About the Author

I was born and raised in Italy, where a technical-scientific education ran parallel to a lifelong obsession with nature, folklore, and the darker currents of mythology. That collision between the rational and the mythological became the engine of everything I write.

My work sits at the intersection of cosmic horror, literary fiction, and historical darkness; stories shaped by the weight of memory, the persistence of the past, and the unseen forces that move beneath ordinary life. I am drawn to the places where history and myth converge, and where consciousness itself becomes the most dangerous territory of all. I currently live and teach in California, where the fog off the Pacific and the layered history of the American West continue to feed my imagination in ways I did not anticipate when I left Italy.

My debut novel, A Dark Unraveling, is a cosmic horror literary thriller spanning three worlds: 1895 Abyssinia, the 16th-century Portuguese Inquisition, and present-day San Francisco. It follows a constellation of souls reincarnating across centuries, each bound to an artifact of terrifying power, each hunted by ancient forces that regard human consciousness as disposable. The book was previously published in Italy by a brick-and-mortar publisher and is now available in English on Amazon. I write for readers who believe the past is not dead but a living shadow walking beside us. For readers who have gazed into an abyss and kept watching.

If that is you, I invite you to join me in this strange voyage.

Claudio Tronconi