Sargeant_Fox
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Luigi Musolino is an Italian writer; he was born in 1982, in Pinerolo, a town in the region of Turin.
In Italy he's achieved commercial and critical success as the author of fantasy, horror and weird stories.
He's translated authors such as Brian Keene and Lisa Mannetti. In 2008 he edited and translated two Carl Jacobi short-stories anthologies for the Italian horror publisher Dagon Press. He's also collaborated in a Dagon Press magazine, Studi Lovecraftiani, devoted to essays on Lovecraft.
Musolino self-published his first story collection in 2012, Bialere: Storie da Idrasca. (Idrasca is the town he lives in.) By then he was already known within horror circles. Years before he had started sending stories to literary prizes. In 2010 and 2012 he earned first place in the annual RiLL Trophy. RiLL is short for "Riflessi di Luce Lunare", Reflection of Lunar Light. As an associated devoted to fostering fantasy and horror in Italy, RiLL has been publishing the winners since 1994.
In 2014 and 2015 RiLL published his story collections, Oscure Regioni vols. 1 and 2. As he explained in an interview, his goal was to write one story based on a folktale from each region of Italy, with a horror twist.
In 2016 he won the Hypnos prize for best horror/fantasy story. The prize was annually given between 2013 and 2023.
Other short fiction titles include: Nelle Crepe, (2017), Uironda, (2018) and the novella Pupille, (2021) His first novel came out in 2019: Eredità di Carne.
In 2022 he published another story collection, Un buio diverso: Voci dai Necromilius. In 2023 Valancourt Books borrowed this title for its translation of Musolino: A Different Darkness and Other Abominations; but from what I gather the US edition is a miscellany of stories culled from several of his books.
Is anyone reading him?
In Italy he's achieved commercial and critical success as the author of fantasy, horror and weird stories.
He's translated authors such as Brian Keene and Lisa Mannetti. In 2008 he edited and translated two Carl Jacobi short-stories anthologies for the Italian horror publisher Dagon Press. He's also collaborated in a Dagon Press magazine, Studi Lovecraftiani, devoted to essays on Lovecraft.
Musolino self-published his first story collection in 2012, Bialere: Storie da Idrasca. (Idrasca is the town he lives in.) By then he was already known within horror circles. Years before he had started sending stories to literary prizes. In 2010 and 2012 he earned first place in the annual RiLL Trophy. RiLL is short for "Riflessi di Luce Lunare", Reflection of Lunar Light. As an associated devoted to fostering fantasy and horror in Italy, RiLL has been publishing the winners since 1994.
In 2014 and 2015 RiLL published his story collections, Oscure Regioni vols. 1 and 2. As he explained in an interview, his goal was to write one story based on a folktale from each region of Italy, with a horror twist.
In 2016 he won the Hypnos prize for best horror/fantasy story. The prize was annually given between 2013 and 2023.
Other short fiction titles include: Nelle Crepe, (2017), Uironda, (2018) and the novella Pupille, (2021) His first novel came out in 2019: Eredità di Carne.
In 2022 he published another story collection, Un buio diverso: Voci dai Necromilius. In 2023 Valancourt Books borrowed this title for its translation of Musolino: A Different Darkness and Other Abominations; but from what I gather the US edition is a miscellany of stories culled from several of his books.
Is anyone reading him?