Works
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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.
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Out Now: Claustrofollia
Out now: Claustrofollia, Italian version of the extreme novel Clusterfuck, by Carlton Mellick III. This is an extreme novel by any means and you shouldn’t miss it. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Out Now: The Beauty of Death 2, featuring “The Gorge of Children”
Out now: The Beauty of Death 2 – Death by Water, the new, water-themed installment of the gargantuan book of horror tales. Authors include Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Caitlìn R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, John Langan, Edward Lee, and many other top horror writers. So, it’s pretty cool that, alongside their works, you’ll find also my new story The Gorge of Children. English language.
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Out Now: La Tana di Mezzanotte
Out now: La tana di mezzanotte, first Italian edition of Richard Laymon’s novel Midnight’s Lair (1988). Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Coming Soon: Paralisi
Good Kill Edizioni announced title and cover of Paralisi, Italian edition of Brian Evenson‘s novel Immobility. Coming September 2017. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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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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Coming Soon: Claustrofollia
Independent Legions announced Claustrofollia, the Italian edition of Carlton Mellick III‘s extreme novel Clusterfuck, (which is one hell of a translation — because of the frat boy lingo and because you just keep laughing into tears while trying to work on it). Coming december, 2017. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Out Now: Supernatural Horror, featuring my “Bones of the Dead”
Out now: Supernatural Horror, a deluxe hardcover anthology mixing classic masters (like Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nahtaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Robert E. Howard and others) and contemporary authors, for Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy series. The big, beautiful book includes my new story “Bones of the Dead“ (English language).
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Out Now: Jakabok
Out now: Jakabok. Il demone del libro, first Italian edition of Clive Barker’s Mister B.Gone. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti. Book launch with the publisher soon, at Profondo Rosso Store, in Rome.
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Coming Soon: “The Gorge of Children” in The Beauty of Death 2. Death by Water
Final TOC announced for The Beauty of Death 2 – Death by Water, featuring an astonishing array of international authors: Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, John Langan, Edward Lee and many other top horror writers. And alongside them, my new story “The Gorge of Children.” Book coming October 2017, English language.
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Coming Soon: La Tana di Mezzanotte
Independent Legions announced La tana di mezzanotte, coming October 2017, first Italian edition of Richard Laymon’s Midnight’s Lair (1988). Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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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.
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Out Now: La casa a Nazareth Hill, Ramsey Campbell
Out now: La casa a Nazareth Hill (Independent Legions Publishing), Italian edition of Ramsey Campbell’s harrowing novel The House on Nazareth Hill. Italian translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Translating Clive Barker’s Mister B. Gone
Independent Legions has revealed cover and title of the novel Jakabok. Il demone del libro, first Italian edition of Mister B.Gone, by Clive Barker. Coming June 2017, translation by Daniele Bonfanti.
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Coming Soon: “Bones of the Dead” in Flame Tree’s Deluxe Hardcover Supernatural Horror
Flame Tree Publishing has announced author list and selected stories for Supernatural Horror, a deluxe hardcover anthology in their Gothic Fantasy series, mixing classic masters and contemporary writers; including my new story Bones of the Dead (English). Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nahtaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Robert E. Howard and others alongside contemporary authors. There you’ll find my new story “Bones of the Dead“ (English language).
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Out Now: “Il Cacasuore” in Best Italian Horror Flash Fiction
Out now: Splatter presenta: Best Italian Horror Flash Fiction, an Italian horror anthology of short stories and comics, with international guests. I’m in good company with Nicola Lombardi, Paolo Di Orazio, Luigi Musolino and more. The book includes my new work Il Cacasuore, and my translations of Missing and Last Wish by special guest Poppy Z. Brite.
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Congelato nell’abisso
(Racconto, in Queen Anne’s Resurrection – I demoni del mare, Mezzotints / Il Posto Nero Free Ebooks, 2012, a cura di Alessandro Manzetti) Dalla prefazione di Edoardo RosatiPaure ereditate dall’infanzia (come l’idea perturbante che anche il più piccolo degli specchi d’acqua – pure una banale pozzanghera – possa celare l’Abisso), tentacolari creature amorfe sbucate dalla cosmogonia lovecraftiana, isole mostruose non segnalate sulle mappe, e poi maliarde sirene assassine, ciclopici calamari verniani, messaggi sulfurei nelle bottiglie, guardiani del faro dal cuore di tenebra… In quest’antologia la situazione emozionale è praticamente questa: voi siete la cerchia degli ascoltatori elettrizzati che siede attorno al falò appiccato in spiaggia e la voce narrante dei 20…
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Fungi
Fungi (Racconto, in Visioni fatate, Delmiglio Editore, Quaderni Indaco, 2011) Ventuno racconti accomunati dalla spettacolare e suggestiva cornice del Benaco, che ruotano attorno alle più diverse declinazioni del soggetto “fate”. Il mio racconto: Fungi Un padre e un bambino a caccia di funghi sul Monte Baldo. Un’incetta di porcini enormi su un balcone splendido sopra il Lago di Garda. Una sorpresa per la madre, e già il languorino per il risotto dell’indomani. Poi però le cose cambiano. Volete scoprire qual è il vero legame tra funghi e fate?
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Semong
(Racconto, in Cronache di inizio millennio, Historica Edizioni, Tascabili, 2011a cura di Laura Costantini e Loredana Falcone) Dalla quarta di copertina:Dal 2001 al 2011. Il primo decennio del XXI secolo. Dieci anni densi di avvenimenti, cambiamenti, cataclismi climatici, politici e sociali che valeva la pena raccontare per lasciarne traccia e, senza avere la pretesa di un’interpretazione sociale e antropologica, poterne restituire il sapore. Gli autori:32 autori italiani tra cui Gianluca Morozzi, Danilo Arona, Maurizio De Giovanni, Barbara Garlaschelli, Patrizia Mintz, Enrico Pandiani. Prefazione di Marino Sinibaldi. Il mio racconto: SemongQualche giorno dopo il 26 dicembre 2004, isola di Simeulue (Sumatra, Indonesia).La storia vuole dare uno spaccato denso della situazione di…
