The Shaman: And other shadows Read online

  blades and other fuels, double tanks.

  The window, the rotting buildings behind

  the sleeping cars cemetery

  waiting for souls, drivers.

  Ghost fingers run on the back

  on the curves of scars

  sparkling cracks

  they are the copper pipes of pleasure

  underground, underskin.

  It's still her, she wakes up

  whispering squeaky thoughts

  she is without armor

  She gets on her knees, waiting for my flesh

  between the voids and the cracks

  of her skeleton smile.

  She takes me by and drags me to the black bed

  she rides me, her orbits are lit: two blue holes

  two sprays of light, two survivors

  glimmers of outside.

  The flesh is forgotten, useless:

  the uterus subway, the generous glands

  the byzantine buttocks and the skin of mango

  stuff that I bought yesterday.

  Two hundred dollars, for endless nights

  for a black ring

  for that closed room

  narrow and immense

  locked up by an old welder.

  Other Books available in English

  Dark poems collection

  Venus Intervention with Corrine De Winter as co-author

  (Kipple Officina Libraria, July 2014)

  Short stories collection

  Dark Gates - Roads to Hell and Limbus with Paolo di Orazio as co-author

  (Kipple Officina Libraria, November 2014)

  Books available in Italian

  eBooks (available on Amazon)

  Novels:

  Naraka - L’inferno delle scimmie bianche (Naraka Trilogy #1, Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)

  Shanti - La città santa (Naraka Trilogy #2, , Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)

  Stories and short stories collection:

  Acrux Reloaded (Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2013)

  Parigi Sud 5 - Il quartiere dell’Apocalisse (Naraka World Serie #1, Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014)

  Limbus -Trilogia di Scarafaggi (Naraka World Serie #2, Amazon, 2014)

  Malanima - Storie di Lame e Presenze (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014)

  Mictlan - Doppio Inferno (Naraka World Serie #3, Amazon, 2014)

  I Giorni della Gallina Nera – L’Apocalisse a Roma (Naraka World Serie #4, Amazon, 2014)

  Vessel - Orrore in Terrasanta (Cannibal Crusade Serie #1, Amazon, 2014)

  Kiki - Sangue a Berlino Brandeburgo (Kiki Serie #1, Amazon, 2014)

  Weird West Blues - Storie di Zolfo e di Frontiera (coming out in Dicembre 2014, Amazon)

  Anthologies:

  Naraka - Kollection (contains the novels: Naraka e Shanti, Amazon, 2014)

  Red - Kollection (contains the stories/storie collection: Acrux, Limbus, Mictlan,Vessel, Amazon, 2014)

  Black - Kollection (contains the stories/storie collection: I Giorni della Gallina Nera, Kiki. Sangue a Berlino Brandeburgo, Verso il Monte Meru, Malanima, Ancora Arancione, Lo Sciamano, I Meridiani di Godot, L’uomo che ha visto il Mondo, Amazon, 2014)

  Apocalyptic - Kollection (contains all works, except: Venus Intervention, Weird West Blues and some stories from Parigi Sud 5 - Il Quartiere dell’Apocalisse and Malanima - Storie di Lame e Presenze, Amazon, 2014)

  Paperback (available on Amazon and CreateSpace)

  Novels:

  Naraka - L’inferno delle scimmie bianche (Naraka Trilogy #1, Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)

  Shanti - La città santa (Naraka Trilogy #2, , Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)

  Short stories collection:

  Ultimo Tropico - Tutti i Racconti 2013 - 2014 (except Weird West Blues, Amazon, 2014)

  Author’s Profile

  Alessandro Manzetti

  Horror, SF, weird fiction and dark poetry writer, editorial consultant and editor. As a writer, he published in Italian, using his name and the pseudonym of Caleb Battiago, two novels (Naraka, Shanti), three long stories (Mictlan, Vessel, Kiki ), five short stories collections (Malanima, Acrux, Parigi Sud 5, Limbus, I Giorni della Gallina Nera ), an interviews collection (Monster Masters) four anthologies (Naraka Kollection, Red Kollection, Black Kollection, Apocalyptic Kollection) and a dark poems collection (Uterus), as well as a lot of short stories published in magazine and anthologies. English publications: The Smaman and other shadows (Amazon, 2014), a horror/weird short stories collection, Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014) a dark poems collection with Corrine De Winter as co-author and the introduction by Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Dark Gates - Roads to Hell and Limbo (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014), a horror/weird/apocalyptic short stories collection with Paolo Di Orazio ad co-author and the introduction by Gene O’Neill, and stories and poems published in anthologies (including Bones III Anthology, James Ward Kirk Publications, 2014 that contains his story The Shaman) and in printed and online magazines (including The Horror Zine Magazine, Fall 2014).

  He managed the translation and editing service Probably King, and he collaborated with some Italian publishers (Gargoyle Books, Edizioni XII, Mezzotints eBooks, Kipple Officina Libraria) as editor in chief, marketing and foreign rights manager, consultant, editor, and with various web medias as a columnist. He is member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) and the British Fantasy Society. He live in Rome, Italy, with his doppelganger.

  Website (English section): http://www.alessandromanzetti.net/english