My Short Fiction
I have been publishing short stories since the 1990s.
Most have been published in Italian, but a few are in English.
Some of my influences are:
Dino Buzzati, Hayao Miyazaki, Italo Calvino, Federico Fellini, Patricia McKillip, Basile, Topor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Gilliam, Tanith Lee, Elena Ferrante, Ray Bradbury, Luigi Serafini, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Angela Carter, Ana Maria Matute, Carlo Gizburg, Stephen King, Ferlosio, Pirsig, Jeunet et Carò, R.W. Chambers, Guillelmo Del Toro, Lord Dunsany, David Lynch, François Schuiten, Eduardo De Filippo, Alcatena, Michael Ende, Jaco Van Doermel, Franz Kafka, Grant Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernesto De Martino, Susanna Clarke, Clive Barker, R. L. Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Luigi Pirandello, Simone Weil, Cronenberg, Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe, Darren Arnowskij,Julio Cortazar, Alan Moore, H.P. Lovecraft, Hope Mirrlees and Tiziano Sclavi.
A sample of my on line short stories
Kiss of the mouthless Girl, Nightmare [text + audio]
and a novella from Lucerìa *
The Dead Are Forever Thirsty, Betwixt
[* from the same world of The Secret Market]
