Acquisition announcement
Nightgrave acquires Tampa Italiano.
Brandon Burnside’s transatlantic folk-horror novel joins the Nightgrave Originals production slate.
Nightgrave Publishing has added Tampa Italiano: Welcome Home, Family, a complete 85,948-word novel by Brandon Burnside, to its in-house production slate. The book will be developed as a Nightgrave Originals edition for future publication through Amazon.
The story begins with Natalie Harrow, a forty-eight-year-old adopted Floridian whose free ancestry test leads her from the Tampa Italiano Language & Heritage Center to a family reunion in Canepina, Italy. The welcome gives her everything she thought she wanted—until the village’s hospitality reveals the machinery beneath it.
“The family she spent a lifetime searching for has been waiting for her.”
Blending folk horror, cult horror, and dark suspense, the novel turns genealogy, cultural longing, and the language of homecoming into a story about a transatlantic network that knows exactly how much people will risk to belong.