Thomas Piccirilli

Career

Awards

Novels

• Dark Father
• Shards
• Inside the Works: A 3-Way Collection of Hardcore Horror
• Hexes
• The Deceased
• The Night Class
• A Lower Deep
• Grave Men
• Fuckin' Lie Down Already
• A Choir of Ill Children
• Coffin Blues
• Thrust
• November Mourns
• Headstone City
• The Dead Letters
• Frayed
• The Midnight Road
• The Fever Kill
• The Cold Spot
• The Coldest Mile
• Shadow Season
• The Last Kind Words

  Series

''Felicity Grove'' series

1. The Dead Past
2. Sorrow's Crown

   ''Cold'' series

3. The Cold Spot
4. The Coldest Mile
5. The Cold and the Dead

   Media tie-ins

• Hellboy: Emerald Hell

  Novellas

• Cast in Dark Waters
• All You Despise
• The Nobody
• Every Shallow Cut
• The Walls of the Castle

• Collections and anthologies

Omnibus

• Epitaphs: Two Novels of the Dead Past

  Collections

• Pentacle, introduction by Jack Cady.. Features five short stories that make one continuing narrative:
• The Hanging Man and Other Strange Suspensions
• The Dog Syndrome and Other Sick Puppies
• Deep into that Darkness Peering
• A Student of Hell
• Four Dark Nights . Featuring the Piccirilli story "Jonah Rose."
• This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding
• Mean Sheep
• Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife
• A Little Black Book of Noir Stoires

  Anthologies edited

• The Devil's Wine, a poetry anthology featuring Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub, and many more.
• Midnight Premiere, also contains Tom Piccirilli's short story "Shadder."

  Anthologies containing stories by Tom Piccirilli

• 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, and Robert H. Weinberg. Features the short story, "Sorrow Laughed."
• Stranger by Night: The Hot Blood Series part VI edited by Michael Garrett and Jeff Gelb. Features the short story, "Take It as It Comes."
• Fear the Fever: The Hot Blod Series part VII edited by Michael Garrett and Jeff Gelb. Features the short story, "Call It."
• White House Horrors edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Features the short story "Broken ’Neath the Weight of Wraiths."
• Women Who Run with the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust, and Metamorphosis edited by Pam Keesey. Features the short story, "The Hound of God."
• Crimes of Passion: The Hot Blood Series part IX edited by Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett. Features the short story, "Curs."
• Terminal Frights edited by Kenneth E. Abner, Jr. Features the short story, "A Lower Deep."
• Cat Crimes Through Time edited by Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, and Larry Segriff. Features the short story "Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer."
• Horrors! 365 Scary Stories edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg. Features the short story, "On the Panecraft Train."
• Going Postal edited by Gerard Daniel Houarner. Features the short story, "Nietzsche Sooths Fishboy Lenny."
• More Monsters from Memphis, edited by Beecher Smith. Features the short story, "Go Back to the Church."
• 100 Hilarious Little Howlers edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg. Features the short story, "Chasing the Ugly Dog."
• Future Crimes edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers. Features the short story, "The Serpent Was More Subtle."
• New Mythos Legends edited by Bruce Gehweiler. Features the short story, "Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine."
• Bad News edited by Richard Laymon. Features the short story, "The Whole Head is Sick, the Whole Heart Faint."
• Star Colonies edited by Martin H. Greenberg, John Helfers, and Ed Gorman. Features the short story, "I am a Graveyard Hated by the Moon."
• October Dreams edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish. Features the non-fiction piece, "My Favorite Halloween Memory."
• Corpse Blossoms edited by Julia Sevin and R. J. Sevin. Features the short story, ""An Average Insanity, A Common Agony."
• Evermore edited by James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey. Features the short story, "Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer."
• The Death Panel: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness edited by Cheryl Mullenax. Features the short story, "Blood Sacrifices & The Catatonic Kid."
• A Splintered Mind edited by Trent Zelazny.
• Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror edited by Joe R. Lansdale. Features the short story "Loss."
• Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine edited by Jeani Rector. Features the short story "Because What Is Mine Is Mine."

  Non fiction

• Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer
• Deconstructing Tolkien: A Fundamental Analysis of the Lord of the Rings
• Introduction to The Well by Jack Cady

  Awards

Won

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

  Nominated

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