Background
Ethnicity:
William Gagliani's father, Gilberto Gagliani, was an Italian.
William Gagliani was born in 1962, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States.
Madison, WI 53706, United States
William D. Gagliani graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, earning the Master of Arts in 1986.
Gagliani was awarded the Darrell Award from Memphis Science-Fiction Association in 1999, for the short story Until Hell Calls Our Names.
Rhonda Wilson presents his books.
William Gagliani with Rhonda Wilson, an interviewer.
(Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Wri...)
Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Writers Association include Stephen King's "Autopsy Room Four"; Richard Christian Matheson's "Please Help Me"; and Charles Grant's "Haunted."
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Blochs-Psychos-Bloch/dp/0671885987?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0671885987
1997
(A bloodthirsty serial killer is leaving a gruesome trail ...)
A bloodthirsty serial killer is leaving a gruesome trail of victims, and it's up to Lupo to track him down and stop the slaughter. Wolf's Trap is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated first book of the savage series of horror about Nick Lupo, the werewolf-cop. These "North Woods Noirs" are set mostly in the wilds of Northern Wisconsin, where werewolf legends abound and the moon paints the treetops silver.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Trap-W-D-Gagliani/dp/0843957026?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0843957026
2006
(There's something terrible happening near the resort town...)
There's something terrible happening near the resort town of Eagle River, Wisconsin. Some people are afraid there's a wild animal on the loose, savagely tearing its victims apart. Others, like Nick Lupo, know better. Lupo knows a werewolf attack when he sees one. He should, since he's a werewolf himself, though he's been able to control his urges and maintain his secret for years now. He's also a homicide cop, so it may be up to him to hunt down one of his own kind. It looks like there's a new werewolf in town, a rogue out only for blood. But looks can be deceiving. And it's only the beginning of Nick's problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Gambit-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B002Q1YEBM?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B002Q1YEBM
2009
(The animal attacks in Wausau, Wisconsin, remind Nick Lupo...)
The animal attacks in Wausau, Wisconsin, remind Nick Lupo of werewolf attacks. He should know. Homicide cop - and a werewolf - Nick Lupo has battled other werewolves before, killers who unlike Nick have no problem hunting human prey. So when a new series of savage animal attacks terrifies the area, Nick already has a suspect in mind. And he knows that if he's right it'll be up to him to destroy her.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Bluff-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B003YJF0GI?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003YJF0GI
2010
(A huge collection of dark fantasy, horror, crime, and thr...)
A huge collection of dark fantasy, horror, crime, and thriller stories by W.D. Gagliani, the author of Wolf's Trap, Wolf's Gambit, Wolf's Bluff, and Savage Nights.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadowplays-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B0041VYJNI?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0041VYJNI
2010
(Mysteries & Mayhem collects four previously published sto...)
Mysteries & Mayhem collects four previously published stories and two new tales from the collaborative team of David Benton and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author W.D. Gagliani. Bonus Material in this collection includes Icewall by W. D. Gagliani, Corrupting the Monkeys by David Benton, and After The Fifth Step by John Everson - all of which are stunning in their own right, and a wonderful addition to an already stellar collection of shorts.
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Mayhem-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B004PLO96Q?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004PLO96Q
2011
(When Susan and Artie Blanchard move up to the luxury clas...)
When Susan and Artie Blanchard move up to the luxury classic Manhattan apartment, their old and cramped walk-up seems a distant memory. Despite Artie's misgivings, Susan's in love with the place. And Mark, the building super, is so nice... And that wonderful elevator! And how Susan loves being inside the car, and how sexy she suddenly feels... She doesn't even know, what can possibly be wrong with this beautiful old building and why is Mark so helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/Mood-Elevator-David-Benton-ebook/dp/B004V4A2OA?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004V4A2OA
2011
(It's December 23 in the North Woods, and an Alberta Clipp...)
It's December 23 in the North Woods, and an Alberta Clipper is dumping a foot of snow across a wide band. Carl and Lynn are driving north to spend Christmas at a romantic lodge, where Carl plans to pop the question and present a ring. But the blizzard proves too much, and they seek shelter in a closed-up cabin, a place which Carl thinks might still manage to be romantic… But dark shapes in the woods have been shadowing their car, and when the lovers break into the cabin to wait out the storm, the howling begins.
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Wolf-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B006O3MN0M?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B006O3MN0M
2011
(Nick Lupo is a homicide cop with a difference. He's a wer...)
Nick Lupo is a homicide cop with a difference. He's a werewolf. He's worked hard to control his condition, but it isn't easy to contain the beast inside him. It also means he has some very powerful enemies. Wolfpaw Security Services is a mercenary organization that wants Lupo dead. They want to infiltrate the US military with their own werewolves and they can't let anyone - especially a fellow-werewolf like Lupo - stand in their way.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Edge-W-D-Gagliani/dp/1609286685?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1609286685
2012
(Since "God's Wrath," which is what some called the apocal...)
Since "God's Wrath," which is what some called the apocalypse that brought the dead back to life to feast on the living, he has been living in a fortified cabin in the North Woods of Wisconsin. He has cleared his area of walkers ruthlessly. He was once a person who helped others until he became a killer by necessity. But now his routine has slipped and he finds himself unprepared when a group of walkers crosses his path.
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Zombie-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B00AS37LQU?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AS37LQU
2012
(It's almost Christmas, 1972. Danny and his folks brave a ...)
It's almost Christmas, 1972. Danny and his folks brave a near-blizzard to drive to a department store in Racine, Wisconsin, where he hopes to connect with a coveted Mego Batman and Robin action set... but instead, something strange happens. His father is developing one of his typical rages and the store shelves are empty of every toy Danny would like, but that's not all... a bullying security guard and voices in his head change Danny this day - and "The Christmas Mummy" will change him forever.
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Mummy-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B00HHC34SE?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00HHC34SE
2013
(In the seedy world of cockfighting, blade-enhanced winner...)
In the seedy world of cockfighting, blade-enhanced winners slash their way to temporary victory while the losers end up in barrels to be fried and eaten. Nate's usual hard luck changes when "Graken" comes along. Graken is a strange creature who thrives on the fighting and never, ever loses. Now Nate and his new partner Jerry travel the cockfight circuit with the unbeatable beast, happy to let Graken show them the good times. But good times always have to end.
https://www.amazon.com/Starbird-Short-Story-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B00GXO07I2/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(It's Christmas, and Erika is alone for the first time aft...)
It's Christmas, and Erika is alone for the first time after the death of her partner. Feeling vulnerable and melancholy, she has chosen a new beginning by spending her holidays at a ski resort. But Aspen is for couples and threesomes, and Erika feels left out and lonely. Until she meets Stewart, a mysterious stranger who pretends not to be as lonely and despondent as she. Though cautious, she finds herself intrigued by this impossibly handsome stranger.
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Vampire-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B00RDGFTEQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00RDGFTEQ
2014
(He kills with a crossbow. His targets are Milwaukee, casi...)
He kills with a crossbow. His targets are Milwaukee, casino employees. Local media labels him The Archer, and homicide detectives Nick Lupo and Rich DiSanto catch the case. Nick Lupo became a werewolf when he was a teenager, but slowly his lonely world has opened up to include the lovely North Woods reservation doctor Jessie Hawkins. And he had finally begun to shed the results of a terrible condition that brought pain - and even death - to people he loved when the Wolfpaw mercenaries proved he wasn't the only werewolf.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Deal-Nick-Lupo-Novella/dp/1796690864?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1796690864
2015
(Nothing's more dangerous than a wounded wolf. Injured by ...)
Nothing's more dangerous than a wounded wolf. Injured by an explosion, homicide detective Nick Lupo should heal right up... because he is a werewolf. But something keeps him from shifting into wolf form, making him unable to heal. New Mafia boss Joe Rabbioso is after Lupo, seeking his very brutal form of revenge, and he thinks he has Lupo on the ropes.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Blind-W-D-Gagliani/dp/1619231174?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1619231174
2015
(The call came in the middle of the night. Rich Brant was ...)
The call came in the middle of the night. Rich Brant was just sweating through another Vietnam nightmare when the phone rang. Kidnapped from a busy mall, Brant’s beloved 19-year old niece is in a world of trouble. Hard-nosed inquiries suggest that she has been snatched for auction by the international sexual slavery ring run by the ruthless Goran, also known as The Serb. Kit’s final destination: a modern harem, a brothel, a dungeon, or one of the Serb's kinky slavery clubs. Or worse.
https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Nights-W-D-Gagliani-ebook/dp/B06XWWZHCY?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XWWZHCY
2017
(Playboy lady-killer, lover, assassin, almost immortal, Be...)
Playboy lady-killer, lover, assassin, almost immortal, Betrayer… if the shadowy Vatican Secret Service used the double-0 tag, he would be 008. This century he’s just known as Simon Pound. But Simon has a secret - he is Judas Iscariot, who made a certain Deal right after putting the rope around his own neck.
https://www.amazon.com/JUDAS-HIT-W-D-Gagliani/dp/1794133380?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1794133380
2018
(Recipe for a Satanic panic - take a medium-sized cult and...)
Recipe for a Satanic panic - take a medium-sized cult and their best demonic summoning. Mix with a dash of strange psychic powers. Generously add murderous reanimated corpses, inbred cannibal rednecks, sex-starved half-naked coeds, horny football players, and a surprise creature or two. Sprinkle in a fancy log cabin mansion, a labyrinthine set of tunnels, and a secret ritual chamber. Stir. Bake on high at 666 degrees. You know it’s gonna be one killer party.
https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Lake-David-Benton-ebook/dp/B07WMTXFSG?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07WMTXFSG
2019
(Nick Lupo: A cop, a werewolf... and a target. Homicide de...)
Nick Lupo: A cop, a werewolf... and a target. Homicide detective- and werewolf - Nick Lupo is hoping to finally have a chance to focus his attentions on the woman he loves, instead of the Wolfpaw mercenary werewolves who tried so hard to kill him. Lupo survived that battle - barely - and brought down Wolfpaw. But Wolfpaw was backed by a super-secret group within the Pentagon whose sinister plan is already in motion. And a new enemy has set its sights on the local casino.
https://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Cut-W-D-Gagliani/dp/161921816X?SubscriptionId=AKIAJWNFJNNO7OPFABDQ&tag=speculativefic05&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=161921816X
Ethnicity:
William Gagliani's father, Gilberto Gagliani, was an Italian.
William Gagliani was born in 1962, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States.
William D. Gagliani graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, earning the Master of Arts in English in 1986.
While Gagliani's short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies over the years, his first novel was published in 2003. The Wolf's Trap book deals with a blend of traditional and Native American lycanthrope mythology and focuses on the story of a werewolf who roams the streets of Milwaukee and the city's northern countryside. The two main characters are Nick Lupo, a tough Milwaukee cop who is also a werewolf, and Martin Stewart, a serial killer who has come to Milwaukee seeking revenge on Lupo, who Stewart thinks killed his sister. Because Stewart is psychotic, simply destroying Lupo is not enough. Instead, Stewart intends to play cat-and-mouse with the detective, murdering a good friend and others before kidnapping a woman Lupo loves in order to lure the detective into the woods for a final showdown. In an article on CNN.com, James Arsendeli recommended that readers "tear into Gagliani's first novel, calling it a hirsute werewolf story that will grab you by the reading jugular and keep you clawing the pages until the story's exciting conclusion." Argendeli, however, warned that the book is not for the young "due to some R-rated adult themes."
(Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Wri...)
1997(Since "God's Wrath," which is what some called the apocal...)
2012(Mysteries & Mayhem collects four previously published sto...)
2011(In the seedy world of cockfighting, blade-enhanced winner...)
2014(Playboy lady-killer, lover, assassin, almost immortal, Be...)
2018(When Susan and Artie Blanchard move up to the luxury clas...)
2011(A bloodthirsty serial killer is leaving a gruesome trail ...)
2006(It's December 23 in the North Woods, and an Alberta Clipp...)
2011(Recipe for a Satanic panic - take a medium-sized cult and...)
2019(It's Christmas, and Erika is alone for the first time aft...)
2014(There's something terrible happening near the resort town...)
2009(The animal attacks in Wausau, Wisconsin, remind Nick Lupo...)
2010(A huge collection of dark fantasy, horror, crime, and thr...)
2010(Nick Lupo is a homicide cop with a difference. He's a wer...)
2012(Nothing's more dangerous than a wounded wolf. Injured by ...)
2015(The call came in the middle of the night. Rich Brant was ...)
2017(Nick Lupo: A cop, a werewolf... and a target. Homicide de...)
(It's almost Christmas, 1972. Danny and his folks brave a ...)
2013(He kills with a crossbow. His targets are Milwaukee, casi...)
2015(a)
2012Horror and dark fantasy writer William D. Gagliani says, that he prefers writing short stories exploring the dark side of human nature. On his Home Page, it is noted that he always appreciated the more visceral approach to storytelling. Gagliani also added that he likes his supernatural streak of books, but it's possible to create horror without the supernatural aspect.
Gagliani says, that as a child, growing up in Italy, his father's seafaring life opened his eyes to knowledge of the world that he would not get otherwise. Father brought back tales and toys, souvenirs and photographs that piqued Gagliani's interest in exploration and adventure. Also, the boy began reading early, before the age of four, and by the time he turned seven, William was a life-long fan of Jules Verne and his brand of an adventure story. Eventually, more modern science fiction captured boy's interest, but even now he has a soft spot for the kind of grand adventure Verne wrote.
Later, the Universal monster-movies made an impact on William - chief among them Dracula, The Wolf-Man, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. By 1976 he had certainly read his share of adventurous fiction. Favorites were the works of Ian Fleming, Alistair MacLean, Duncan Kyle, Harry Patterson, and Desmond Bagley, among others. On television, Gagliani steeped himself in Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Night Gallery, The Twilight Zone, Ghost Story, and every horror-tinged Movie of the Week he managed to watch. Then a stranger by the name of Stephen King came along, and William read Salem's Lot during a dark and dreary winter and it scared him thoroughly - yet he couldn't get enough. Gagliani had always written short stories in school, some of them so well-received that they were read aloud.
In the Eighties, Gagliani read works by more visceral writers of horror such as Richard Laymon, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, as well as quieter purveyors of the fantastic such as Charles L. Grant, Peter Straub, Matthew J. Costello, and Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho. He also read a great number of mysteries and crime tales, including works by Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake and many other authors in the noir universe. William Gagliani found that he preferred his mysteries as dark as possible. He says, "From the visceral group, however, I learned that horror doesn't have to be supernatural. That we are most afraid of pain and bodily harm, and that evil seems to manifest itself not so much through so-called monsters, but through the monstrous characteristics of other humans: serial killers, mass murderers, abusive relatives, murderous neighbors, and even playground bullies. The ‘crossroads' for all these elements is what interests me most, and what I try to write about most."
Like most horror writers, Gagliani hopes his work will terrify. He hopes readers will be taken aback by some of what he writes because the author doesn't believe art should be safe. He wants readers to find themselves thinking about deeper themes, about motivation, and about the dark side within them, to realize that we all have a capacity for evil and hatred, for causing others pain, and to explore the reasons human cruelty exists.
Quotations: "Partly, the realization that true horror can be the fact that your neighbor is Jeffrey Dahmer. We horror writers don't have to make up that much stuff anymore - it’s all out there."