Tom Piccirilli

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Full Series List in Order

A Felicity Grove Mystery

1 - The Dead Past (Jun-1997)
2 - Sorrow's Crown (Jan-1999)

Terrier Rand

1 - The Last Kind Words (Jun-2012)
2 - The Last Whisper in the Dark (Jul-2013)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Dark Father

  • Shards

    After the break-up of his latest relationship, Nathaniel Follows meets beautiful, wealthy, and melancholy Susan Hartford; their rapport is immediate. She invites him to her home for a grandiose birthday celebration, and Nathaniel finds that Susan's ...

  • The Dead Past

    A Felicity Grove Mystery - 1

    Welcome to Felicity Grove... This upstate New York village is as small as it is peaceful. But somehow Jonathan Kendrick's eccentric, grandma Anna always manages to find trouble. Crime, scandal, you name it...this wheelchair-bound senior citizen is in...

  • Thunder of the Captains, and the Shouting

    in The Conspiracy Files

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • Sorrow's Crown

    A Felicity Grove Mystery - 2

    To save a friend... 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'...

  • Hexes

    Returning to his family hometown when his best friend is placed in a hospital for the criminally insane--after committing unspeakable crimes--Matthew Galen, the only person who knows the true source of his friend's problem, faces a sinister evil forc...

  • The Deceased

    Ten years after his sister had massacred their brother and parents and then committed suicide, Jacob Maelstrom is drawn back to the remote home of his childhood and back into a nightmare in which the line between the living and dead is continually sh...

  • A Lower Deep

    When the Necromancer and his demonic partner known as "Self" are forced to return to his home, where painful memories linger from the death of his beloved and the destruction of his coven, he must battle his former master, Jebediah DeLance, who is no...

  • Grave Men

    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, Yuma Dean, is still on the loose. Now Molly is a haunted bounty hunter a...



  • The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair

    in The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

    An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • The Night Class

    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 t...

  • A Choir of Ill Children

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children...

  • Coffin Blues

    Priest McClaren wants to put his past behind him. It's a past filled with loss, murder . . . and revenge. Now all Priest wants is to own a carpentry shop and earn a quiet living building coffins. But it looks like peace and quiet just aren't in Pries...

  • These Strange Lays

    in A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

    A gruesome collection of stories delves into the mysterious creatures and dark forces that lurk in the shadows, featuring contributions from such noted horror authors as Don Tumasonis, Lee Thomas, Mark Samuels, and Joseph A. Ezzo. Original....

  • Epitaphs

    Three time Bram Stoker Award winner Tom Piccirilli and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Editor Edward McFadden bring you 20 tales of dark fantasy and horror. Rose pedals whirl in the rising wind as the shadows thicken. Read these Epitaphs from: L...

  • November Mourns

    Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died -- or why she was found on Gospel Trail...

  • Headstone City

    The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed h...

  • The Dead Letters

    Five years ago, Eddie Whitt's daughter Sarah became the victim of a serial killer known as Killjoy, and Whitt vowed to hunt him down--no matter what the cost. But the police have given up. And Killjoy has stopped killing...and in some bizarre act of ...

  • Five Strokes to Midnight



  • Midnight Premiere

    eaturing Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton, Brian Hodge, Ed Gorman, Al Sarrantonio, Mick Garris, and many others, these eighteen original tales celebrate Hollywood and the horror movie-going experience with affection, dev...

  • The Midnight Road

    From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he'll remember his last fifty minutes long after he's dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share...

  • The Fever Kill

    Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It's 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 kic...

  • Hellboy

    Hellboy comes to the crossroads in Enigma, Georgia, a small town best by strange occurrences. Sent to keep an eye on Sarah Nail, a young girl hiding from the curse of her family, Hellboy becomes entangled in the blood debt of evil mystical preacher, ...

  • The Cold Spot

    Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores...

  • Shroud 1

    This is the volume that started it all! Rare horror fiction from Michael Laimo, Tom Piccirilli, Stephen Mark Rainey, Tim Waggoner, and much more. A compilation of dark literature for the discerning reader brought to you by Tim Deal and Shroud Publish...

  • The Coldest Mile

    Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow--until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con ...

  • Shadow Season

    An ex-cop, Finn was left literally blinded by violence. The one thing he "can" still see is the body of his wife, Dani, and a crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls' prep...

  • Blood, Guts, and Whiskey

    "She had an ass like a heart turned upside down and cut in half -- and that's what we call foreshadowing, friend." Gruesome and glam, vicious and violent, this collection of the best new neo-noir fiction will hit you like a biker boot to the skull...

  • Fuckin' Lie Down Already



  • Loss

    Employing the unique, darkly humorous, and powerful noir voice that is his trademark, Piccirilli demonstrates why he's become a must-read author for admirers of both crime and horror fiction. LOSS concerns a failed writer working as a handyman in an ...

  • The Nobody

    Cryer once had another name, but he can't remember it.The man he used to be was stabbed in the head by an assailant. After months of catatonia Cryer awakens in a mental facility to find that his former life is almost completely forgotten. He knows hi...

  • All You Despise

    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...

  • F*ckin' Lie Down Already

    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 lef...

  • Frayed

    “Are you the one who helped him kill the angel?”Twenty years of repressed anger and memories. A bitter knot of hatred that binds and divides two friends. The dark secret that fuels and devastates them both.“He killed it. I only helped him to bu...

  • The Last Deep Breath

    The Last Deep Breath follows Grey, 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 a...

  • Cold Comforts

    After years toiling in obscurity, Thomas, a crime fiction author, is finally able to leave personal tragedy and poverty behind. A Hollywood benefactor has offered him a chance at success and celebrity. But deadly trouble looms when a beautiful woman ...

  • You'd Better Watch Out

    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...

  • Every Shallow Cut

    “Lovers of gritty noir will devour this . . . a pulse-pounding account of a writer’s descent into despair and violence.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)   With his book sales -- never strong to begin with -- ebbi...

  • Nightjack

    On the day of his release from a mental institution Pace is taken "hostage" by Faust, Pia, and Hayden, three escapees from the hospital who disappeared after the presumed rape and beating of Cassandra Kaltzas, daughter of the Greek munitions tycoon A...



  • Futile Efforts

    "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...

  • Thrust

    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 re...

  • Clown in the Moonlight

    CLOWN IN THE MOONLIGHT is based in part on the true story of Ricky Kasso, the so-called Acid King, who murdered a friend in the Northport woods back in '84 claiming Satan told him to do it, then proceeded to bring high school classmates to view the m...

  • The Last Kind Words

    Terrier Rand - 1

    From International Thriller Writers Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Tom Piccirilli comes a mesmerizing suspense novel that explores the bonds of family and the ways they're stretched by guilt, grief, and the chance for redemption. Raised in ...

  • Meeting the Black

    Meeting the Black is a powerful and emotional piece written by Tom Piccirilli describing what he was going through, both mentally and physically, before and after his recent operation. 100% of the sales amounts of this and his other Crossroad Press ...

  • What Makes You Die

    To see more is to find oblivion... Screenwriter Tommy Pic fell hard from Hollywood success and landed in a psychiatric ward, blacked out from booze and unmedicated manic depression. This is not the first time he's come to in restraints, surrounded...

  • The Walls of the Castle

    From four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award Tom Piccirilli comes an intense and visceral psychological thriller novella, the first title i...

  • The Last Whisper in the Dark

    Terrier Rand - 2

    Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that ...

  • Vespers

    Tommy Flowers is a deep cover FBI agent and mob hitter, wracked by guilt, trying to keep himself and his gangster family safe at the dawn of the zombie Armageddon. He’s cursed with fevers and visions of Lucifer, demons, and God. Is the zombie apo...

  • Pale Preachers

    Mal's redneck cousins from Moon County come calling because Grandma Callie, who raised him in the same "witchy ways" as his sister Lulabelle was brought up. Although he left home to try for a normal life, he's still got the gift, and right now Moon...



  • Short Ride to Nowhere

    Jenks and Hale aren't friends, partners, or ever 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 whatever stability they'd fought for in the world. Adrift o...

  • Pentacle

  • Bullet Ballerina

    Johnny Booze is an Iraq War vet and ex-cop who went off the grid when mobsters killed his family. He's been a shadow on the street, a killing machine who fancies himself judge, jury, and executioner. But this isn't his story. It's the tale of Ellie, ...

  • Bad Dog

  • Emerald Hell

    Hellboy comes to a crossroads in Enigma, Georgia, a small town bested by strange occurrences. Sent to keep an eye on Sarah Nail, a young girl hiding from the curse of her family, he becomes entangled in the blood debt of evil mystical preacher Brothe...

  • A Little Black Book of Noir Stories

    The second in the first series of Little Books from Borderlands Press is A Little Black Book of Noir Stories. This collection of short fiction is by four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tom Piccirilli.Stories included in this collection:Fellow...

  • Mean Sheep

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Award-Winning Books by Tom Piccirilli

The Coldest Mile
2010 Thriller Award -- Paperback Original
The Midnight Road
2008 Thriller Award -- Paperback Original
The Night Class
2003 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tom Piccirilli has published 56 books.

Tom Piccirilli does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Little Black Book of Noir Stories, was published in July 2020.

The first book by Tom Piccirilli, Dark Father, was published in March 1990.

Yes. Tom Piccirilli has 2 series.
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