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.

(Finally) out now: Umbría, by Santiago Eximeno (Independent Legions Publishing). Translation from Spanish by me. Don’t miss it. Really.

Talking about synchronicity. Two brand new, wonderful incarnations came out almost simultaneously of the first two books I worked on as a translator: the Italian editions for Brian Keene’s The Conqueror Worms (I vermi conquistatori, co-translated with Luigi Musolino, published this time by Independent Legions — after Edizioni XII and Urania Mondadori); and Rocky Wood’s Stephen King. Uncollected Unpublished (Stephen King. Le opere segrete del re, deluxe edition for Kipple Officina Libraria).

The English edition of Umbría, by Santiago Eximeno (Nocte Award winner with this book), which I’m translating from Spanish, has slipped to late 2020. (The wait will be worth it, this is one hell of a book).

The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2019 Stoker Awards Finalists. Two books are listed to which I contributed — translating them into English from Italian. Both works are by Alessandro Manzetti: The Keeper of Chernobyl (Long Fiction category), and Calcutta Horror (Graphic Novel category, drawn by Stefano Cardoselli and based on Poppy Z. Brite’s cult story). Winners will be announced during the StokerCon, this year in London, UK, April 18-19.

Necro Publications has published The Big Book of Blasphemy, a themed anthology including a number of the biggest names in extreme horror. You’ll find the likes of Brian Keene, Edward Lee, Lucy Taylor and many others masters of the not-for-the-squeamish. Two featured stories are translated by me, from Italian into English: The Salty Virgin by Alessandro Manzetti, and Paolo Di Orazio’s R.I.B. – Rest in Blood.

Out now: the italian edition of Crota, by Owl Goingback. Translation by Daniele Bonfanti. Also available in limited numbered edition on Independent Legion’s online store.

Out now: Stephen Jones’s Storie da incubo (Nightmare Stories). Italian language.  Including my translations for works by: Stephen Jones (intro), Sidney J. Bounds, Dennis Etchison, Michael M. Smith, Harlan Ellison, Hugh B. Cave, Christopher Fowler, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale. Limited and numbered collection edition.

Out now: Shanti – The Sadist Heaven, the new novel by Alessandro Manzetti, for Necro Publications, available in trade paperback and hardcover limited edition. Translation into English by Daniele Bonfanti.

I’m glad to get the news from the author: the next two books in Alessandro Manzetti’s Naraka cycle (Shanti and The Radioactive Bride) will be published in 2019 by such an iconic publisher as Necro Publications. Translations into English by me.

Out now: Il ponte, Italian edition of Skipp & Spector’s eco-splatterpunk classic The Bridge (1991). Translation by Daniele Bonfanti.

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).