They might only be discovered during a [very secluded] themed event.

Primarily distributed by hand during get-togethers with other DED players, “Spell Book’ was also distributed by Tempi Futuri, a comic book shop in Florence that is no longer in business, or by Games Center in Turin, and Stratelibri the long standing Italian publisher of role-playing and table-top games. The small format, A5, is full of content drawn with extreme meticulous lines and graphics, and reveals a microcosm of topics, ranging from miniature colouring courses, to articles on hallucinogens in the Fantasy world, the creation of new, alternative monsters to outmoded dragons and goblins, and columns on botany and fantastic herbal medicine. It included graphic craziness, news, reviews, and, above all, DARK FLAVE the epic serial campaign for ADD [Advanced Dungeons & Dragons] and D8D, ‘among the most famous and beautiful that have ever been created on our planet’.

The zine sprang from an idea by the brothers Marco and Nicola Serpieri [respectively known as BONDY DONDY and Nicolotti] with Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini [il Pancia]. From the first issue on, Roberto Gigli [Rog], an expert miniature colors, Beniamino Sidoti [VORKO], and David Vaggelli, i.e. AMA Corporation completed the editorial team. Stapled in the certa and printed on recycled paper in a very amateur printing house, it came out with the first 3 issues, later collected in a book-let with a yellow cover, in 1987-88. Two more issues followed in 88, two in 1989, and a last double issue, no. 9-10, with a colour printed cover and in LP format, in 1990. From the few dozen copies of the first issue, it quickly grew into the hundreds in the subsequent issues.

Among the pages of issue no. 1-2-3, we encounter, promoted in a little square, the name of Dissonanza Assoluta a Florentine magazine of literature, poetry, and more: Solving the mystery, this was another zine created by AMA Corporation.

A note from the authors: ‘The fanzine lasted as long as the group played DSD, so Spell Book is truly a genuine zine, made by players for players’.

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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Il barone rampante

Italo Calvino

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

The Little Prince

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Il fiore perduto dello sciamano di K

Davide Morosinotto

Terra!

Stefano Benni

The Thief Lord

Cornelia Funke

Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

The lifters

Dave Eggers

Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J. K. Rowling

The color of magic

Terry Pratchett

The last dragon

Silvna De Mari

Agatha & Sherlock

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Don Quixote

Cervantes

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

A.s.s.a.s.s.i.n.a.t.i.o.n.

Guido Sgardoli

The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd

Men of Maize

Miguel Angel Asturias

Fuga da Magopoli

Enzo Fileno Carabba

The Lord of the flies

William Golding

The goldfish boy

Lisa Thompson

Someone to Run With

David Grossman

La luna è dei lupi

Giuseppe Festa

Petrademone

Manlio Castagna

The Master and Margarita

Michail Bulgakov

Where the world ends

Geraldine McCaughrean

And then there where none

Agatha Christie

Lilli De Libris e la biblioteca magica

Jostein Gaarder – Klaus Hagerup

Howl’s moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones

Roger Akroyd

Agatha Christie

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Momo

Michael Ende

La bottega battibaleno

P.D. Baccalario

Il segreto del bosco vecchio

Dino Buzzati

L’enigma del solitario

Jostein Gaarder

The magic flute

Shikaneder – Mozart

Faust

J. W. Goethe

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