Andrea Carlo Cappi, born in Milan, 1964, has been living between Italy and Spain since 1973. Complete bibliography in italian here.
As a writer in Italy he's the author of nearly one hundred titles (novels, short story collections and non-fiction), plus dozens of still uncollected short stories. His works of fiction include:
-the interconnected thriller/spy/noir series Nightshade and Medina, Agente Nightshade and Sickrose, Toni Black and Dark Duet, all part of the same universe, named "Kverse", currently 32 books and 12 ebooks
-the erotic horror/urban-fantasy vampire series Danse Macabre, currently consisting in two novels and a couple of short stories
-eleven original sci-fi/fantasy/thriller tie-in novels - one of them winning in 2018 the Premio Italia for best Italian fantasy nove - based on the comics series Martin Mystère (created in 1982 by the late Alfredo Castelli) for which he also wrote four episodes
-caper original tie-in novels and film novelizations, currently seven books, based on the comics series Diabolik (created in 1962 by the late Angela & Luciana Giussani), to which he regularly contributes with non-fiction material in special issues.
-the sexy/sci-fi/noir LUV and the sexy/noir short story collection Neri amori, both co-authored with Ermione
-the historical mystery novels Il Visconte/La spia del Risorgimento in 19th century Italy (written with Paolo Brera) and Il ponte sospeso, set in Rome between 1864 and 1964.
Between 1998 and 2008 he was chief editor of Italian mystery magazines "G-La Rivista del Giallo" (1998-1999) and "M-Rivista del Mistero" (2000-2008); since 2025 he has recreated the latter as the collection of anthologies "M-Rivista del Mistero presenta", which he personally edits.
Editor of the ebook series Spy Game-Storie della Guerra Fredda and several anthologies, in 1995 he edited the very first all-Italian anthology of short stories published by Italy's leading mystery book collection "Il Giallo Mondadori" (created in 1929), which was instrumental in convincing readers that a whole new generation of mystery writers existed in Italy..
He's also known as a translator from Spanish (works by Pedro Casals, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, Matilde Asensi, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and many others) and English (works by Francis Marion Crawford, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Fleming, Donald E. Westlake, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Raymond Benson, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Jeffery Deaver and many, many others).
In 2025 he co-edited with Mario Gazzola and Roberta Guardascione, and co-wrote in a team of 10 authors, the anthology/novel "Fantasmi di oggi e leggende nere dell'età moderna", tie-in to Dario Argento's 1975 movie "Profondo rosso".
He co-wrote the RAI radio series Mata Hari and hosted various radio and tv shows, and hundreds of literary events; in october 2003 he devised, along with the staff of FNAC Italia, the still unmatched biggest mystery writers event in Italy: one whole month in five different cities (Milan, Turin, Verona, Genoa and Naples), personally hosting many of the meetings.
He's a member of IAMTW, World SF Italia, Associazione Culturale Andrea G. Pinketts, devoted to the works of the late eponymous Italian writer. In 2025 he personally acquired the rights to all works by another late writer, Stefano Di Marino, in order to publish both his huge backlist and a few unpublished novels.
Since 2020 he presides over the jury of the Torre Crawford literary award, inspired by Italian-born American writer Francis Marion Crawford. He's also in the jury of the Stefano Di Marino-Segretissimo award and the Michele Serio award.
Find him on
Europulp (blog in English)
Il Rifugio dei Peccatori (blog in Italian)
Borderfiction Zone (blog in Italian)
Kverse - Il mondo thriller di Andrea Carlo Cappi (blog in Italian)
A. C. Cappi - Photo by Alberto Aliverti
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