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Dal tre volte vincitore del Bram Stoker Award, una novella dark eretica con ambientazione storica (XV Secolo).Agosto 1429, la guerra dei Cent'anni tra Francia e Inghilterra infuria. L'esercito francese, col quarto corpo d'armata guidato da Giovanna d'Arco e Gilles de Rais, ha appena affrontato l'esercito anglo-borgognone presso Montépilloy, con un nulla di fatto. Prima di rientrare a Crépy, con le truppe nemiche in ritirata verso Parigi, si accende uno scontro nei boschi a est della barricata inglese. Una battaglia segreta che nessuno ha mai raccontato, durante la quale, con la notte in agguato, si rivelerà la reale natura dei poteri soprannaturali della Pulzella d'Orleans, della sua nemesi e l'innominabile segreto dell'Ampolla Blasfema, custodito nell'apocrifo Vangelo di Eva. Estasi d'Inferno e Paradiso.

A guide to some of the best horror and supernatural books, as recommended by several of the biggest names in the industry.Compiled and edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti, this is a guide to the best 150 books of modern horror, weird, and dark fantasy fiction (single author novels, novellas, and collections of short stories) published between 1986 and 2020. This captivating book includes publication details, reading notes and ratings for each work, as well as top-ten lists contributed by well-known writers, editors, critics, and essayists, including Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp, Ellen Datlow, Stephen Jones, Linda D. Addison, Jack Bantry, David Barnett, Mort Castle, Randy Chandler, Brian Evenson, Owl Goingback, Eric J. Guignard, Paula Guran, Grady Hendrix, Kate Jonez, S.T. Joshi, Edward Lee, RC Matheson, Lisa Morton, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Craig Spector, Angela Yuriko Smith, Dacre Stoker, and Lucy Taylor. This guide is an essential resource for readers and fans of 20th century horror and supernatural books, in a modern and easy-to-read format, to discover the best books of the horror genre. Come dive into 150 books of must-read horror.

Ambientato nel 1865, tra Romania e Bulgaria, il romanzo racconta la storia di Imre, di sua moglie Mimi e la figlia Lenore, una famiglia di zingari. Imre, padre e marito devoto, è un mezzo-zingaro, e commercia cavalli. I tre stanno rientrando in Romania per fare visita alla madre di Mimi, Anyeta, che si trova sul letto di morte. Imre, il capofamiglia, nasconde però un segreto: Anyeta aveva cercato di sedurlo, anni prima, in cambio di un prestito economico che le aveva chiesto. Anyeta è una strega, dotata di tremendi poteri, e sia la figlia che la comunità zingara ne sono spaventati. Eppure Mimi ritiene necessario farle visita un'ultima volta e approntare la cerimonia funebre. Non riescono, però, ad arrivare in tempo in Romania, Anyeta è già morta. Ma il suo spirito perverso vive ancora, e ha un unico obiettivo: trovare un corpo giovane di cui impossessarsi per continuare la sua esistenza terrena. Lenore, la giovane e bella figlia di Imre, è il soggetto ideale. Comincia così un viaggio da incubo, con lo spirito della megera che aleggia continuamente sulla famiglia, prima impossessandosi della povera Mimi tramite un macabro talismano zingaro - la mano del morto.

Look in my eyes. My bronze skin reflects the flames of the battles.I feed on bullets and shrapnel.I have trenches instead of veins and a bombardier's whirring plays my favorite symphony inside my big head. This is my story, with some of my best camouflages and disguises, and you should expect your peace plans to fail. Because that's what I do for a living.Look at my million golden teeth necklace. Ring any bells? Maybe you're too young. I probably should have mentioned the fireworks over the Baghdad night sky, my new friend, or the live broadcast of two great skyscrapers disintegrating. You know what I'm talking about, right? So, you can call me by one of my many names: Great General, Lock-box of the Powerful, Red Rain, Lord of Steel or, more simply, WAR.I appear as strife of many kinds, from Stalingrad to Scotland. Africa to Afghanistan, the civil war of Italy and the War Between the States, ghostly wars, drug wars, the battle of the sexes, World Wars I, II and visions of a holocaust yet to come. It's all herein and more, with poems both collaborative and individual.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Bram Stoker Award® winners Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti use their unique voices to create a dark, surrealistic poetry collection exploring the many ways shattered bodies, minds, and souls endure. They created poems of visionary imagery encompassing death, gods, goddesses and shadowy, Kafkaesque futures by inspiring each other, along with inspiration from others (Allen Ginsberg, Pablo Neruda, Phillis Wheatley, etc.).Construction of The Place started with the first bitten apple dropped in the Garden. The foundation defined by the crushed, forgotten, and rejected. Filled with timeless space, its walls weep with the blood of brutality, the tears of the innocent, and predatory desire. Enter and let it whisper dark secrets to you.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.Interview with the poets:What makes this poetry collection so special?Alessandro: Collaborations are the salt of poetry, can create special, unique blends and flavours. This book is exquisite, in that way.Linda: Collaborations can create remarkable work, whether it's poetry or fiction. Alessandro and I each did a third on our own and then a third together. This book was written with us in completely different time zones (Arizona & Italy), without ego and is the best poetry I've created so far.Tell us more about the theme of this book.Linda: There was no hard rules, we agreed to riff off any of the words in the title: Place; Broken; Thing(s). The real magic is how the book flowed from us, as we allowed our imagination freedom to play, trusting the dark, surrealistic tales told would fit; and they did!Alessandro: Imagine a collage of different places, connected by invisible wires. We play the role of the explorers of that elusive, borderlands world.Why should readers give this book or your work a try?Linda: Our book has unique songs to offer, something we couldn't recreate separately. It stands alone with any work we do in the future because even the poems I wrote by myself were influenced by working in our shared arena in undefinable ways.Alessandro: If you're a curious traveler, ready to walk with us along a trail without markers, this is a good book for you.