Fabio Calabrese
Esce in questi giorni la prima antologia di racconti edita dalla Dagon Press. Si tratta di dodici storie d’ispirazione lovecraftiana dello scrittore triestino Fabio Calabrese, un nome ben noto alla comunità italiana degli appassionati di letteratura fantastica, e di H. P. Lovecraft in particolare. Ricordiamo che Calabrese già nel 1975 aveva contribuito a dare vita, insieme a Giuseppe Lippi, alla mitica fanzine del fantastico “Il Re in Giallo”, di cui ancora oggi sono oggetti di culto i due numeri monografici dedicati allo scrittore di Providence. Suoi racconti e saggi sono apparsi in un gran numero di pubblicazioni amatoriali e professionali, tra cui: Universo and Surroundings (Garzanti, 1978), Italy Planet (Perseus Books, 1989), The Heirs of Cthulhu (Solfanelli, 1990), Strange Days (Urania Mondadori, 1998), If Italy .. . (Vallecchi, 2005). While essayist, some of his writings on HPL (of which he is an expert and longtime scholar) appeared on "Yorick", "Star" (the Special Lovecraft, 1980), and in the series "The Cthulhu Mythos" of Fanucci. Of particular rilevenza is his essay "The Narrative of the Cosmic Mystery", a kind of manifesto of "cosmic horror" Lovecraftian in Italy. Calabrese has finally published in 2005, at the Perseus Books anthology Eyes Silver , where they collected his tales of science fiction. This is the first complete collection of his stories in the vein "Lovecraftian", for the most part unpublished, written over thirty years, we strongly request a collection, called, and wanted. A book that has already to his credit a small record: it is the first Lovecraftian anthology coming out in Italy dedicated to a single author! A real must, therefore, for collectors and book lovers of the Bard of Providence.
The stories included are:
"Being from the Deep ... A dark experiment, which aims to reverse the cycle of existence, reveals a further dimension that regurgitates an unspeakable horror ...
" Shadow from the Past" ... A Wallbrough Manor, gloomy mansion surrounded by perpetual fog, a ancient atavistic hatred awaken a curse ...
"The House on the Hill " ... In his villa dr. Fargo hides a dark secret. What relationship can there be between his curious library of arcane tomes and differing shades that move stealthily in the night ...?
" Island Dionysus " ... A naufrago scopre a sue spese il connubio tra gli antichi miti e una terribile divinità adorata dagli abitanti di un’isolotto sperduto…
“ La Statuetta di Malachite "… Il manoscritto di un uomo scomparso, rinvenuto tra le sue carte, rivela la storia di una terribile metamorfosi legata a una bizzarra statuetta verde…
“ Red Dugpa ”… Uno scienziato, una “camera di deprivazione” sensoriale costruita per sondare gli aspetti più bui e misteriosi dell’universo, e il Red Dugpa, una misteriosa droga sintetica il cui uso ha effetti imprevedibili…
“ Ring Out of Time "... Count Dracula prepares its umpteenth incarnation, getting ready to cross the ages. The Myth of Cthulhu merges with the Transylvanian Count of black ...
" Iblis " ... In the most remote places of ancient Sicily, William Marsh, a young scion of a family in New England around Europe to hunt for old legends, ancient ruins and dusty manuscripts in the libraries of ancient monasteries, he learns the importance of dark dreams, and their tangibility ...
" The House College Street " ... A Providence, from portions of Federal Hill, is an old house that is said to haunted by a dark presence. Decades after the events recounted in "The Denizen of the Dark" by HPL, there is still someone trying to learn their secrets ...
" In the Temple of Bokrug " ... A scholar of botany organizes an expedition to Borneo . In these dangerous and impenetrable tropical giugliano will find the remains of a temple dedicated to the worship of Bokrug millennium, the lizard-god. The expedition members will experience a terrifying experience, from which one can not return to the deranged mind ...
" The threshold "... The old abbey desecrated Compton Hill lies inside the portal to another dimension, and a world dominated by monstrous Aklo ...
" Principle of Induction "... Lost in a dimension dream, the protagonist faces, face against the tentacles, the horrible gods of the Cthulhu Mythos ...
forgotten ancient cults, ancestral curses, eons and countless universes, dreams that pierce the depths of space and time, gods and monstrous blasphemies, libraries banned tomes full of unmentionable. And again: prehumans abominations, temples lost in the dark jungles, cursed mansion in the dark moors or in inaccessible cliffs, the ruins of cyclopean non-Euclidean corners, remote islands inhabited by monstrous aberration, that wells regurgitate prehumans horrors, dark experiments aimed at discovering the secret of seniority, size and other dimensional dark chasms, drugs and wondrous balls of being prohibited ... These, and others, are the themes of the twelve stories collected in this book, drawing direct inspiration from inventions of Howard Phillips Lovecraft to update our times the "Mythology of Cthulhu", and reinterpret shaped with a unpublished scientific and philosophical vision that is embodied by the passions of the author.
As a special bonus and appendix, is added to tell a long afterword (" Lovecraft and I ") in which Calabrese recounts his adventure to Lovecraft, horror writer and reader, and tells "the stories behind the stories in this book. That, we point out, is printed in a limited number of copies, to enthusiasts and collectors, and is exclusive to Dagon Press.
print Details: Ed
Dagon Press, 2008
pp. 220 - 17.00 Euro
Printing: 6 "x 9", thermal binding, cream interior paper (60 # weight), ink for the interior B / W, white exterior paper (100 # weight), ink 's External in full color.
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