Michele Serio (Naples, January 6, 1954 – Naples, October 24, 2021) was an Italian musician, writer and journalist. His novels have been translated and published in Spain, France, Greece and Germany.

Born in Naples, he began his career as a musician and composer. His album Amici, featuring the song La canzone di Antonellawas produced in 1982 by the band Il Giardino dei Semplici for the Panarecord/F1 Team label. He lived between Miseno and Bacoli for many years, and often recalled how stepping out onto his balcony to look at the sea inspired him while he was writing his first novel, "La Signora dei Lupi". “La Signora dei Lupi”.

Theater and Television
He staged seven works for the theater, some of which ran for years. Annella a Portacapuana was broadcast on Rai Uno on Easter Sunday as part of a program hosted by Raffaella Carrà. Fiaboplast won the Stregatto Prize for best children’s play, and in 1999 he wrote and produced the radio program Alla ricerca dell’identità perdutadevoted to Naples and its street stories. For television, he wrote and starred in ten TV films for Raisat Fiction’s series Napoli in giallo.

Writing
He made his debut as a novelist in 1991 with “La signora dei lupi”an erotic fantasy. In 1994 he published Pizzeria Inferno, a horror novel that became a cult book. Nero Metropolitano was singled out by Corriere della Sera as the best book of the year. In 2000 he published in the anthology Italia odiagathering the best of Italian noir, and in 2001 his short story La cagnetta won wide acclaim from critics and readers in France. In 2006 his novel La dote was named best book of the year from Campania.

In 2013, a new edition of Pizzeria Inferno was released, and that same year his short story Natale Trans appeared in the anthology Bel paesepublished in France. In 2014 came Così parlò il Mostro, a work centered on a monstrous character whose story continued on a blog. In 2015 he published San Gennaro made in Chinaa darkly comic noir introducing the character Gennaro Scognamiglio, who returned in the 2017 novel Giù le mani dal Vesuvioa major critical success.

In 2018 he published 365 ma non li dimostra, a poetry collection that invited comparisons with great Italian poets such as Luigi Pulci and Trilussa. In 2020 came out E tu di che congiuntivo sei?a new adventure featuring Gennaro Scognamiglio. On April 7, 2022, Colonnese Editore published Il Calcio e la Danza dei Sette Veli posthumously, a book exploring themes of sin and redemption.

In 2023, Homo Scrivens published the second edition of "Così parlò il Mostro"On November 29, 2024, at the Scuola Italiana di Comicswas presented the book Napoli stregatathat collects the restored pages of the comic Ugualeserialized in the newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno in 2001, together with the short story La casa stregata.