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Umbría: launch delay
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).
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Cover Reveal: Aberrations, featuring “Frozen in the Abyss”
Screaming Banshee Press has announced the cover for Aberrations, their next themed anthology — following Blood, Brains and Bullets — which will include my Frozen in the Abyss.
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I’m a Splatterpunk Award nominee with Monsters of Any Kind
Wrath James White and Brian Keene have announced the nominees for the annual Splatterpunk Awards, including Monsters of Any Kind, the monster anthology I co-edited with Alessandro Manzetti. The book includes stories by Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Maberry, Lucy Taylor, Cody Goodfellow, Owl Goingback, Jess Landry, Michael G. Baughan, Michael Bailey, Erinn L. Kemper, Greg Sisco, Santiago Eximeno (whose fantastic story Noverim Te I translated from Spanish), Mark Alan Miller, Damien A. Walters, Bruce Boston, Gregory L. Norris, Monica J. O’Rourke, David J. Schow, Edward Lee. Cool.
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Two of my Translations among the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists
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.
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A Couple of Translations in The Big Book of Blasphemy
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.
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Five Stories from Monsters of Any Kind Listed in The Best Horror of the Year, vol.11
Ellen Datlow’s full rec list for The Best Horror of the Year, vol.11, includes five stories from Monsters of Any Kind, the monster anthology I co-edited with Alessandro Manzetti: Lucy Taylor’s Sucklings; Damien Angelica Walter’s The Last Wintergirl; Mark Alan Miller’s The Dive; Erinn Kemper’s Cracker Creek; and Santiago Eximeno’s Noverim Te (translated from Spanish by me). The book also includes stories by Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Maberry, Cody Goodfellow, Owl Goingback, Jess Landry, Michael G. Baughan, Michael Bailey, Greg Sisco, Bruce Boston, Gregory L. Norris, Monica J. O’Rourke, David J. Schow, and Edward Lee.
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Out Now: Black Dandy #4, featuring “Flatblack”
Out now: Black Dandy #4: Fiction for the Fearless (Aug, 2019; edited by Andrew Lynch), including my new weird story, “Flatblack.” Magazine available on Amazon in Kindle and print version.
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Out Now: Crota
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.
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Out Now: Unstoppable. A Greatswordpunk Graphic Novel
Out now: Kickstarter Edition of my geatswordpunk graphic novel Unstoppable, drawn by Stefano Cardoselli and colored by Patrizia Comino.
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Out Now: Storie da Incubo
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.
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Out Now: Shanti. The Sadist Heaven
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.
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What I Think When I Think Euro Horror
The StokerCon 2019 Souvenir Anthology — a gift book for the attendants of the world’s most important, annual horror literature convention — edited this year by Linda D. Addison, includes my essay What I Think When I Think Euro Horror. The fat book is full of interesting contributions by many top names of today’s horror and dark fiction.
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Coming Soon: Live, Die, Reload
Live, Die, Reload, the new action-packed graphic novel by Stefano Cardoselli and Andrea Amenta, is now on Diamond’s Previews Catalog, ready to hit comics stores around the world on July, 31, for Caliber Comics. Lettered by Bram Meehan, translated by me and edited by me and A. Molinari at Caliber.
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Kickstarter Success: Unstoppable. A Greatswordpunk Graphic Novel
ArmageDoom Factory studio’s crowdfunding for my greatswordpunk graphic novel Unstoppable (with Cardoselli and Comino) was successful, reaching 274% of its main goal and unlocking five stretch goals. Kickstarter Edition coming in June.
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Kickstarter Success: Sunshine Doom 1971
Crowdfunding campaign successful for Sunshine Doom 1971, a hardboiled, hallucinated graphic novel by Amenta and Cardoselli. Translation into English and editing by Daniele Bonfanti. Kickstarter Edition coming soon.
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Next Two Books in the Naraka Cycle for Necro Publications
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.
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Bram Stoker Awards 2018: Two books I contributed to in the Best Novel Preliminary Ballot
The Horror Writers Association has announced the Preliminary Ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards, including two books I contributed to, both in the Best Novel category: Alessandro Manzetti‘s Naraka (as translator) and Paolo Di Orazio‘s Dark Mary (as translation editor). Fearsome rivals for the shortlist — including Stephen King, Josh Malerman, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Tremblay, Joyce Carol Oates and Guillermo Del Toro…
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Kickstarter Success: Hell Cross #2 – Bloody Roots
Crowdfunding campaign successful for Hell Cross #2 – Bloody Roots, the new issue of the gory hardboiled dystopia by Amenta, Cardoselli and Devito. Translation into English and editing by Daniele Bonfanti. Kickstarter Edition coming March.
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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.
