Thomas Piccirilli

Tom Piccirilli
Born May 27, 1965
Died July 11, 2015(2015-07-11) (aged 50)
Occupation writer
Nationality American
Period 19902015
Genre Poetry, Horror fiction, Fantasy, Crime fiction, Noir fiction, Hardboiled
Website
www.tompiccirilli.com

Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist and short story writer.[1]

Career

Piccirilli sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Some of his stories were included in Eden Studios' zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder.[2]:341

Awards

Piccirilli was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). He is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America, a final nominee for the Fantasy Award, and the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of "Best Poetry Collection".

Bibliography

Novels

Series

Felicity Grove series
  1. The Dead Past (Write Way, 1997)
  2. Sorrow's Crown (Write Way, 1998) ISBN 1-885173-53-9
Cold series
  1. The Cold Spot (Bantam, 2008) ISBN 0-553-59084-7
  2. The Coldest Mile (Bantam, 2009) ISBN 0-553-59085-5
  3. The Cold and the Dead (forthcoming tentative title)

Media tie-ins

Novellas

Collections and anthologies

Omnibus

Collections

"Neverdead"
"Bury St. Edmonds"
"Maleficia"
"Paindance"
"Eye-Biting and Other Displays of Affection"
"The Dog Syndrome"
"Fellowship"
"Where the Swamp Folk Go When the Need Comes"
"Hostages"
"Water Wears the Stones"
"Lilith at the Playground"
"The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair"
"The Whole Head is Sick, the Whole Heart Faint"
"This, and That's the End of It"
"New York Comes to the Desert"
"Sentry"
"At One Stride Comes the Dark"
"Her Child Arises"
"Come Back to Tell You All"
"Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crowd"
"Whisper, When You Drown"
"Souls, Written on the Flea"
"Twilight in the Room of Fathers"
"Horsepower"
"A square Wedge of Vanilla"
"Tracking the Death Angel"
"Those Vanished I Recognize"
"Mean Sheep" (poem)
"What You Leave Behind on the Side of Your Plate" (poem)
"In the Outrunning" (poem)
"A Lightning Sting on the Far Side of the Skull" (poem)
"How To Perform Heart Surgery With Someone Else's Gaze" (poem)
"When the First Lemming Drops" (poem)
"The Curve After Which the Engine Squeals" (poem)
"My Conscience Shattered by a Jittery Scrawl" (poem)
"Rye" (poem)
"Staring Into A Bitter Face I've Seen Before" (poem)
"The Living Room" (poem)
"Sylvia" (poem)
"Tragedy As You Like It" (poem)
"45 Seconds On Third Avenue and 8th Street" (poem)
"Another Man's October" (poem)
"Fellowship"
"Seems Like Old Times"
"Horsepower"
"Hostages"
"Inside the Works"
"Diamond Mozzarella"
"Black"

Anthologies edited

Anthologies containing stories by Tom Piccirilli

Non fiction

Awards

Won

Nominated

References

  1. "Tom Piccirilli (1965-2015)". Locus Magazine. July 2015.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.

See also

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