Stories by @lucabuccella

Anora (1944)

Anora, a young woman from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Five Came Back

Five Came Back explores the experiences of five U.S. film directors – John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens – and their frontline work during the Second World War.

The Piano Teacher

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Dracula (Miniseries)

The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of people led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

An American Werewolf in London

Two American backpackers from New York City, Dani Kessler and Jodie Goodman, are attacked by a strange beast in the Yorkshire moors. Dani is bitten and Jodie dies. Dani wakes up three weeks later in a hospital in London. She is told that she and Jodie were attacked by an escaped lunatic, but Dani insists they were attacked by some sort of rabid dog or wolf. An undead Jodie appears to Dani and explains the beast that attacked them was a werewolf, and reveals that Dani is now one. Jodie urges Dani to kill herself before the next full moon, not only because Jodie is cursed to linger undead for as long as the bloodline of the werewolf that attacked them survives, but also to prevent Dani from inflicting the same fate on anyone else. Upon her release from intensive care, Dani moves in with Alex Price, a male nurse who grew infatuated with her in the hospital. When the full moon rises, Dani painfully transforms from her human form into a werewolf. Dani, now in werewolf form, prowls the streets of London leaving a trail of dead people behind her. What is gonna take to stop her?

The Last of the Mohicans (2002)

Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.

The Betrothed

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters—the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister “Unnamed”—in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed‘s exploration of love, power, and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

During the year 1866, ships of various nationalities sight a mysterious sea monster, which, it is later suggested, might be a gigantic narwhal. The U.S. government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and the story's narrator, is in town at the time and receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition; he accepts. Canadian whaler and master harpooner Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful manservant Conseil are also among the participants. The expedition leaves Manhattan's 34th Street Pier aboard the United States Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln, then travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. After a five-month search ending off Japan, the frigate locates and attacks the monster, which damages the ship's rudder. The three protagonists are hurled into the sea and ultimately climb onto the monster, which, they are startled to find, is a futuristic submarine. They wait on the deck of the vessel until morning, when they are captured, hauled inside, and introduced to the submarine's mysterious constructor and commander, Captain Nemo.

Kushiel's Legacy - Starz Series

Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy... and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d'Ange, she has no choice. Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond. Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm's deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world.