Venturini, Fred

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1980-    ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Threshold" (in Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror, anth 2010, edited by Cheryl Mullenax), and whose Young Adult first novel, The Samaritan (2011; vt The Heart Does Not Grow Back 2014), also makes use of Horror in SF tropes to give verisimilitude to the story of a highschool student with powers of Regeneration, which he learns to use for good (see Superheroes). [JC]

Fred Venturini

born Patoka, Illinois: 26 June 1980

works

• The Samaritan (Saint Louis, Missouri: Blank Slate Press, 2011) [hb/]
  • The Heart Does Not Grow Back (New York: Macmillan/Picador USA, 2014) [vt of the above: pb/]

links

• Fred Venturini
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

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