblicazione (fine giugno 2016), curata da Alessandro Manzetti, con cover art di George Cotronis e editing in lingua inglese di cura di Jodi Renee Lester.
Il volume, di circa 600 pagine, conterrà racconti di alcuni dei più importanti autori dell’horror contemporaneo, internazionali e italiani, e sarà pubblicato in formato ebook da Independent Legions.
Qui di seguito, la lista dei racconti che saranno pubblicati.
The Beauty of Death is the title of a new anthology, soon to be published at the end of June 2016, edited by Alessandro Manzetti and cover art by George Cotronis.
The volume, in english (editing by Jodi Renee Lester) and in digital version by Independent Legions, will contain many short stories by some of the most known contemporary horror writers. Here the list of contents:
Blue Rose by Peter Straub (ristampa)
Above the World by Ramsey Campbell (ristampa)
In the Garden by Lisa Morton (racconto inedito)
Bleeding Rainbows by Shane McKenzie (ristampa)
Finding Water to Catch Fire by Linda Addison (racconto inedito)
Mulholland Moonshine by John Palisano (racconto inedito)
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite (ristampa)
This is how we learn by John Skipp (racconto inedito)
White Trash Gothic by Edward Lee (estratto del nuovo romanzo dell’autore, inedito)
12 by Gene O’Neill (racconto inedito)
Metamorphic Apotheosis by Rena Mason (racconto inedito)
Breaking Up by Monica O’Rourke (racconto inedito)
The Dark River in His Flesh by Maria Alexander (ristampa)
Fathomless Tides by Tim Waggoner (racconto inedito)
Every Ghost Story Is A Ghost Story by Nick Mamatas (racconto inedito)
Cold Finale by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon (racconto inedito)
Gold by James Door (racconto inedito)
Season’s End by Colleen Anderson (racconto inedito)
Alley Oops by Del Howison (ristampa)
The Bitches of Madison County by John F.D. Taff (racconto inedito)
No place like home by JG Faherty (racconto inedito)
Rotten Apples by John Claude Smith (racconto inedito)
In Frigore Veritas by K Trap Jones (racconto inedito)
Dearly Beloved by Ron Breznay (racconto inedito)
How to make love and not turn to stone by Daniel Braun (racconto inedito)
Candy by Paolo Di Orazio (ristampa)
Contractions by Kevin David Anderson (racconto inedito)
Building Comdemned by Adrian Ludens (racconto inedito)
Professor Aligi’s Puppets by Nicola Lombardi (racconto inedito)
By the River She Wakes by Erinn Kemper (racconto inedito)
The Office by Kevin Lucia (racconto inedito)
The Carp-Faced boy by Thersa Matsuura (racconto inedito)
The Captain by Stefano Fantelli (racconto inedito)
Blacker Against the Deep Dark by Alexander Zelenyj (racconto inedito)
Larrie’s Tapes by Luigi Musolino (racconto inedito)
Game by Daniele Bonfanti (racconto inedito)
The I of the Beholder by Kathryn Ptacek (racconto inedito)
Vestige by Annie Neugebauer (racconto inedito)
Kozmic Blues by Alessandro Manzetti (ristampa)
The Lady with the Stick by Simonetta Santamaria (racconto inedito)
Black-Eyed Susan by Mike Lester (racconto inedito).
Torture Sottili
Altra importante uscita per gli appassionati italiani di horror e weird: si tratta di Torture Sottili (The Gentling Box), romanzo di esordio della scrittrice statunitense Lisa Mannetti, vincitore del Bram Stoker Award.
La sua Novella “The Box Jumper”, con protagonista Harry Houdini, ha vinto inoltre il This Is Horror Award 2015 nella categoria “Novella of the Year”.
Lisa Mannetti vive a New York in una vecchia casa di cento anni con due gatti neri gemelli, di nome Harry Houdini e Theo.
“All the desolation in the world sweeps like a night wind howlingthrough the vast emptiness that is our being.”

Her Novella “The Box Jumper”, with Harry Houdini as main character, won theThis Is Horror Award 2015 in the category “Novella of the Year”.
Lisa Mannetti lives in New York in an old house with two twin cats, Harry Houdini and Theo.