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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.
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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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Warp! and Ghosts
Double outdoor update: a new gallery titled Warp! — about a short hike along the Camino Real from Temisas to Agüimes, in Gran Canaria, including a detour to explore the evocative Cuevas de la Audiencia and spectacular Barranco de las Vacas; and Ghosts — English version of the reportage about my experience at the Lake Orta Ultra Trail 2016 (90 Km, +5800 m elevation gain).
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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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San Juan: Travesìa a Nado Nocturna Playa de Arinaga
Celebrating the beginning of summer, night of San Juan — among fireworks and Batucada drums — I’ve swum the Travesìa a Nado Nocturna de Playa de Arinaga (night open-water crossing), in Gran Canaria. Short (only 600 m), but a lot of fun. A wonderful fiesta. I’ll tell about it in the Adventures sections (sooner or later).
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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.
