Contact: Lisa Mannetti
Website: www.lisamannetti.com
Email: lm@lisamannetti.com
The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti won the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel!
Praise for The Gentling Box
“A keenly conceived and richly executed cornucopia of the blackest magic. Mannetti’s prowess as a writer hauls the reader into a shimmering, phantasmagoric demesne of relentless suspense and high-creep-factor chills, and doesn’t let go until the final page. This story is a dark work of art.”
–Edward Lee, author of CITY INFERNAL and BRIDES OF THE IMPALER.
"Mannetti's prose has teeth; sharp teeth that grab on and refuse to let go."
--J.A. Konrath, author of WHISKEY SOUR, FUZZY NAVEL
"Lisa Mannetti's impressive debut novel The Gentling Box transports you to another time and place with the same kind of dark magic that pervades the 19th-century world she's recreated, reminding us that it was not so long ago that the terror of sorcery and spectres was very real--very real, and not so far-fetched."
"When was the last time you lost yourself in a book? Lisa Mannetti dares you to enter a realm unlike anything you’ve dreamed of, a world ofgallant gypsies and ancient evil, of passionate obsessions … and abject terror. Take that dare. Immerse yourself. The rewards are plentiful. But be warned. Nothing could prepare you for the horror of The Gentling Box."
-- Robert Dunbar, author of THE PINES and THE
SHORE
"Mannetti's debut THE GENTLING BOX is astonishingly well written, richly drawn and simply remarkable. It shares that very rare thing that all the best novels do: the creation of a world, fully formed, familiar and yet magically unique, a world that makes us ache to remain in it for just a few moments longer after the last word is read."
--Nate Kenyon, Bram Stoker finalist and author of THE BLOODSTONES and THE REACH
"Erotic and chilling - Mannetti weaves a spellbinding tale of a Gypsy curse in a world that is both fantastical and utterly real."
--Alexandra Sokoloff, author of THE HARROWING and THE PRICE.
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New Horror Novel: THE GENTLING BOX
What’s your worst nightmare?
“Growing up, there were always stories and warnings of being abducted,” says Lisa Mannetti, “of being taken away from what you knew and loved, then forced to live in another world, another culture, a culture that revered and reveled in the most terrifying elements of the supernatural. And that scared the hell out of me.”
The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti was released on October 25th 2008 by DarkHart Press. Set in Hungary and Romania in the late 1800s, the book revolves around a Gypsy horse trader whose family is set upon by a powerful Romany sorceress. In order to save his wife and daughter – as well as himself – he must confront his worst childhood memory … a hideous, brutal horse-breaking device he swore he would never use: the gentling box. Cast in modern prose, the novel is meticulously researched to reflect the Gypsy way of life, and in order to write the book, Mannetti reached back to her deepest childhood fears.
The Gentling Box has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
About the author: Lisa Mannetti
A former magazine editor and English instructor at SUNY New Paltz and Mt. Saint Mary College, Lisa has published numerous short stories and been recommended for a Bram Stoker Award for this novel and a short story. She is also the webmistress and resident graphic artist for a hugely popular virtual haunted inn, the Chancery House. In addition to being interviewed at numerous online venues, she has appeared on TV to discuss one of her passions: Lizzie Borden. Her macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover (illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne who has worked with Stephen King: Secretary of Dreams, Volumes 1 and 2) is currently being bruited by her agent. Her short story, "Everybody Wins" has been made into a short indie film directed by Paul Leyden see: IMDB.
Read a review of "Everybody Wins" from These Guns for Hire edited by J.A. Konrath here.
For more information about Lisa Mannetti’s work visit her author website at www.lisamannetti.com or her virtual haunted house www.thechanceryhouse.com an award winning site with more than 3.5 million hits to date.
To interview the author, email lm@lisamannett.com or lisa.mannetti.com@verizon.net
You may also contact the publisher, DARKHART Press: info@darkhartpress.com
DarkHart Press specializes in original horror, dark fantsy and paranormal books and collections and antholigies with short stories from some of today's
premier authors including: Robert Dunbar, Bryon Morrigan, Edward Lee, James A. Moore, Sephera Giron, Gord Rollo, Hal Bodner,
Donald Michael Platt and more.
The Gentling Box is available from DarkHart Press and is also available though Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble.com , Horror Mall, many other online outets including EBay, and at your local bookstores.
Recent interviews with Lisa Mannetti appear online at : Wintersteel and Count Gore: Creature Feature
Review copies are also available by contacting the publisher at info@darkhart.com.
Meet Author Lisa Mannetti from Gore De Vol on Vimeo
