Fabrizio Foni (Umbertide, 1980) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian and Member of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies at the University of Malta, with a specialisation in popular culture. His research interests include horror, thriller, and science fiction, the adventure novels by Emilio Salgari and his followers, comic-book series, 1960s and 1970s Italian Gothic cinema, as well as the multifaceted fictional representations of sideshows and freaks. He co-authored the most comprehensive annotated bibliography of criticism on the Fantastic in Italian literature.
