ð GialloLunaNeroNotte – 23rd Edition
Wednesday, October 22, 5:30 PM – Teatro Rasi
At the heart of the Ravenna Nightmare Festival returns GialloLunaNeroNotte, the historic literary showcase dedicated to the worlds of mystery and noir.
This year’s featured guest is La Bottega dell’Invisibile, a publishing house and bookstore based in Forlimpopoli that for over ten years has given voice to dark, horrific, and quirky stories that escape the mainstream market.
An editorial project born from a passion for out-of-the-ordinary storytelling — spanning novels, graphic novels, essays, and illustrated books — where each title is carefully selected to illuminate new literary universes.
ð Among its standout publications is Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom, an artist and illustrator known for his distinctive dark fantasy style.
La Bottega is also a vibrant community, thanks to the Cult Book Club, where readers gather monthly to share the magic (and darkness) of books.
An unmissable event for those who love the mysterious side of the written word.
Thursday, October 23, 6:00 PM – Teatro Rasi
Stories come to life on the Ravenna Nightmare stage with authors “from these lands,” three distinct voices united by a shared passion for mystery, memory, and the darkness of reality.
ðĶī Gianluca Gualducci – With Il vizio del lupo (The Wolf’s Vice, Piemme, 2025), he makes his debut in mystery fiction: a novel born from a life spent in communication, business, and a deep curiosity about the human soul. An author who has transformed his thirst for reading and observation into vivid, unsettling writing.
ðĐïļ Monica Manganelli – Architect, set designer, and digital artist, she enters fiction with Il suono dell’anima (The Sound of the Soul, IR-Independent Revolution), a crime novel set in Turin that weaves together art, introspection, and mystery. A visionary work already selected at the MIA Market in Rome for potential film adaptation.
ð Fabio Mongardi – From Faenza, author and playwright, brings to the festival Dove finisce il mare (Where the Sea Ends, Morellini, 2025), a noir set in a decaying Rimini. A story dense with shadows and melancholy, penned by one of the most intense voices in contemporary Romagna literature.
Three different paths, three sensibilities, one shared desire to tell the invisible hidden behind reality.
Friday, October 24, 6:00 PM – Teatro Rasi
Thirty Years of the Alligator. A conversation with Massimo Carlotto (A esequie avvenute, Einaudi)
Massimo Carlotto
Born in Padua in 1956, Massimo Carlotto was discovered by writer and critic Grazia Cherchi. He debuted in 1995 with the novel Il fuggiasco (The Fugitive), published by Edizioni E/O and winner of the 1996 Premio del Giovedì. For the same publisher, he wrote Arrivederci amore, ciao (Goodbye Love, Goodbye), which placed second at the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France in 2003 and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in its English edition by Europa Editions in 2006. This novel introduced the character Giorgio Pellegrini.
He also wrote La verità dell’Alligatore (The Alligator’s Truth), which launched the series featuring Marco Buratti, nicknamed the Alligator, spanning twelve novels.
Other notable titles include:
For Einaudi Stile Libero, he published:
For Rizzoli, he published Il Turista (The Tourist) and Sbirre (Cops) with Giancarlo De Cataldo and Maurizio de Giovanni.
His books have been translated into many languages and have won numerous awards both in Italy and abroad. Massimo Carlotto is also a playwright, screenwriter, and collaborator with newspapers, magazines, and musicians.
Saturday, October 25, 6:00 PM – Teatro Rasi
Graphic Journalism: A Conversation with GIANLUCA COSTANTINI
Gianluca Costantini
Born in Ravenna in 1971, Gianluca Costantini is an activist artist who has been fighting his battles through drawing for years. He was accused of terrorism by the Turkish government and stirred controversy among French readers with a short comic about the story of the “Charlie Hebdo” terrorists. He actively collaborates with organizations such as ActionAid, Amnesty International, SOS Méditerranée, ARCI, and Emergency. His illustrations have narrated the HRW Film Festival in London, New York, and Toronto; the FIFDH Human Rights Festival in Geneva; the Human Rights Festival in Milan; and the Internazionale Festival in Ferrara.
From 2016 to 2019, he illustrated the activities of DiEM25 – Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, founded by Yanis Varoufakis, and he collaborates online with artist Ai Weiwei.
In 2017, he was nominated for the European Citizenship Awards. In 2019, he received Amnesty International’s “Art and Human Rights” award.
He has published comic stories in both Italian and international magazines and collaborates with American news platforms such as CNN, Words Without Borders, and Muftah Magazine; with the UK’s The New Arab and the Netherlands’ Drawing the Times; and in Italy with ilPOST, Focus, and Graphic News. His illustrations have appeared in newspapers across Italy, Germany, Turkey, Australia, and Hong Kong.
His most recent books include Patrick Zaki, an Egyptian Story (Feltrinelli), Libya (Mondadori), Fedele alla linea, Pasolini’s Secret Diary, Pertini Among the Clouds, Goodbye Berlinguer, Dinner with Gramsci, Julian Assange: From Hacker Ethics to Wikileaks (Becco Giallo Editions), Bad Habits, The Istanbul Tamer, Bronson Drawings (GIUDA Editions), Slaughterhouse Workshop (Eris Edizioni), and The Scars Between My Teeth (NdA).
