Works
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Out Now: Pazuzu: Effetto Nocebo – Italian Edition
My new novel is now available on Amazon and Kobo in its Italian edition, published by Delos Digital. This is the eBook edition, the print book is coming in a couple months. If you read Italian, you can either go ahead and buy it (which would make you extremely cool) or read on and discover shocking truths about it: Pazuzu: Effetto Nocebo is co-authored by me and my wife (and, after Urlan and Poiesis, regular second writing head) Valentina Kay in unholy alliance with Italian horror legend Danilo Arona. This should be cool for you but it’s extra cool for me because I’ve always considered Danilo my master and his writings were a major…
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Pazuzu: Effetto Nocebo
Romanzo (2025, Delos Digital; con Valentina Kay e Danilo Arona) Qualcosa di oscuro sta cercando di prendere il controllo degli incubi dell’umanità… “Ci sono storie che non si limitano a essere lette. Si incuneano sotto la pelle come scabbia. E divorano la pancia. E continuano a vivere anche dopo che l’ultima pagina è stata sfogliata. Nocebo è una di quelle. Un viaggio che serpeggia tra le ombre del mito, dove l’invisibile azzanna il reale. E il razionale si sgretola nell’abbraccio del soprannaturale.” – dalla prefazione di Edoardo Rosati Leonard Sorrentino, trafficante d’arte occulta newyorkese, compra una statuetta di Pazuzu, demone sumero dei venti, in un negozio di Marrakesh. Javier Mendoza,…
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The Symbiosis has Started
So. It’s out! Poiesis is now available worldwide on Amazon (exclusively, for now), and this means Symbiosis has begun. Which is pretty bad, for me, I guess, because now I have to continue with this thing, and it will finally consume what little sanity was left. Well. That happens. Luckily, I’m not alone in this one (and that’s the main reason I finally managed to face it, as the project has been there, waiting, since 2016): Symbiosis is another double-headed project I’m tackling together with my wife, Valentina Kay. Also, you may have seen that Peter Watts has penned the intro — so you can imagine stoke levels around here.…
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My story “Flatblack” out now for Thirteen Podcast
Thirteen Podcast has just released an audio version of “Flatblack.” I’ve just finished listening to the story myself and I’m blown away by the fantastic job the team at Thirteen has done — narrator Mason Amadeus, sound designer Brooke Jennett (who also voiced the Wife), audio editor Haberlin Roberts, with assistance from Bridgett Howard and Ian Epperson. The story is beautifully narrated and the whole production is top-notch — eerie as hell. And the bellow. Oh, the bellow will haunt me tonight. Thirteen is a popular podcast which specializes in atmospheric, spooky stories, and features a free monthly story on their main website and a second, subscriber-only story on their…
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 5: Interview with the AI
And here we are with the mind-boggling final episode of the 5-article series bringing to you the “Making Of” Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment. You can read the Making Of – Part 5: Interview with the AI on Bee Lab’s website, in which the authors (more or less humans) speak with the AI artist about the creative process behind the graphic novella. Prepare for a very peculiar experience.
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Symbiosis
Serial Novel (2024, Bee Lab; with Valentina Kay) A serial novel of wild cosmic adventure and mind-twisting space horror, published in bite-sized episodes perfect for a single reading session! “Absurdly original” – Peter Watts Modifying bees, genetically and cybernetically, did not save Earth from Eco-Singularity. But the surviving few who made it to Ganymede rebooted civilization as the Symbiosis: a covenant of humans and bee-colony superorganisms.Captain Petra, a bee colony, helms the starship Endurance—a traveling ecosystem reminiscent of a Mediterranean village (plus photosynthetic hull, greenhouse main deck, and dark energy sails). With her daredevil crew of varied lifeforms, they travel via the ridiculously dangerous icebreaking process, which implies converting into…
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 4 (Interlude)
Before venturing into the Interview with the AI (which I’m sure you’re eager to get to), we thought you were ready for some of the most sanity-jeopardizing unused panels you can find in the “Making Of” section of Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment. You can check it out in the Making Of – Part 4 (Interlude) article just published on Bee Lab’s website. Are you ready?
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 3
Third instalment of the Making Of out on Bee Lab’s website. In which our heroes tell about the treacherous final steps in putting together the graphic novella.
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 2
New issue of the Making Of out on Bee Lab’s website. You can now discover all the blood-chilling secrets about the creation of your favorite space cat. You’ve been waiting for this; we deliver.
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat: the Making Of – Part 1
Want to know how we did it? I know you want. So, why don’t you check out the Making Of about my new, AI-illustrated graphic novella Urlan, Cosmic Cat? Cool stuff, I promise.
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Out Now: Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment
My new book is out! I’m especially happy about this one, because it’s also the first book I co-authored with my wife (and lifelong editor), Valentina Kay, and the first book we’re publishing with our brand-new studio, Bee Lab. Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment is a graphic novella ripe with action, cats, guns, aliens and cool stuff. Also, it’s an exploration of what can be done with these robots — the art has been completely realized with Dall-E 3 via ChatGPT Pro. In the Making Of section, we tell you how we did that, explore the process, and also interview the robotic artist. The whole thing is interesting, very…
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Urlan, Cosmic Cat. An AI-Illustrated Experiment
Graphic Novella and Essay (2024, Bee Lab; with Valentina Kay) About the Book: An AI-Illustrated Experiment to showcase what can be done at the end of 2023 through human-AI collaboration. A short but complete — and ultra-cool — SF/horror comic book, ripe with action and also featuing a fun Making Of and an interview with the AI artist! Urlan, Cosmic Cat is a ground-breaking exploration of AI-human collaboration in graphic storytelling. Written, edited, lettered by Daniele Bonfanti and Valentina Kay, the art has been fully realized with OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 through the ChatGPT Pro interface. A short but complete space adventure which weaves the emerging technology’s strengths and weaknesses into…
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Out Now in Preorder: Contact 2. Blood & Steel, featuring my “Sacrificium”
The new anthology Contact 2. Blood&Steel is now available for preorder on Amazon, launch date August 31. The book follows 2021’s successful Contact! and offers more historical settings than the first book, with stories by Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more great authors. My story is called “Sacrificium” and is set on Lake Como in the Roman era, when a troop of legionaries, led by Numidian centurion Aulus Domitius, is sent to investigate a remote fishing village. Disturbing rumors, people disappearing, an escapee with horrible scars and wounds ranting about eerie, unhealthy rituals…
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Out Now: My Translation of Eximeno’s “The Sweetest” in Chthonic Matter
Santiago Eximeno‘s disturbing story “The Sweetest,” translated by me, which already appeared in his (disturbingly good) personal collection Umbría, is back in the summer issue of Chthonic Matter. That’s a new — and very promising — quarterly series (this is the second book) by Nightscript editor C.M. Muller. The book includes “tales from the darkside” by Jason A. Wyckoff, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Gail Pinto, Santiago Eximeno, Gordon Brown, Stephen McQuiggan, K. Wallace King, Patrick Barbis. It’s already on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
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Coming Soon: Contact 2. Blood & Steel, featuring “Sacrificium”
After 2021’s Contact! (which still sits at a solid #171 in the Horror Anthology category on Amazon.com), I’ll be back on the frontline for more beasties and badasses in Contact 2. Blood&Steel, alongside Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more fantastic authors. This time, things will get close and personal with less technology and more historical settings. My story is called “Sacrificium” and tells about a squad of Roman Legionaries investigating the disappearance of a boy and disturbing rumors coming from a backwater village on Lake Como. Are you ready to fight the monsters?
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Coming Soon: “Flatblack” in audio version for Thirteen Podcast
My story “Flatblack” will come to life in audio incarnation for Thirteen Podcast this summer. Thirteen is one of the best podcast out there, featuring slow-burn and atmospheric stories — from classic ghost stories to eerie supernatural and weird tales. All beautifully narrated and edited. “Flatblack” should be published in July. Stay tuned for updates!
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Out Now: Contact!, featuring The Shattering
Out now: Contact! A Military Horror Anthology — fetauring my new story The Shattering — brought to you by Screaming Banshee Press, who’s doing better and better and keeps delivering. After Nature striking back in Aberrations, Contact! offers thrills, action, badasses and beasties. Can you miss it? And I’m glad to have such authors as William Meikle, Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts, Lucas Pederson, among the line-up by my side.
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Out Now: Umbría
(Finally) out now: Umbría, by Santiago Eximeno (Independent Legions Publishing). Translation from Spanish by me. Don’t miss it. Really.
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The Shattering
story by Daniele Bonfanti, edited by Valentina Kayin Contact!. A Military Horror Anthology (2021, Screaming Banshee Press, ed. Chris McInally) Featuring: William Meikle, Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts, Daniele Bonfanti, Lucas Pederson & more Welcome to military horror at its finest. Inside you will find nine pulse-pounding stories from an A-list of genre stalwarts and newcomers alike, including William Meikle of S-Squad fame, international bestseller, Alister Hodge, and award-winning author, Lee Murray— with an all-new Taine McKenna adventure! Squaddies, mercs, bodyguards, Roman centurions— we’ve got it all. Big bad beasties included! When fangs are bared, and the blood starts to flow, its time to stand your ground and fight to the…
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Coming Soon: “The Shattering”
With Aberrations going strong, the guys at Screaming Banshee Press don’t rest on their Australian laurels and the next book is already coming: after zombies and natural horrors, Contact! promises (and no doubt will deliver) some good old action-packed, high-adrenaline military horror (never enough of that). And I’m happy to be in the line-up again, with a new SF-horror tale — sitting right on the mark between short story and novelette — I’m particularly fond of: The Shattering.
