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About Us. Independent Legions is a publishing company specializing in horror fiction, located in Italy, founded in 2015 by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Alessandro Manzetti. Since that time, we have published, in English and Italian, more than 50 titles 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, Carlton Mellick, Greg F. Gifune, Gene O’Neill, Nicole Cushing, Lucy Taylor, Shane McKenzie, Alyssa Wong, Usman Malik, and many others. We have already bought the rights to about 25 books that will be released in 2018 and 2019, including works by Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Tanith Lee, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Caitlín Kiernan, John A. Lindqvist, Brian Lumley, Mark Alan Miller, anthologies edited by Stephen Jones and Mort Castle, and other works by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, Poppy Z. Brite, and many more. So far, we have published and are about to publish a total of 137 authors, among them more than 45 Bram Stoker Award-winning authors and 2 volumes of our anthology series The Beauty of Death – The Gargantuan Book of Horror Tales. Each volume has contained about 40 stories by both contemporary masters of horror and newcomers. The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 (June 2016), edited by Alessandro Manzetti, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. In 2017, we started publishing, in Italian, a deluxe limited edition series of works by Clive Barker.
We're the recipient of the Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award 2017. The Specialty Press Award brings recognition to an outstanding publisher of horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction.
Our publishing team is comprised of several people (divided into English and Italian departments): editors, copywriters, translators, proofreaders, consultants, illustrators, and marketing specialists. All publications, both digital and printed, are available on Amazon and major online booksellers. Paperback editions (and limited & special editions) are also available at our online store and at some specialized libraries in Italy.