The Beauty of Death 2: Editors' Choice Award Winner: Nicola Lombardi

We're pleased to announce the winner of The Beauty of Death 2 - Death by Water Editors' Choice Award, selected by editors Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renée Lester: NICOLA LOMBARDI, with his story 'Even the Stars Fall'

NICOLA LOMBARDI is a horror writer, editor, and translator. Among his publications in Italian: I racconti della Piccola Bottega degli Orrori, La fiera della paura, Striges, I ragni zingari, La notte chiama (with Luigi Boccia), Madre Nera, La Cisterna, Pallide streghe d’autunno. In addition, he has published two novelizations from Dario Argento’s movies Profondo Rosso and Suspiria. Among his publications in English: the novel The Tank and the short stories “Tests of Courage” (in Disturbed Digest #10), “Sand Castle” (in Play Things & Past Times), “Hungry Shadows” (in Disturbed Digest #9), and “Professor Aligi’s Puppets” (in The Beauty of Death volume 1). His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies.
He translated into Italian the H.P. Lovecraft biography Dreamer on the Nightside by F.B. Long and, for Independent Legions, the collection Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob and the novel Mister Suicide by Nicole Cushing. He’s a Horror Writers Association active member and lives in Ferrara, Italy. Website: www.nicolalombardi.com  

Congratulations to Nicola Lombardi, his story  'Even the Stars Fall' will be fully podcasted shortly on our forthcoming Podcast platform Cemetery Pod.

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