Zombi Ferox - A sick italian tale of living dead among dying women

By Piero Galli

“A sick Italian tale of living dead among dying women”, first (but not last) horror novel from the master of trash Italian cinematography Piero Galli. A story that was born and died in bleak pubs and old cemeteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Centro Culturale 999
• Release date: Mar 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835396475

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Piero Galli

Zombi Ferox

A sick italian tale of living dead among dying women

Originally published as

ZOMBI FEROX

Translated from the Italian by

Claudia Foletti

English Edition

Sara Dalena, Simone Agnetti

First English E-book Edition Italy, march 2020

Print English Edition Italy, march 2020

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION

AN ITALIAN SONG

NIGHT AT THE ALLIGATOR CLUB

EROS AND THANATOS

LIVING DEAD

DOOR-TO-DOOR VIOLENCE

ZOMBI FEROX: TWO MORE EXAMPLES

SOIL SPECIMENS

HUMAN ZOMBIEFICATION PROCESS

UNTHINKABLE CONSEQUENCES

To you

INTRODUCTION

I started writing this first (and perhaps last) novel of mine in order not to confine in my unreliable memory the plot for a film that had been crossing my mind for some time.

Many people and many occurrences have since influenced my very first idea (perhaps first thought in 2001), changing, even drastically, the whole story. Several practical problems, especially related to technology, caused me to give up, at least temporarily, on the realisation of my amateur film (the trailer of which, by Michele Tinti, who's also to be credited for the title, won the 2001 edition of the Festival Intercomunale Cinema Amatoriale, Brescia, Italy) and to move everything on paper, or better, on a PC monitor. Between these lines a lot of my cinematic production can be seen, also a lot of my passion for cinematic productions and, of course, a lot of me. I tried writing with spontaneity and levity everything the inspiration of the moment brought me. I worked in the same way I shoot my amateur films, focusing on the content rather than on the form. I sincerely hope I achieved something acceptable for everybody and, above all, something entertaining. I wish for my reader not to get bored, not to waste their time and to enjoy this book as it is, without too many expectations.

Piero Galli

AN ITALIAN SONG

Her thin T-shirt

so tight, to the point that I was imagining everything

and her childlike vibe,

I never told her it drove me crazy.

And clear summer nights, the sea, the games, the fairies

and the fear and desire to be naked,

a kiss on salty lips, a bonfire, a few chuckles

and making love down by the lighthouse.

I really love you, I swear I love you, I love you, I love you truly...

And she

she looked at me with suspicion,

then she smiled and held onto me so tightly.

And I

I never understood anything

but I see now and I can’t get it out of my mind

that she was...

A little big love

just a little big love

nothing more than this, nothing more

I miss her to death

I miss her little big love

now that I know what to say

now that I know what to do

now that I want a little big love.

That strange walk of hers

that I’d have recognized anywhere.

She used to tell me you're a hopeless case

but I never believed it.

And long breathless races towards fallen stars

and hands ever more eager for forbidden things

and the songs we shouted off-key to the sky up there.

Whoever reaches that wall first

I'm not sure if I really love you,

I’m not, I'm not sure...

And she

stopped talking all of a sudden

but I could clearly see the pain on her face.

And I

I don’t know for how long she cried

And only now am I realizing

that she, she was...

a little big love

just a little big love

nothing more than this, nothing more

I miss her to death

I miss her little big love

now that I know what to say

now that I know what to do

now that I want a little big love.

[1] This little big love, famous Italian melodic song by Claudio Baglioni, 1972.

NIGHT AT THE ALLIGATOR CLUB

I will be the one to tell you this story, for in my life I have conducted thousands of lab exams without ever being shocked by finding the most monstrous viruses in the most unbelievable places. And yet, in this case, I was shocked indeed, in the silence of my night shift, inside the walls of the laboratory, bent over a weird soil specimen. Well, I should probably begin telling you how everything unfolded.

Antonio Grigi, Tony for his friends, was getting ready for his usual night out, usual for a small-town guy of his age, lacking energy to invest, ideas to put into practice and money to waste in clever activities. He planned on taking his father’s car, which was much more spacious than his, so to pick up a willing girl in his favourite cheap disco club and, with her consent, drive her to a suitably secluded place, somewhere to hook up unbothered and protected, perfectly safe from any risk of getting any illness. For this very reason, in the afternoon he had driven for twenty kilometres just to buy a condom box from a loyal friend of his, who in turn had gotten it from a cousin, in a supermarket in the nearby town. What can I say? Tony was