Night Terrors al teatro Menotti di Milano

Appuntamento il 13 e 14 marzo al Teatro Menotti di Milano con lo spettacolo Night Terrors, con Gerard Logan e la regia di Gareth Armstrong.

Lo spettacolo, in lingua inglese e sovratitoli italiani grazie alla collaborazione con English Theater Milan, é ispirato a tre racconti di fantasmi dello scrittore E.F. Benson, “The Dance”, “In The Tube” e “The Confession of Charles Linkworth”.

Maggiori informazioni a questo link.

“Assistere all’interpretazione di Gerard Logan equivale a aggirarsi tra i misteri della natura, per non dimenticarli mai più… Un vero capolavoro di interpretazione solista” (The Edimburgh Guide)

Night Terrors is a solo performance by Gerard Logan, directed by Gareth Armstrong, to be held on 13-14 March at the Menotti Theater in Milano. The script is based on three ghost stories by E.F. Benson (“The Dance”, “In The Tube” and “The Confession of Charles Linkworth”) and the performance will be in English language, with Italian surtitles, thank to the collaboration with English Theater Milan. More informations at this link.

The Ferry of Souls, di A.L. Salmon

Tartarus Press, casa editrice indipendente britannica, ormai ben nota ai nostri lettori per il suo catalogo di estrema qualità, ha annunciato di recente la pubblicazione del volume The Ferry of Souls (1927) dello scrittore Arthur Leslie Salmon. 

Questo autore, ben poco conosciuto e originario della Cornovaglia, ha scritto alcune raccolte di racconti e poesie dove il mondo della realtà si fonde con il soprannaturale e il weird, tra presenze spettrali, creature dell’orrore, e descrizioni poetiche e a tratti spirituali. 

Il volume, che presenta in copertina un’opera di Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, contiene i racconti e le poesie di Salmon, inizialmente raccolti nell’antologia con lo stesso titolo e nel suo seguito (Waysides and Byways, 1928), ed è disponibile per l’acquisto a questo link.

Tartarus Press, an independent British publishing house, well known by our reader for its quality, announced a new volume, The Ferry of Souls (1927) by Arthur Leslie Salmon, a collection of his stories and poems, full of ghostly athmospheres, explicit horror, and poetic and spiritual talk. Cover art: Souls on the Banks of the Acheron by Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl (1898). The volume can be purchased on the Publisher’s website.

Shirley Jackson Awards 2021: i vincitori

I vincitori degli Shirley Jackson Awards, annuale riconoscimento per la migliore letteratura dell’orrore, fantastico e dark fantasy, sono stati annunciati il 29 ottobre 2022, durante il Boston Book Festival.

Qui di seguito la lista completa.

NOVEL

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press)

NOVELLA

• Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

• “We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It” by E. A. Petricone (Nightmare Magazine, February 2021)

SHORT FICTION

• “You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday” by Isabel J. Kim (khōréō magazine, August 2021)

 SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

• Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson (Meerkat Press)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

[TIE]

• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)
• Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

SPECIAL AWARD

• Ellen Datlow, in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021).

The 2021 Shirley Jackson Awards, for oustanding achievement in literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic were presented on October 29 during the Boston Book Festival. See above the full list. 

La stanza delle meraviglie di Guillermo del Toro

Cabinet of curiosities è il titolo della nuova serie televisiva horror a firma di Guillermo del Toro, che andrà in onda da martedì 25 ottobre a venerdì 28 ottobre 2022 su Netflix con i primi otto episodi.

La serie prevede due nuovi episodi al giorno di un’ora ciascuno e uniti da una tematica comune, che tratteranno “varie realtà al di fuori della normalità: le anomalie e le curiosità”, in un insieme di atmosfere che vanno dal magico al grottesco. Il tema della terza serata sarà dedicato a H.P.Lovecraft, con gli episodi “Pickman’s model” e “Dreams in the witch house”.

Cabinet of curiosities is the new horror tv serie by Guillermo del Toro, to be released on Netflix from 25 to 28 October 2022. The series will present eight episodes, two on each night and focused on four unique horror themes, with different atmospheres, from magical to grotesque.

Strane Visioni Digital: la seconda serie!

Torna il meglio del weird italiano con la nuova serie, tutta digitale e curata ancora una volta da Andrea Gibertoni, di Strane Visioni Digital, una selezione dei migliori racconti che hanno partecipato al Premio Hypnos 2022.

Le uscite, con cadenza ogni tre settimane, avranno inizio il 20 settembre 2022 per concludersi il 20 giugno 2023.

E’ già possibile, a questo link, sottoscrivere l’abbonamento per tutte le uscite della serie.

Maggiori informazioni e la lista completa dei racconti sono disponibili su questa pagina.

Strane Visioni Digital, by Edizioni Hypnos, will be back with a second series, starting September 2022. This new digital edition will collect the best short stories from the 2022 edition of Premio Hypnos and it is already available for the subscription at this link. Here the complete list of the issues, with the Authors and the publishing dates.

I vincitori dei Bram Stoker Awards 2021

La Horror Writers Association (HWA) ha annunciato i vincitori dei Bram Stoker Awards per l’horror e il dark fantasy. Qui sotto l’elenco completo.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Winner: Stephen Graham Jones – My Heart is a Chainsaw (Gallery/Saga Press)

Also nominated:

• Castro, V. – The Queen of the Cicadas (Flame Tree Press)
• Hendrix, Grady – The Final Girl Support Group (Berkley)
• Pelayo, Cynthia – Children of Chicago (Agora Books)
• Wendig, Chuck – The Book of Accidents (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Winner: Hailey Piper – Queen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)

Also nominated:

• Martinez, S. Alessandro – Helminth (Omnium Gatherum)
• McQueen, LaTanya – When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial)
• Miles, Terry – Rabbits (Del Rey)
• Quigley, Lisa – The Forest (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
• Willson, Nicole – Tidepool (The Parliament House)

*Due to a tie in fifth place, there are six nominees in this category.

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Winner: Erica Waters – The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)

Also nominated:

• Blake, Kendare – All These Bodies (Quill Tree Books)
• Boyle, R.L. – The Book of the Baku (Titan Books )
• Lewis, Jessica – Bad Witch Burning (Delacorte Press)
• Sutherland, Krystal – House of Hollow (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Winner: Alessandro Manzetti (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (author and artist) – The
Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)

Also nominated:

• Ahmed, Saladin (author) and Kivelä, Sami (artist) – Abbott 1973 (BOOM! Studios)
• Garcia, Kami (author); Suayan, Mico (artist); Badower, Jason (artist); and Mayhew, Mike (artist) – Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (DC Comics)
• Morrison, Grant (author); Child, Alex (author); and Franquiz, Naomi (artist) – Proctor Valley Road (BOOM! Studios)
• Panosian, Dan (author) and Ignazzi, Marianna (artist) – An Unkindness of Ravens(BOOM Studios)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Winner: Jeff Strand – “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice) (Independently
published)
Also nominated:

• Castro, V. – Goddess of Filth (Creature Publishing, LLC)
• Khaw, Cassandra – Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire)
• LaRocca, Eric – Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Weirdpunk Books)
• Piper, Hailey – “Recitation of the First Feeding” (Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy) (The Seventh Terrace)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Winner: Lee Murray – “Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming
Press)

Also nominated:

• Gyzander, Carol – “The Yellow Crown” (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign) (Hippocampus Press)
• O’Quinn, Cindy – “A Gathering at the Mountain” (The Bad Book) (Bleeding Edge Books)
• Taborska, Anna -“Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail” (Terror Tales of the ScottishLowlands) (Telos Publishing)
• Ward, Kyla Lee – “A Whisper in the Death Pit” (Weirdbook #44) (Wildside Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Winner: Gemma Files – In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)

Also nominated:

• Fracassi, Philip – Beneath a Pale Sky (Lethe Press)
• Maberry, Jonathan – Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead (WordFire Press LLC)
• Tuttle, Lisa – The Dead Hours of Night (Valancourt Books)
• Wise, A.C. – The Ghost Sequences (Undertow Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Winner: Mike Flanagan; James Flanagan; and Jeff Howard – Midnight Mass, Season 1,
Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” (Intrepid Pictures)

Also nominated:

• Chaisson, C. Henry; Antosca, Nick; and Cooper, Scott – Antlers (Searchlight Pictures)
• Dong-hyuk, Hwang – Squid Game, Season 1, Episode 1: “Red Light, Green Light” (Siren Pictures)
• Graziadei, Phil and Janiak, Leigh – Fear Street: Part One – 1994 (Chernin Entertainment)
• Peele, Jordan; Rosenfeld, Win; and DaCosta, Nia – Candyman (Universal Pictures)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Winner: Ellen Datlow – When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson(Titan
Books)

Also nominated:

• Chambers, James – Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign(Hippocampus Press)
• French, Aaron J. and Landry, Jess – There is No Death, There are No Dead (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Guignard, Eric J. – Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (Dark Moon Books)
• Johnson, Eugene – Attack From the 80’s (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Winner: Michael Knost – Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)

Also nominated:

• Olson, Danel – 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels (Lexington Books)
• Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew and Hansen, Regina M. – Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema (Fordham University Press)
• Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters(Reaktion Books)
• Woofter, Kristopher – Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

Winner: Angela Yuriko Smith – “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call,
Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)

Also nominated:

• Ognjanović, Dejan – “The Three Paradigms of Horror” (Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2) (Grimscribe Press)
• O’Quinn, Cindy – “One and Done” (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology) (Brigids Gate Press)
• Verona, Emily Ruth – “A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood” (thefinalgirls.co.uk)
• Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Winner: Christina Sng; Angela Yuriko Smith; Lee Murray; and Geneve Flynn – Tortured
Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)

Also nominated:

• Lansdale, Joe R. – Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations (Independent Legions Publishing)
• McHugh, Jessica – Strange Nests (Apokrupha)
• Simon, Marge and Turzillo, Mary – Victims (Weasel Press)
• Snyder, Lucy A. – Exposed Nerves (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

HWA Liftetime Achievement Awards: Nancy Holder, Koji Suzuki and Jo Fletcher

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced this year’s Bram Stoker Awards® winners at its first in person ceremony since 2019 during StokerCon™ at Denver, Colorado’s Curtis Hotel. The full list is above.

I Ragni Zingari di Nicola Lombardi per Tartarus Press

Segnaliamo il volume The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror (I ragni zingari) di Nicola Lombardi, per la casa editrice Tartarus Press, con la traduzione in inglese di J. Weintraub, che ha firmato anche l’introduzione del volume.

L’antologia contiene nove racconti horror, focalizzati sul concetto di alienazione, identità e trauma, ed è stata originariamente pubblicata nel 2010, vincendo il Premio Polidori nel 2013.

Il volume è disponibile a questo link.

 

Tartarus Press has published The Gipsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror, a collection by the Italian writer Nicola Lombardi with the original title I Ragni Zingari. The collection was first published in 2010 and it won in 2013 the Premio Polidori. The volume was translated in English by J. Weintraub, who wrote also the introduction.

Annunciati i vincitori degli Stoker Awards

La Horror Writers Association ha annunciato ieri, 22 maggio, i vincitori dei Bram Stoker Awards durante la cerimonia in live streaming della StokerCon 2021, con più di 300 spettatori.

Qui di seguito la lista dei vincitori.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Jones, Stephen Graham – The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Knight, EV – The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Holder, Nancy (author), Di Francia, Chiara (artist), and Woo, Amelia (artist) – Mary Shelley Presents (Kymera Press)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Cesare, Adam – Clown in a Cornfield (HarperTeen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Jones, Stephen Graham – Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Malerman, Josh – “One Last Transformation” (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors) (Written Backwards)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Murray, Lee – Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Whannell, Leigh – The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Sng, Christina – A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Murray, Lee and Flynn, Geneve – Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Waggoner, Tim – Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Waggoner, Tim – “Speaking of Horror” (The Writer)

HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION SPECIALTY AND SERVICE AWARDS

Horror Writers Association Specialty Award for Publishing

The award recognizes a publisher outside the mainstream New York City publishing community that specializes in dark-themed fiction.

• Crystal Lake Publishing

Horror Writers Association Mentor of the Year

HWA presents the award “in recognition of a member who distinguishes herself in helping mentees, while serving in the HWA’s Mentor Program.”

• Angela Yuiko Smith

Horror Writers Association Silver Hammer Award

HWA presents the Silver Hammer Award in recognition of extraordinary volunteerism by a member who dedicates valuable time and effort to the organization. The award is determined by HWA’s Board of Trustees.

• Carina Bissett
• Brian W. Matthews

Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Carol J. Clover
• Jewell Gomez
• Marge Simons

Richard Laymon President’s Award

Named in honor of Richard Laymon, who died in 2001 while serving as the HWA’s President. It is given by the HWA’s sitting President to a volunteer who has served HWA in an especially exemplary manner and has shown extraordinary dedication to the organization.

• Becky Spratford

The Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award winners were announced May 22 during Virtual StokerCon 2021’s livestream ceremony, with over 300 viewers. See above the full list.

I migliori 150 libri horror!

È finalmente disponibile la Guida ai migliori 150 libri horror, a cura di Alessandro Manzetti, un vero e proprio vademecum che ripercorre la storia dell’horror, del dark fantasy e del weird attraverso le sue più significative pubblicazioni dal 1986 a oggi, con approfondite schede di lettura e analisi per ogni singola opera, con anche preziosi contributi di grandi autori, editor e critici internazionali quali Joe R. Lansdale, Richard C. Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp e tanti altri. Un’opera imperdibile per tutti gli appassionati.

Il volume, già uscito a inizio anno in edizione per collezionisti per Independent Legions, è ora disponibile edito da Cut-Up e può essere acquistato a questo link.

It is now available at this link I migliori 150 libri horror!, by Cut-up and edited by Alessandro Manzetti. The volume, already published by Independent Legions at the beginning of the year and now out-of-print, collects the best horror stories from 1986 until present time, with the collaboration of experts like Joe R. Lansdale, Richard C. Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp and more.

Le Visioni di Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison, con le sue storie tra fantascienza, horror e weird, è stato uno dei più talentuosi e importanti autori del fantastico del secondo dopoguerra.
A partire dal 9 marzo i lettori italiani potranno riscoprire la sua opera grazie al mastodontico volume della collana Draghi Mondadori (816 pagine), Visioni. I racconti, che raccoglie la quasi totalità dei racconti di Ellison pubblicati in Italia.

Il volume, che sarà disponibile in versione sia cartacea che digitale, è arricchito da un saggio di Sandro Pergameno e da un’appendice bibliografica, a cura di Andrea Vaccaro.

Mondadori will publish on March 9th a new volume in the series Draghi, Visioni. I racconti, with all the short stories by Harlan Ellison published in Italy. The big volume, available in paper and digital edition, contains also an essay by Sandro Pergameno and a detailed bibliography by Andrea Vaccaro.