The Radioactive Bride by Alessandro Manzetti

Poisoned Uxor 77 radioactive meteor fucked Hearth with a big Kaboom! changing the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet. No more animal protein, no more moral values or conscience, weird and obscene mutations. The primordial spirit of cannibalism rises again from its invisible grave, walking hand in hand with old friends: Depravity and Sadism, and no one is safe anymore.

Everyone is subject to a single watchword: survival at all costs. Yeah, you heard me, the ‘Radioactive Bride’ will marry you, dear future mankind, giving you a taste of her plutonium milk, turning you into exquisite prey or ravenous perpetrator.

This is a sort of diary of these days told through the lives of a few characters: new kind of freaks, half man/half worm, captured to become circus attractions; synthetic serial killers built-in labs; two-headed prostitutes offering special services to their clients; landfills with fights between women on next-gen drugs and mutated big rats; processions of new feminists who hunt for human testicles; the show of a fat lady offering viewers a succulent reason to come back (small pieces of her giant body); rich collectors of human organs; innovative restaurants and hyper-extreme brothels where pimps and celebrated chefs prepare the daily menu for their cannibal and depraved customers; the new slums of Paris, Rome and Berlin ruled by criminals; a shemale Pope with her infamous court, and a pedophile Governor watching excited, his aquariums of biomechanical, heretic creatures inside the Red Area of the New Wall.

So, strap on your seatbelt, move past moral, mercy and standard food, and get ready to be ejected at high speed towards the New World waiting for you.

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Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a Bram Stoker Award-winning (and 10-time nominee) author, editor, and translator of horror fiction and dark poetry whose work has been published extensively in Italian, 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 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 novel Calcutta Horror (2019)
Forthcoming books in English: Naraka – Limited Edition (Novel, Necro Publications, April 2020), New Sodom (Novel, Necro Publications, 2020).

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, and UK magazines, such as Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time, Weird Tales, The Horror Zine, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing’s Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as Splatterpunk Forever, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4 and 5, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Bones III, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Mar Dulce, I Sogni del Diavolo, Danze Eretiche Vol. 2, Il Buio Dentro, Sorrow, Midnight Under the Big Top.

Awards and Nominations:
* 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 nominee
* Elgin Awards 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 nominee
* This Is Horror Awards 2017 nominee
* HWA Specialty Press Award 2017 winner (as CEO of Independent Legions Press)

Furthermore, he received 20 Honorable Mentions (for stories and poems) in Ellen Datlow’s ‘The Best Horror of the Year’ Vol. 7-8-9-10

He has translated works by Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymon, Poppy Z. Brite, Edward Lee, Graham Masterton, Gary Braunbeck, Gene O’Neill, Lisa Morton, Lucy Snyder, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe.
He is the Founder & CEO of Independent Legions Publishing, an HWA Active member and a former HWA Board of Trustees member.

Website: www.battiago.com

Necro Publications has been the leader in modern hardcore horror since 1993. Its mission is to constantly push the envelop and the reader with modern adult genre fiction. Both companies have received numerous Bram Stoker Award finalist honors and won best novel of 2005 for Charlee Jacob’s DREAD IN THE BEAST. Visit Necro Publishing / Bedlam Press online at: www.necropublications.com.

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