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After the announcement of Felicia Kingsley’s presence at the festival last June, the program, dedicated to those pop worlds of literature that go beyond the classic label of "fantasy", is enriched with other Italian and international names.

Among the most acclaimed Italian authors of recent times, Hazel Riley comes for the first time at Lucca Comics & Games, with her Game of Gods – discesa agli inferi, first came out on Wattpad and then was published by Sperling & Kupfer, which continued the saga. The author will be present at the festival from November 1^st to 3^rd for meetings, including the dialogue with The Daphne Library, and moments of singing with the public. 

For Il Castoro OFF, the new fantastic fiction label of the comic publishing house, A.B. Poranek will meet fans of his novel Where the Dark Stands Still (La foresta dell’amore eterno). The author will be in Lucca from November 1^st to 3^rd. Always for the OFF series, continues the saga The Hidden Society of the Archer sisters with the second volume Abissi e incanto, dedicated to Ella Archer who will be at the festival in dialogue with Carmelo Romano.

For the debut of Rizzoli’s new series Daphne’s library, the American author Penn Cole will be present at the festival to talk about the new novel Glow of the Everflame, which follows Spark of the Everflame released in April 2024. Cole will be in Lucca from November 1^st to 3^rd.  Meetings with the author are for Friday, November 1^st at 4:45 PM at the Auditorium Fondazione Banca Del Monte di Lucca, in dialogue with Megi Bulla, and Saturday, November 2^nd at 2:15 PM, at the same auditorium, where Cole will confront with A.B Paranek and Valentina Ghetti.