-
New Episode of Adventure Lanzarote: Much More than Graciosa
My cross-media project Adventure Lanzarote, co-managed with my wife Valentina Kay, gets a new content with Much More than Graciosa. Expect: the stunning eighth Canary in 4k awesomeness, a catchy soundtrack we created and I played for the occasion — for a hiking project we had no idea at all was in fact doable: the loop of the South Coast. Follow our stories on the website and subscribe to Adventure Lanzarote YouTube Channel to make sure not to miss any new content.
-
New Episode of Adventure Lanzarote: Papagayo Connection
A new adventure for you for my cross-media project Adventure Lanzarote, co-managed with my wife Valentina Kay. This time: Papagayo Connection, in which our heroes — in 4k glory — reach the iconic posterchild beach of Lanzarote (the titular Playa Papagayo, as you suspected), via the low path invented by negotiating the rocks under the cliffs and swimming. Follow our stories on the website and subscribe to Adventure Lanzarote YouTube Channel to make sure not to miss any new content.
-
New Episode of Adventure Lanzarote: The Big Black Dune
The cross-media project Adventure Lanzarote, co-managed with my wife Valentina Kay, continues with a new episode: The Big Black Dune. In which we face: a big black dune. Now you can do several things. One of the those is: go read the article on Adventure Lanzarote. Follow our stories on the website and subscribe to Adventure Lanzarote YouTube Channel to make sure not to miss any new content.
-
Out Now in Preorder: Contact 2. Blood & Steel, featuring my “Sacrificium”
The new anthology Contact 2. Blood&Steel is now available for preorder on Amazon, launch date August 31. The book follows 2021’s successful Contact! and offers more historical settings than the first book, with stories by Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more great authors. My story is called “Sacrificium” and is set on Lake Como in the Roman era, when a troop of legionaries, led by Numidian centurion Aulus Domitius, is sent to investigate a remote fishing village. Disturbing rumors, people disappearing, an escapee with horrible scars and wounds ranting about eerie, unhealthy rituals…
-
Shattered Mountain
In the Adventure section, you’ll find a new story and a video, in 4k glory, about a recent ascent to Pizzo Emet (3,200), on the Italy-Switzerland border, Val Spluga. Plus, my companion for this ascent (and wife) Valentina published a beautiful photo gallery on her brand-new website, titled Green Blue Gray. Check it out!
-
New Episode of Adventure Lanzarote: Discovering La Palma
A new article and video have been published for my cross-media project Adventure Lanzarote, co-managed with my wife Valentina Kay. In this chapter we tell of a 4-day escapade to the verdant paradise of La Palma — another of the Canary Island gems. Follow our stories on the website and subscribe to Adventure Lanzarote YouTube Channel to make sure not to miss any new content.
-
New Project: Adventure Lanzarote
Introducing my latest cross-media project: Adventure Lanzarote! In collaboration with my wife Valentina Kay, a new chapter of exploration begins with the launch of Adventure Lanzarote. Inspired by the mesmerizing landscapes, the unexpected colors and all the tales of the Atlantic island where we moved to last year, this multimedia container will serve as a deeper dive into the wonders of the Island of Fire — beyond the usual travel guides. You’ll find stories and photos and also videos — thanks to our brand-new Adventure Lanzarote YouTube Channel.
-
Out Now: My Translation of Eximeno’s “The Sweetest” in Chthonic Matter
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.
-
Coming Soon: Contact 2. Blood & Steel, featuring “Sacrificium”
After 2021’s Contact! (which still sits at a solid #171 in the Horror Anthology category on Amazon.com), I’ll be back on the frontline for more beasties and badasses in Contact 2. Blood&Steel, alongside Julian Michael Carver, David Rose, Alister Hodge, Chris McInally (who also edited the book) and more fantastic authors. This time, things will get close and personal with less technology and more historical settings. My story is called “Sacrificium” and tells about a squad of Roman Legionaries investigating the disappearance of a boy and disturbing rumors coming from a backwater village on Lake Como. Are you ready to fight the monsters?
-
Coming Soon: “Flatblack” in audio version for Thirteen Podcast
My story “Flatblack” will come to life in audio incarnation for Thirteen Podcast this summer. Thirteen is one of the best podcast out there, featuring slow-burn and atmospheric stories — from classic ghost stories to eerie supernatural and weird tales. All beautifully narrated and edited. “Flatblack” should be published in July. Stay tuned for updates!
-
Lanzarote Coast-to-Coast
With my wife Valentina, we traversed the island of Lanzarote from the South to the north tip, in a hike which took about 24 hours (including a bivouac rest) to cover the 75km of the Camino Natural from Playa Blanca to Órzola. An article about this tough and wonderful experience, made peculiar by very unusual weather for this tropical haven (it was pretty cold and we actually didn’t see the ocean the whole time!), will certainly come.
-
Out Now: Contact!, featuring The Shattering
Out now: Contact! A Military Horror Anthology — fetauring my new story The Shattering — brought to you by Screaming Banshee Press, who’s doing better and better and keeps delivering. After Nature striking back in Aberrations, Contact! offers thrills, action, badasses and beasties. Can you miss it? And I’m glad to have such authors as William Meikle, Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts, Lucas Pederson, among the line-up by my side.
-
Out Now: Umbría
(Finally) out now: Umbría, by Santiago Eximeno (Independent Legions Publishing). Translation from Spanish by me. Don’t miss it. Really.
-
Coming Soon: “The Shattering”
With Aberrations going strong, the guys at Screaming Banshee Press don’t rest on their Australian laurels and the next book is already coming: after zombies and natural horrors, Contact! promises (and no doubt will deliver) some good old action-packed, high-adrenaline military horror (never enough of that). And I’m happy to be in the line-up again, with a new SF-horror tale — sitting right on the mark between short story and novelette — I’m particularly fond of: The Shattering.
-
Find me at The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles
You can now find some of my stuff at The Last Bookstore, in Los Angeles, CA — “the biggest (and loveliest) new and secondhand bookshop in California” according to The Guardian — where a nice spot has been set for Independent Legions books, including my co-edited anthology Monsters of Any Kind, my English translation of Alessandro Manzetti’s novel Naraka, and The Beauty of Death 2 — where you can find my story “The Gorge of Children” (among many masters of modern horror). And lots of other good horror books, of course.
-
Synchronicity
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).
-
Out Now: Aberrations, featuring “Frozen in the Abyss”
Australia based Screaming Banshee Press has released Aberrations. A Creature Feature Anthology, where you can find my eco-mountaineering tale “Frozen in the Abyss“ alongside awesome stories of natural horror from authors all around the globe: Dave Jeffery, David Irons, Paul Mannering, Chris McInally, Alister Hodge, R.G. Blackstone, B.D. Ramsay, Lucas Pederson.
-
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).
-
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.
-
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.
