Member Since: Aug. 12, 2010
5 users have added this author as a favorite.

Tom Piccirilli


Biography

Tom Piccirilli lives in Colorado, where, besides writing, he spends an inordinate amount of time watching trash cult films and reading Gold Medal classic noir and hardboiled novels. He's a fan of Asian cinema, especially horror movies, bullet ballet, pinky violence, and samurai flicks. He also likes walking his dogs around the neighborhood. Are you starting to get the hint that he doesn't have a particularly active social life? Well, to heck with you, buddy, yours isn't much better. Give him any static and he'll smack you in the mush, dig? Tom also enjoys making new friends. He is the author of twenty novels including The Coldest Mile, The Cold Spot, The Midnight Road, The Dead Letters, Headstone City, and A Choir of Ill Children, all published by Bantam/Random House. He's won the Bram Stoker and the International Thriller Writers Awards, and he's been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, and Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire. Learn more at: www.thecoldspot.blogspot.com

Where to find Tom Piccirilli online

Website: http://www.tompiccirilli.com
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://thecoldspot.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://tompiccirilli.com/BOOKS.htm

Books

Grave Men    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 54160 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 23, 2012. Fiction.
Five years ago, Priest McClaren and his younger sister, Molly, were forced to watch as their parents were murdered by a desperate pair of outlaws. Though one is dead, the other, Yuman Dean, is still on the loose. Now Molly is a haunted bounty hunter and all Priest wants is to run a little store with his partner, Lamarr, an ex-slave and ex-Union soldier. But it won't be that easy.
Thrust    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $0.99 USD. 36150 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 13, 2011. Fiction.
Chase is a performance poet with a history of mental illness who's spent time in jail and hospitals while trying to deal with traumas from his past. A cult figure in New York City, he's as well known for his mania as he is for his poetry. During a reading, Chase sees a woman he believed had died on the ward due to the cruelty of a brutal guard.
Pentacle - A Self Collection    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 53630 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on September 28, 2011. Fiction.
PENTACLE collects the classic tales of an unnamed Necromancer and his demonic familiar "Self" as they wander the spectral highways of America incurring the wrath of both heaven and hell.
A Lower Deep    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 62800 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on September 24, 2011. Fiction.
A man known only as the Necromancer and his demonic familiar "Self" wander the spectral highways of the countryside, incurring the wrath of both heaven and hell – and facing the curses of the damned. But it's a figure from his past that may drive the Necromancer into a hell even he cannot escape.
The Night Class    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 55620 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on September 24, 2011. Fiction.
The college winter break is over, and Cal Prentiss faces yet another semester of boring classes. But Cal's boredom is shattered when he discovers evidence of an unspeakable murder that occurred in his dorm room over the break. Obsessed with finding the truth about this gruesome crime, Cal travels further and further down the twisting halls of a university suddenly gone mad.
Futile Efforts    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $4.99 USD. 106990 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on July 11, 2011. Fiction.
"In this disturbing, often grotesque and ultimately mesmerizing collection, Piccirilli (The Cold Spot) reprints 17 stories and 45 poems. Although the star-studded introductions are a nice bonus, Piccirilli's stories are the selling point, and all are standouts..." Publisher's Weekly
Sorrow's Crown - A Felicity Grove Mystery    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 66140 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on April 12, 2011. Fiction.
Jonathan Kendrick's grandmother lives in the upstate New York village of Felicity Grove. And whenever something of a criminal nature occurs, Grandma Anna is right in the thick of it. This time, the senior sleuth needs Jonathan's help to clear an innocent man's name. Zebediah Crummler, the cemetery caretaker, has been arrested ...
Cast in Dark Waters    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 18900 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on March 25, 2011. Fiction.
Her name was Crimson... and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights. Cast in Dark Waters is an original dark adventure tale by Ed Gorman and Tom Piccirilli
The Dead Past - A Felicity Grove Mystery    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 56410 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on March 21, 2011. Fiction.
Welcome to Felicity Grove…as small as it is peaceful. But somehow Jonathan Kendrick's eccentric grandma Anna always manages to find trouble. This wheel-chair-bound senior citizen is involved. So when the phone rings at 4 AM in Jonathan's New York City apartment, he knows to expect some kind of dilemma. Anna's outdone herself this time. There's a dead body in her trash can.
You'd Better Watch Out    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $0.99 USD. 19990 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on February 26, 2011. Fiction.
After his brutally violent cop father kills his mother in a heinous fashion on Christmas day, a young boy is raised on the streets of Brooklyn to become the deadliest hitman for the Mob. But even while he carves out a life and reputation for himself dispatching enemies of the syndicate, the hitter is planning his revenge against those who helped to make him what he is.
Frayed    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $0.99 USD. 23990 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 23, 2011. Fiction.
Eddie's doing his best to get by, but every day the good fight just gets harder. And now there's a new burden to shoulder. Gray - his best friend and nemesis in literature, romance, and life - has landed in a bizarre mental hospital, known for its radical treatments, because Gray couldn't bear the weight of an unspeakable trauma. Now Eddie's invited to a party at Eddie's house...
The Last Deep Breath    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 21540 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 5, 2011. Fiction.
Grey is a drifter on the search for his foster sister, who showed up for the first time in ten years with a knife in her side, then vanished without a trace. Grey winds up in Los Angeles dealing with manipulative actresses and scummy agents, hoping to find some clue as to what happened to her after she dropped out of a porn career he didn't know about.
Fuckin' Lie Down Already    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 18660 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 3, 2011. Fiction.
Clay was an honest New York City cop driven to bring down the mob and make his city a little safer, even when it seemed like nothing he did made any difference. He always played by the rules until a two-bit junkie hit man destroyed his family and left him for dead. But Clay won't let himself lie down until he gets one last thing: revenge.
All You Despise    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $0.99 USD. 17060 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on December 7, 2010. Fiction.
In All You Despise, Piccirilli’s characteristically lean prose grimly illustrates the high price of redemption and the violent limits of brotherly love. When a nameless man awakens to find his blood-spattered brother passed out in his trailer it sets off a chain of painful, hard-hitting events that tests family loyalty and shows the savage impact of a father’s dark legacy.
Loss    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 16390 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 23, 2010. Fiction.
LOSS concerns a failed writer working as a handyman in an old Manhattan apartment building with a strange history and numerous oddball tenants. The penthouse is owned by a bestselling novelist and his wife, the nameless narrator's longtime unrequited love, who soon goes missing. This novella spotlights the fear of missing out on one's greatest hopes and romantic dreams. AND talking monkeys.
The Nobody    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 23720 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 23, 2010. Fiction.
Cryer came home to find his wife and young daughter brutalized. He can't quite catch the killer, who slips out a window, stabbing Cryer in the forehead with a 3" blade. As his memories slowly return, Cryer sets out to recreate enough of his life to find and confront the killer, led by a series of encounters with his past, and a string of unintelligible words.
Nightjack    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $4.99 USD. 71880 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on October 19, 2010. Fiction.
Pace is released from a mental institution, only to be kidnapped by three other escapees, all suffering from multiple personality disorder. What ensues is a wild, surreal adventure leading finally to a Greek island, where everyone may wind up dead unless Pace willingly releases the darkest persona of all...Nightjack.
The Fever Kill    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 60520 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on August 28, 2010. Fiction.
Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree, where his father the sheriff met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It's where crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line ten years earlier. Crease has a single hope; a raw and raging fever driving him toward the truth that might just burn him up.
Short Ride to Nowhere    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $2.99 USD. 26270 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on August 12, 2010. Fiction.
Jenks and Hale aren't friends, partners, or even next door neighbors anymore. Not since they each lost their jobs and had their homes foreclosed. Not since they lost their wives and kids and lives. After Hale is found nearly dead beside the corpse of a nine-year-old girl, and soon after commits suicide in a mental hospital, Jenks decides to find out what the hell happened.

Tom Piccirilli’s tag cloud

16th century    aluminum foil    angel    angels    asylum    authors    bounty hunter    bram stoker award    brotherhood    cars    cemetery    christmas    collection    coven    cozy    crazy    crime    crime fiction    demon    demonic    demonic familiar    drunk    dysfunctional family    elderly sleuth    familiar    fantasy    felicity grove    friendship    gansters    ghosts    gruesome    guard brutality    gunslinger    heaven    hell    historical fantasy    hitandrun    hitman    horror stories    insanity    jack ketchum    jack the ripper    killer    madness    magic    magick    manhattan    memory    memory loss    mob    mpd    multiple personality    murder    mustang    mystery    necromancer    noir    novella    nuthouse    occult    pentacle    piccirilli    pirates    poet    poetry    police    redemption    revenge    school    self    series mystery    short stories    supernatural    surreal    talking monkeys    thriller    tinfoil    tom piccirilli    unrequited love    vampires    voodoo    western mystery    witchcraft