April 2010

Dark is available for purchase

Now you can buy my book "Tales from the Dark", from the publisher's site RUNDI Taarna:

http://www.rundetaarnedizioni.it/

STORIES DARK: Seven stories

poised between horror and noir. Seven encounters with death that occurs in various ways, stories that unfold between past, present and future, through the encounter with the older woman in the world, through a mysterious murderess in a night without lights of Milan.

To get to the story of three boys who, after having recorded the voices of departed souls unpleasant encounter surprises.

Because maybe just let the souls go to rest!

sadistic online surveys, an inspector witnessed his own death, songs that hide terrible premonitions and disturbing secrets hidden in the basement of a peaceful school.
Seven stories written by expert hands, giving rise to anxiety and palpitations in the best tradition of the classics of the genre

http://www.rundetaarnedizioni.it/978-88-6120-123-1.htm

DARK TALES due out in April End

. At the end of month will be released on my first book, Tales Dark.

Sometimes life holds for us the wonderful and unexpected surprises: One year ago I never imagined being able to say "my book will come ...", also because I had not written anything yet. I was thinking of situations, ideas, ideas taken from real situations experienced or dreams in the past, but I never had time (or desire) to put them in writing. I've always had a passion for literature and cinema Horror and I must say that lately I rarely ever feel fear when reading a book or watching a movie.

now be clear: I find that there is a huge difference between "scary" and "fear." The fright in a movie is simple enough to lead: with a seemingly quiet scene suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a monster or a murderess accompanied by loud music and here we are bouncing on the chair, maybe even a scream escapes, after two minutes but the effect is gone, and if we review this scene sometimes not frighten us because we already know what happens and is therefore less of surprise. It is more difficult to create that sense of anguish and terror that comes during the movie or reading a novel that remains even left the cinema after having closed the book. I'm talking about that shiver down your spine that can attack us when we find ourselves alone in the house, even in the dark of our bedroom, thinking back to a scene seen in a movie or read a book. Each has its own fears and weaknesses: I think that what scares us most are not incredible monsters with slimy tentacles and teeth ready to bite, but things that can happen in everyday life at home, the street or at any time. Personally I have always been fascinated, yet terrified by stories of spirits or entities that come back after death, often stories or films about ghosts have scared me more than those on improbable monsters hungry for human flesh.

The ideas I had in my mind could provoke that sense of fear I am talking about. One night about 13 months ago I happened to live one of those situations in which dreams are mixed with the half-sleep: my wife was out to dinner and I fell asleep in bed. I wanted to hear back and talk to her. When it really came home I woke up hearing noises from the hall, convinced that my wife was already in bed beside me and then thinking that there was someone else in the house. In the following days every time I think of what I had felt I was goose bumps: I have decided this novel a bit of 'what happened and write a short story. "The oldest woman in the world" is the first story I wrote and that opens my book. After writing it, I posted on some Internet forums and I immediately started to receive very positive feedback: that what made the players was one thing. Fear. For me it was a great pleasure: I had written with that goal and I was able to join in full.

So I decided to write the other ideas I had and I discovered the magic of writing: the simple ideas can easily become the stories, the characters came to life in my mind and I often found literally catapulted into reality that I was creating. Those who have read my stories is almost always left impressed: I was advised to try to subject them to any home publishing, and so I did. After less than three weeks I contact the RUNDI Taarna EDITIONS , intending to publish my stories in their series "Utopia 70". Speaking to the manager I was immediately in tune on what I think is important for a story "horror": the atmosphere, the tension, but mostly you feel that tingle thinking " could happen to me ..."