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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Well, I can't afford to attend the Italian science fiction, horror & fantasy book fairs and conventions, but at least one of my book covers is on display... stranimondi.it

Publisher vendor table at an Italian book fair.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

I don't have anything new to post, so... Here's some old stuff: "H.P. Lovecraft and Friends. Unpublished pictures from the Miskatonic University Archives." #lovecraftian #cthulhu #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I remember with fondness and nostalgia my meeting with Roland C. Wagner, in 2002, at an Italian convention. He bought an inflatable plastic Godzilla at a local fair and carried it around all day, tied to a string like a leash, even bringing it to the panel table where he was participating.

Roland C. Wagner and his Godzilla on a leash, at the “Il Futuro in Gioco” gaming and science fiction convention in Milan, Italy, in December 2002.
Roland C. Wagner bought an inflatable plastic Godzilla at a local fair and carried it around all day, tied to a string like a leash, even bringing it to the panel table where he was participating.

Roland C. Wagner, me, and his Godzilla on a leash, at the “Il Futuro in Gioco” gaming and science fiction convention in Milan, Italy, in December 2002.
Roland C. Wagner bought an inflatable plastic Godzilla at a local fair and carried it around all day, tied to a string like a leash, even bringing it to the panel table where he was participating.

Godzilla and I, reading the convention program, at the “Il Futuro in Gioco” gaming and science fiction convention in Milan, Italy, in December 2002.

My art exhibition at the “Il Futuro in Gioco” gaming and science fiction convention in Milan, Italy, in December 2002.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

“Caduto per la libertà senza sbocco”. “He died for a freedom with no way out.” (Context in ALT text)

"Caduto per la libertà senza sbocco".
Photo of a marble plaque bearing the name of a street in Genoa, Italy. Beneath the name of the partisan after whom the street is named, the words “Fallen for freedom” are inscribed, and someone has handwritten “no way out” to indicate that the street is a dead end. This, however, gives rise to the surreal phrase “He died for a freedom with no way out.”

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm finally a published poet! 😁 Oh, well, no—it's just my response in rhyme to the question "Why do you like Strani Aeoni?" posed to contributors of the Italian publishing and writing group of the same name, all compiled into an ebook. straniaeoni.blogspot.com/2026/10/cozy...

Dall'alveo mio sommerso
nel mare da milioni
d'anni, il mio sonno è perso.
Né morte né stagioni,
né afflato mai diverso
d'astri o rivoluzioni
d'orbite a un sole avverso
placaron mie pulsioni,
la sete mia attraverso
sogni di libagioni
di umane menti, a un sorso
svuotate di ragioni
e senno, in un perverso
brindisi alle abiezioni
di un più folle universo.
Per tali e altre questioni,
dichiaro incontroverso,
mi piace "Strani Aeoni"
ché alla follia è converso.

From my riverbed, submerged
in the sea for millions
of years, my sleep is lost.
Neither death nor seasons,
nor any ever-changing inspiration
from stars or the revolutions
of orbits around an adverse sun
have appeased my urges;
my thirst, through
dreams of libations
from human minds—emptied, in a single gulp,
of reason and sense—in a perverse
toast to the abject depths
of a madder universe.
For these and other reasons,
I declare without dispute
that I like “Strani Aeoni”
because it is devoted to madness.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

"You can really find just about anything on Tatooine." And... Yep, I'm still playing with toy soldiers. #cthulhu #darthvader This pewter plaque was included in the limited edition of a Lovecraftian double CD, few years ago, from Black Widow Records: in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.com/2023/06/il-s...

Photo: A close-up of my pewter plaque depicting Cthulhu emerging from R'lyeh, placed on a light brown cloth to simulate a desert background. Standing in front of the base of the bas-relief are commercial HO-scale painted toy figures of Darth Vader and two Imperial Stormtroopers.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

"C'è grossa crisi". Sorry, only Italians will get this.

Photomontage: a scene from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but with the wooden, nail-studded idol of “Quelo” in place of the monolith, surrounded by prehistoric ape-men. Quelo is the idol of a pseudo-religion promoted by an unlikely guru, a television character created by Italian comedian Corrado Guzzanti in the late 1990s. “There’s a major crisis” was his catchphrase.
Fotomontaggio: scena da "2001: Odissea nello spazio" ma con l'idolo di legno e chiodi di "Quelo" al posto del monolite circondato da preistorici uomini-scimmia.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

These are short stories, anecdotes, and reflections written in the form of letters—sometimes ironic, sometimes moralizing. In fact, there is little of interest, but the little book is fascinating because of its relative age!

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

The oldest book on my bookshelf is this curious Italian volume from 1751, which I found for just a few euros at a flea market a quarter of a century ago.

Lettere critiche, giocose, morali, scientifiche ed erudite, alla moda e secondo il gusto del secolo presente, del conte Agostino Santi Puppieni, ovvero dell’avvocato Giuseppe Antonio Costantini. Tomo Quarto. In Venezia, MDCCLI.
Book frontispiece. Critical Letters: Playful, Moral, Scientific, and Erudite, in the Fashion and Taste of the Present Century, by Count Agostino Santi Puppieni, or rather, by Attorney Giuseppe Antonio Costantini. Volume Four. Venice, 1751.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

October 12 will mark the birth anniversary of uncle Edward Alexander “Aleister” Crowley. A pictoresque character that I don’t like at all, but back then I still created one of my photo-montages of him—featuring one of my sculptures, as usual—which was published in the ebook “The Weirdles.”

Black-and-white photo-montage: a young Aleister Crowley crouched in an armchair, with a notebook on his lap. To the right behind him stands a human statue with a snail’s head divided into two protrusions, its arms positioned in the obscene gesture known as the “bras d’honneur.” In the background is a dark stone wall with mysterious inscriptions carved into and around a bas-relief circle.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite human beings in this solar system. ❤️🐙

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

They're still using my illustrations and passing them off as "real" hidden archaeological discoveries, even though my signature is right there on the side, and even though users comment that they're my works (though they're convinced I created them in 1929🙄). This story will never end.

Screenshot from Instagram: one of my Lovecraftian photo-montages with "this was never meant to be found" written on it, posted as "real" for gullible readers.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

“We were taught to feel wonder toward those who steal bread; now we know that it is a crime not to steal when you are hungry.” These are lyrics from an Italian song by Fabrizio de André ("Nella mia ora di libertà" in Storia di un impiegato, 1973)...

Wall graffiti in Genoa old town alley: "ci hanno insegnato la meraviglia verso la gente che ruba il pane, ora sappiamo che è un delitto il non rubare quando si ha fame'.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Just found this, a survived piece of juvenilia. Watercolor and Rotring Rapidograph ink pen on now-yellowed drawing paper, probably dating back to the mid-1980s... I stopped drawing altogether at the end of that decade.

A watercolor and ink drawing on a white background, depicting a group of tall, slender obelisks rising above stylized, foaming waves.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was a child, whenever they took me to the public gardens, I expected to see Rover emerge from the Art Nouveau fountain in the center of the plaza while everyone around me stood motionless.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

"Posting a vampire who isn't Dracula."

Giulio Andreotti ritratto come vampiro da Tullio Pericoli sulla copertina di Linus, novembre 1976. "Italiani, ancora un sacrificio!"

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

"A room with a view." Digital photomontage and frame-by-frame animation, featuring the silhouette of one of my Cthulhu sculptures. #lovecraftian #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks, everyone! 🙏 Still no charity food package, but I bought a stash of pasta, oil, tomato sauce, & canned beans. In the meantime, I was working on yet another silly animation, but I won't have time to finish it tonight.

Screenshot from a graphic work in progress, with a person silhouette against a night city window.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

HO scale toy soldiers; modified plastic model kits; sand from the beach; pieces of rock; distant, out-of-focus lights at the end of a dark hallway... Some of my very old slide prints from the mid-1980s.

HO scale toy astronauts photographed against the light on a backdrop of sand and a small piece of rock, with a distant, blurred light in the darkness to simulate the sun on a Lunar landscape.

A modified model tank with a missile launcher, photographed against the light on a surface of sand and a small piece of rock, with a distant, blurred light in the darkness to simulate the sun on a Lunar landscape.

A modified model tank with a turret, photographed on a surface of sand and a small piece of rock, with a distant, blurred light in the darkness to simulate the sun on a Lunar landscape.

A glimpse of a scale model of the Cylon base from “Battlestar Galactica,” photographed with raking light, with a distant, blurred light in the darkness to simulate the sun in outer space.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

"Surrounding the head is a series of tentacles. The lizard does not have the tentacles, this being a feature of the octopus; and this (...) results in a composite creature which might better be described as a mythical monster." It sounds like #Cthulhu, but it comes from a 1907 archaeological text...

A page from a book featuring a reproduction of an archaeological artifact: an incomplete slab depicting a mythological creature with the body of a lizard and the head of an octopus. From "The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador. A Preliminary Report" by Marshall H. Saville, Columbia University, New York, 1907.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, 1936." Digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian bas-reliefs, and frame-by-frame animation. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

"Miskatonic University Field Research, Central Europe, 1936." Digital photo-montage with one of my Lovecraftian bas-reliefs. #lovecraft #cthulhu #weird

Five men in muddy work clothes pose on either side of a stele depicting Cthulhu emerging from R'lyeh. The upright stele is propped at the bottom by a short pole and chained to a winch attached to a structure of rough wooden poles that holds it aloft in the center of an excavation, surrounded by piles of turned-over earth, shovels, and other work tools. Behind a hedge, beyond the nearby trees in the background, the walls and roof of a building that could be a church are visible.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

"Introduce yourself with four starships."

USSC Discovery, from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Scout ship Dark Star, from John Carpenter's Dark Star.

USS Swinetrek, from Pigs in Space, on The Muppet Show.

Heart of Gold, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Justin Geoffrey (1898-1926). American poet who wrote the collection "The People of the Monolith" (1926). While travelling in Europe in 1921-22, Geoffrey made a stop at a village in Hungary called Stregoicavar, that is believed to have affected him greatly. He vanished after his return to the States.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, sure... All my videos are AI slop, including the ones I uploaded on YouTube a whopping 18 years ago! 🙄

Screenshot from a comment on YouTube, saying "Your entire channel is AI slop."

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

"A fall sunset on Kadath." Digital photomontages and frame-by-frame animation, featuring my Cthulhu sculptures. #lovecraftian #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

"Many of the artifacts brought back by the 1930–31 Pabodie Antarctic Expedition are still awaiting cataloging in the storage facilities at Miskatonic University." Antarctic Find #1, sandstone bas-relief, cm. 30x20(x2). #weird #lovecraftian #atthemountainsofmadness

An irregular slab of grayish stone, carved in bas-relief with the figure of an “Elder One” alien from H.P. Lovecraft’s "At the Mountains of Madness"—a creature with a barrel-shaped body and a large, star-shaped head. The figure is surrounded by inscriptions carved in indecipherable symbols. Uh... I'm sorry, but it's not an alien artifact: I carved it out of a slab of sandstone paving stone twenty-five years ago.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

This will go online next Friday. It didn't turn out quite as I'd hoped, but on this old laptop, just being able to brew a 30-second animation is already quite an achievement.

Screenshot from a video editing software. A displayed frame depicts a sunset viewed through a large Gothic window, with the silhouette of a woman looking out from inside at a massive, tentacled creature floating against the sunlight.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

"My great-grandfather and relatives in Innsmouth, around 1900." Digital photomontage and frame-by-frame animation, featuring one of my Cthulhu sculptures. And, for the record, the man on the right really is my maternal great-grandfather, pictured here with his brother & cousins. #lovecraftian #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming soon to a screen near you. It's great when you find a mistake after everything is already done in one of your next animations, and you have to reassemble all 450 frames from scratch...

Screenshot: Image processing using graphics software. The image being processed depicts a sunset viewed through a large Gothic window, with the silhouette of a woman looking out from inside at a massive, tentacled creature floating against the sunlight.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

For the record, my obsession with Lovecraftian photomontages—which has lasted for over a quarter of a century now—is entirely due to Mr. J.K. Potter and his cover art for Heavy Metal (October 1979, special issue dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft).

A traditional photomontage by J.K. Potter, in black and white with a blue tint, featuring an ornamental frame. It is a portrait of H.P. Lovecraft standing with a book in his left hand, with an alien being to his left — a tall creature with a starfish-shaped head —, both set against a rocky, otherworldly background under a dark and starry sky.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

When you have almost nothing left to eat, and you make some fake bread in a pan with water, flour, salt, and baking soda. Out of money, and no idea when the September charity food package will arrive.

Dough spread out in a pan on a kitchen table. Around it are a jar of flour, a plate, and other containers with salt, etc.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Over the past month, between heatwaves and depression I’ve done practically nothing. And without internet, for the little I did I had to draw on pics from my own archives. So, those featured in my last animation are actually my maternal great-grandparents, photographed in Pittsburgh, maybe in 1900.

A sepia-toned photograph from the early 1900s, framed within an oval, portraying a married couple: he is wearing a formal suit and sitting on a chair; she is standing to his right in a white dress, with one hand resting on his arm.

Photo-montage on a sepia-toned photograph from the early 1900s, framed within an oval, portraying a married couple: he is wearing a formal suit and sitting on a chair; she is standing to his right in a white dress, with one hand resting on his arm. Instead of a head, the man has a gelatinous mass of tentacles.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

"My great-grandparents in Innsmouth, about 1900." Digital photomontage and frame-by-frame animation, featuring one of my Cthulhu sculptures. And, for the record, the two people in the original photo really are my maternal great-grandparents. #lovecraftian #weird

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

An urban wild boar tries to cool off in the last remaining pool of water in the dried-up Bisagno Creek in downtown Genoa, Italy, during a heat wave in last August.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

I have books signed by the greatest Weird Fiction authors of all time!

frontispiece of Laird Barron's collection Occultation and Other Stories, Night Shade Books

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

It was on display, along with other autographs by classic authors of the Weird genre, at my art exhibition during the first edition of 'Strani Mondi' convention in Milan, Italy, in 2015.

A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Revised Standard Edition of 1881, Albert Harkness – New York, Appleton and Company, 1889
H.P. Lovecraft’s personal copy, signed with address, on display at an exhibition.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Bout of depression, so I'm posting one of my treasures. Rationally I know I should sell it, but that would be like waving the white flag and giving up on life. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, 1889. Lovecraft’s personal copy, signed, including tiny paper bookmarks with his handwriting.

Tiny paper bookmarks with Lovecraft's handwriting in pencil (front view), inserted in his personal copy of "A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges" – Revised Standard Edition of 1881, Albert Harkness – New York, Appleton and Company, 1889.

Tiny paper bookmarks with Lovecraft's handwriting in pencil (back view), inserted in his personal copy of "A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges" – Revised Standard Edition of 1881, Albert Harkness – New York, Appleton and Company, 1889.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, MARVEL, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Drop something AQUATIC 🌊⛵️🖤🦑🦈

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