Anna Maria Manalo is a trained therapist. self-taught as a screenwriter, she placed in several competitions for her screenplays based on real cases.
She has traveled to more than 27 countries amassing witness encounters with the macabre, the unknown and with negative entities, including a Mothman-like demonic infestation in her own hometown of San Juan in the Philippines.
Highly rated for her graphic, atmospheric and suspenseful writing, Manalo specializes in both fiction and nonfiction novels and anthologies in the genre of supernatural and historical suspense. (Amazon)
Her first book, “Portal: A Lifetime of Paranormal Experiences,” focuses on the ghosts, entities and cryptids from around the world.
The book is written in two parts with the first focusing on a family in the Philippines that for 70 years, has been followed by entities.
The second part of the book focuses on various paranormal phenomena reported to Manalo during her travels around the world.
Her second book, “The Way Through The Woods: A Child's Escape Through The Haunted Forests Of WWII,” is the story of a young girl who escapes from her captors in order to search for her father. She hides in Bavarian woods.
Website
Books
The Way Through The Woods: A Child's Escape Through The Haunted Forests Of WWII
Portal: A Lifetime of Paranormal Experiences