Paolo Di Orazio

PAOLO DI ORAZIO is an author of horror fiction and comics books, whose work has been published in Italian since 1987, including novels, short and long fiction, collections and scripts. In English he has published comics for Heavy Metal and short stories for the books Dark Gates (with Alessandro Manzetti; Kipple, 2014), My Early Crimes (Raven’s Headpress, 2015), and The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (with Alessandro Manzetti; Kipple, 2016). His short stories have also appeared in The Beauty of Death Vol. 1 (Independent Legions, 2016), The Beauty of Death Vol. 2 – Death by Water (Independent Legions, 2017) and Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2 (Comet Press, 2017). His short story Hell is in The Best Horror of the Year list by Ellen Datlow (2015). His first novel translated into English, Dark Mary, will be released in December 2018 from Independent Legions. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and lives in Rome, Italy.