Works
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Coming Soon: Live, Die, Reload
Cover reveal (and what a cover) for Live, Die, Reload, action graphic novel by Stefano Cardoselli and Andrea Amenta (ArmageDoom Factory studio), hitting comics stores around the world via Diamond this summer, for Caliber Comics. Lettered by Bram Meehan, translated by me and edited by me and A. Molinari.
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Out Now: Il Ponte
Out now: Il ponte, Italian edition of Skipp & Spector’s eco-splatterpunk classic The Bridge (1991). Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Coming Soon: Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Vol. 4, featuring “The Bearded Woman”
Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, vol.4, edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax — coming May 2019 for Red Room Press — will include a reprint of my translation of Alessandro Manzetti’s short story The Bearded Woman, originally published in Splatterpunk Forever, charity anthology edited by Jack Bantry & Kit Power (splatterpunkzine).
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Coming Soon: Planet Caravan
Coming summer 2019: Stefano Cardoselli’s Planet Caravan, a new SF comics series developed by ArmageDoom Factory for Scout Comics. Written by Andrea Amenta, lettered by Bram Meehan, translation into English end editing by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Out Now: Sinfonia Dark
Out now: Sinfonia Dark, collecting Poppy Z. Brite’s best short stories. Italian language, limited numbered edition. Translations by Daniele Bonfanti for Mancanza (Missing) e L’ultimo desiderio (Last Wish).
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Coming Soon: Storie da Incubo
Coming spring, 2019: Stephen Jones’s Storie da incubo (The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories). Italian language. The book — which will come out in a limited and numbered collection edition by Independent Legions — includes my translations for works by: Stephen Jones (intro), Harlan Ellison, Sidney J. Bounds, Dennis Etchison, Michael M. Smith, Hugh B. Cave, Christopher Fowler, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale.
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Out Now: Il Libro degli Orrori
Out now: Stephen Jones’s Il libro degli orrori (A Book of Horrors). Italian language. Including my translations for: Stephen King’s The Little Green God of Agony, John A. Lindqvist’s The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer, Elizabeth Hand’s Near Zennor, Richard C. Matheson’s Last Words, and the editor’s intro. Limited and numbered collection edition.
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Out Now: Leggere Stephen King
Out now: Leggere Stephen King, Italian edition of Reading Stephen King (Cemetery Dance, 2017), non-fiction anthology edited by Brian J. Freeman, featuring Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum, Frank Darabont and many others. Limited edition, 600 numbered copies. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Coming Soon: Ballad of the Broken Heart
Crowdfunding campaign successful for Ballad of the Broken Heart, cyberpunk graphic novel by Amenta/Cardoselli/Devito (ArmageDoom Factory). Translation into English and editing by Daniele Bonfanti. Book coming february, 2019.
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Out Now: Monsters of Any Kind
Out now: Monsters of Any Kind, a new monster anthology edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti, including original illustrations by Stefano Cardoselli for each of the stories by such monsters as Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Maberry, Lucy Taylor, Cody Goodfellow, Owl Goingback, Jess Landry, Michael G. Baughan, Michael Bailey, Erinn L. Kemper, Greg Sisco, Santiago Eximeno, Mark Alan Miller, Damien A. Walters, Bruce Boston, Gregory L. Norris, Monica J. O’Rourke, David J. Schow, Edward Lee.
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Coming Soon: Il libro degli orrori
For the Italian edition of Stephen Jones‘s A Book of Horrors, I will translate Stephen King‘s The Little Green God of Agony, John A. Lindqvist‘s The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer, Elizabeth Hand‘s Near Zennor, Richard C. Matheson‘s Last Words, and the editor’s intro. Coming September, 2018.
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Coming Soon: Italian Edition of Skipp & Spector’s cult classic The Bridge
Independent Legions has announced the first Italian edition of The Bridge, by John Skipp & Craig Spector — one of the most fundamental books of modern horror. Coming october, 2018. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Honorable Mention for my story “The Gorge of Children” in The Best Horror of the Year, vol. 10
Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, vol.10 for my story “The Gorge of Children,” from the anthology The Beauty of Death II (which was a Stoker nominee and features Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Caitlìn R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, John Langan, Edward Lee, and many others). “The Gorge of Children” is also mentioned in the Summation 2017 of the book.
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Out Now: Shining in the Dark, featuring my translations of John A. Lindqvist and Stephen King’s stories
Out now: the Italian edition of Shining in the Dark, a new anthology edited by Hans-Åke Lilja and published by Independent Legions, featuring great horror authors. Translations by Daniele Bonfanti: The Blue Air Compressor, rare short story by Stephen King; The Keeper’s Companion, original novelette by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
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Out Now: Naraka
Out now: Naraka, novel by Alessandro Manzetti, translated into English by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Goodjack’s Box #1
Online on Cemetery Pod the first issue of my audiocolumn, GoodJack’s Box #1: “Fire”: literature, symbolism and popular culture, mystery. From Clive Barker’s demons and Ramsey Campbell’s witches, through autoimmolation, to the phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion. (Audio in Italian only).
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Splatterpunk Forever, featuring my translation of Manzetti’s “The Bearded Woman”
Out now: Splatterpunk Forever, a charity anthology edited by Jack Bantry & Kit Power (splatterpunkzine), including my English translation of Alessandro Manzetti‘s short story The Bearded Woman.
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2017 Bram Stoker Awards: The Beauty of Death 2, including “The Gorge of Children,” made the shortlist
The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards nominations: The Beauty of Death 2 – Death by Water, including my short story The Gorge of Children — alongside top authors like Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Caitlìn R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, John Langan, Edward Lee, and many others — is on the shortlist, Anthology category.
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Out Now: Monsters of Any Kind
Independent Legions has announced the anthology Monsters of Any Kind, edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti. It will collect original short stories about actual (not metaphorical) monsters, unusual creatures especially. English language. Coming October, 2018.
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A couple of my translations for John A. Lindqvist and Stephen King
Independent Legions has announced the Italian edition of Shining in the Dark, a new anthology edited by Hans-Åke Lilja, featuring great horror authors. I’m currently working on the translations of John Ajvide Lindqvist‘s original novelette The Keeper’s Companion and Stephen King‘s rare story The Blue Air Compressor.
