Thomas Piccirilli

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Tom Piccirilli
BornMay 27, 1965
DiedJuly 11, 2015(2015-07-11) (aged 50)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1990–2015
GenrePoetry, Horror fiction, Fantasy, Crime fiction, Noir fiction, Hardboiled

Thomas Piccirilli (May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015) was an American novelist, short story writer, editor, and poet, known for his writing in the crime, mystery, and horror genres.[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

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".[3]

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 (tentative title, not completed)
Terrier Rand series
  1. The Last Kind Words (Bantam, 2012)
    ISBN 978-0-553-59248-1
  2. The Last Whisper in the Dark (Bantam, 2013)
    ISBN 978-0-345-52900-8

Media tie-ins

Novellas

Collections and anthologies

Omnibus

Collections
"Neverdead"
"Bury St. Edmonds"
"Maleficia"
"Paindance"
"Eye-Biting and Other Displays of Affection"
  • The Hanging Man and Other Strange Suspensions (1996)
  • The Dog Syndrome and Other Sick Puppies (Marietta Publishing, 1997)
"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

  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Poetry Collection" (2000) : A Student of Hell
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Short Fiction" (2002) : "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Depair"
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" (2003) : The Night Class
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Alternative Forms" (2004): The Devil's Wine
  • International Thriller Writers Award
    for "Best Paperback Original" (2008) : The Midnight Road
  • International Thriller Writers Award
    for "Best Paperback Original" (2010) : The Coldest Mile

Nominated

  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best First Novel" (1991) : Dark Father
  • Best Collection
    " (2000) : Deep into that Darkness Peering
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Fiction Collection" (2000) : Deep into that Darkness Peering
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" (2000) : Hexes
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" (2001) : The Deceased
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction" (2003) : Fuckin' Lie Down Already
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" (2005) : November Mourns
  • Bram Stoker Award for "Best Anthology" (2007) : Midnight Premiere
  • International Thriller Writers Award
    for "Best Paperback Original" (2007) : Headstone City
  • International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Short Story" (2009) : "Between the Dark and the Daylight"
  • Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008) : "The Cold Spot"

References

  1. ^ "Tom Piccirilli (1965-2015)". Locus Magazine. July 2015.
  2. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
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  3. ^ "Bram Stoker Awards 2000". 2001.

External links

See also

  • List of horror fiction authors
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