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Nomination for horror comic ‘Kraken Inferno’

Chris Well

In this tale of lost love, man’s destructive nature meets nature’s most destructive force.

The horror comic book collection Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt has been nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. 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.

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About Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt: 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.

Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt
by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli
Independent Legions
Categories: Horror Graphic Novels, Fantasy Graphic Novels

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About Alessandro Manzetti

Alessandro Manzetti (Rome, Italy) is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, scriptwriter and essayist of horror fiction and dark poetry. His work has been published extensively (more than 40 books) in Italian and English, 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) and The Garden of Delight (2017) the poetry collections Dancing with Maria’s Ghost (2021), Whitechapel Rhapsody (2020), 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), the graphic novels Calcutta Horror (2019), Her Life Matters (2020), The Inhabitant of the Lake (2021), and the essay/guide 150 Exquisite Horror Books (2021).

He edited the anthologies The Beauty of Death (2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 - Death by Water (2017, with Jodi Renee Lester), Monsters of Any Kind (2018, with Daniele Bonfanti) and 2021 Rhysling Anthology (2021).

His stories and poems have appeared in Italian, USA, UK, Australian, Canadian, Russian and Polish magazines such as Weird Tales Magazine, Dark Moon Digest, Splatterpunk Zine, Disturbed Digest, Space and Time Magazine, Darker Magazine, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, Illumen, Devolution Z, Hinnom, Recompose, Polu Texni, Nothing’s Sacred, Okolica Strachu, and anthologies such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13, Splatterpunk Forever, Best Hardcore Horror of the Year Vol. 2, 4, 5, 6, Classic Monsters Unleashed, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Midnight Under the Big Top, Rhysling Anthology (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 3 and 4, The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Worlds of Light and Darkness, One of Us, Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Tales of the Lost Vol. 3, Hope: Poems of Hope and Resilience From the Pandemic, Sorrow and many others.

Related link: Interview: Poetic Voices of Horror: Linda D. Addison talks about working with Alessandro Manzetti

About Independent Legions

Independent Legions is a publishing company specializing in horror and dark fiction, leading in Italy, founded in 2015 by two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti. Since that time we have published, in English and Italian, more than 100 books by the most revered and successful writers in the horror genre: Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, David J. Schow, Robert McCammon, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Peter Straub, Charlee Jacob, Dennis Etchison, Jonathan Maberry, Lucy Taylor, John Shirley and many others.

So far, they have published more than 150 authors, among them 60 Bram Stoker Award winners. They’re the recipient of the Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award 2017, which brings recognition to an outstanding publisher of horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction. Their publications have won or been nominated multiple times for the Bram Stoker Awards, the Splattepunk Awards, This Is Horror Awards and the Rhysling Awards. All publications, both digital and printed, are available at Amazon, major online booksellers and at The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles).

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