Stefano Fantelli
Stefano Fantelli, writer and screenwriter, is considered one of the most famous and original contemporary Italian authors of the dark and new weird genre. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, he has published more than twenty books including novels, short story collections and graphic novels.
Creator and screenwriter of the El Brujo series, co-creator and screenwriter of the comic series The Cannibal Family and Blood Brothers, he has collaborated with several titles, including Splatter, L’Intrepido and Fumo di China, and has written the scripts for the entire new Zora the Vampire series.
He is the translator of The Apache Sorcerer, one of the most recent books published in Italy by the Texan writer Joe Lansdale.
In English for the American market, he has published the graphic novel The Sixt Sentinel, written with the well-known American author Poppy Z. Brite and Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions Publishing, 2023).
In March 2024 he held a screenwriting internship at the University of Florence, as part of the course Science, Literature and Pseudoscience by Professor Marco Ciardi.
He conceived and wrote the short film Muse Comes Home (Cronenter Films, 2024),directed by Claudio Chiaverotti.
Together with Carlo Lucarelli he wrote the graphic novel Julian (Cut-Up Publishing, 2024).
As an editor, he has edited a dozen volumes by Alfredo Castelli in recent years, including Van Helsing, Uncle Boris: The New (De)Generation, Illustrated Frankenstein and Docteur Mystère: The Two Doctors.
For some years he has been writing screenplays for the magazines Zagor and Dylan Dog of Sergio Bonelli Editore. For the Color Zagor The Lord of the Cemeteries (2023) received nominations for Best Screenwriter and Best Female Character at the Zagor Te Nay Forum Zagor Oscars. The special issue of Zagor 2024, “The Monster Maker”, written by him and drawn by Marcello Mangiantini, is currently on newsstands.
Nothing is known about what he keeps buried in the garden.