Il colombre

Il colombre is a 1966 short story collection by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The titular story introduces a sea monster called the colomber, which became the most famous of Buzzati's monster characters.
Stories.
"Viaggio agli inferni del secolo"
Publication.
The collection was published in Italy in 1966 through Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. It has not been published in English in its entirety, but some of the stories, including "Colomber", have been translated by Lawrence Venuti and appear in the 1984 volume "Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati".