Novels and Long Fiction
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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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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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Game: Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year
My novelette Game got a shortlist Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, vol.9. The anthology including the story, The Beauty of Death — featuring many of the top names of today’s horror — is also mentioned in the Summation 2016, and colleagues Daniel Braum and Thersa Matsuura got Honorable Mentions as well.
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2016 Bram Stoker Awards: The Beauty of Death, featuring “Game,” is a nominee
The Beauty of Death, including my novelette “Game” and featuring stories by Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp and many others, is on the shortlist of the five 2016 Bram Stoker Award Nominees, Anthology category.
