FREE Online Book Launch with J. Weintraub, Translator of CLUB MAGRITTE

Join us for a free online book launch celebration with translator J. Weintraub, who will read from Nicola Lombardi's new horror novella CLUB MAGRITTE.

Event Details:

DATE: December 1, 2025

TIME: 6:00pm CST

LOCATION: Online via Zoom (Registration Required)

Club Magritte
by Nicola Lombardi
Translated by J. Weintraub

Debts must be paid, in one way or another . . . Mauro should never have played poker with the Duke, and he should not have lost. And now, even though he hasn’t the money to pay, he has to honor his debt or face terrible consequences. Fortunately, there’s Club Magritte, whose wealthy members are eager to lend a hand to anyone willing to participate in their diabolical pleasures. And so, for Mauro, the inexorable descent into blood and horror begins.

About the Translator
J. Weintraub has published fiction, essays, and poetry in all sorts of literary places and his plays have been produced throughout the USA and internationally. As a translator he has introduced the Italian and Swiss horror writers, Nicola Lombardi and Davide Staffiero, to the English-speaking world, and his annotated translation of Eugène Briffault’s Paris à table: 1846 was published by Oxford UP in 2018. His collection of speculative fiction, A Visit to the Catacombs, is scheduled for publication in 2026. More at https://jweintraub.weebly.com/

About the Author
Nicola Lombardi, an active participant in the Horror Writers Association, has published in Italy the novels The Gypsy Spiders, Black Mother, Night Calls, The Red Bed, The Tank, Strigarium, and The Engraver, as well as seven collections of stories. In addition, he has published novelizations from the films of Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso and Suspiria) and translated works by Jack Ketchum, Seabury Quinn, and many others for the Italian market. In 2021, Tartarus Press published his collection The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror (“Lombardi maintains a nervy, churning atmosphere, keeping readers just off-balance enough to let the big beats feel shocking and subversive. . . . Lombardi has a knack for writing endings that linger. Lovers of postwar narratives and surrealist horror won’t want to miss this.” --Publishers Weekly}. Full bibliography at www.nicolalombardi.com.

“An expert connoisseur of literary and cinematic horror, Nicola Lombardi is one of the most highly regarded and talented writers of contemporary horror, capable of probing the darkest recesses of the human soul through a lens--at the same time both true and distorting--as only the finest writers know how to do.” —Guida ai narratori italiani del fantastico (Odoya Editore, 2018)

“Nicola knows how to spread his magic to any reader thanks to an impressive elegance, a grace worthy of high literature, chiseling supernatural horrors with perfect and clean language.” —Paolo Di Orazio