Tom Piccirilli

Hace dos años, Shad Jenkins fue a prisión por atacar al agresor de Megan, su hermana. Ahora ha vuelto a Moon Run Hollow para descubrir que ella ha muerto. Perdido en un mundo lleno de encantadores de serpientes y niños extraños, un circulo opresivo que poco a poco se va envenenando con el licor ilegal que se destila en la zona, Shad debe penetrar en las supersticiones de los vecinos del pueblo y en sus mas terribles secretos. Sus pesquisas lo conducen hacia un espeluznante enemigo y le revelan la dantesca figura de un adversario oculto. Duda cada vez mas de su estado mental a medida que empieza a descubrir las pistas de lo que puede haberle sucedido a su hermana y de quien es exactamente su enemigo.

Tras el regreso de las vacaciones navideñas, Caleb Prentiss hace un macabro descubrimiento: durante su ausencia, una chica desconocida ha sido brutalmente asesinada en su dormitorio. Para él, un estudiante frustrado por el tedio de los estudios, ese suceso supondra algo mas que un incidente extraño y se convertira en una obsesion a la que aferrar su oscura vida de universidad. Emprendera una busqueda desesperada por averiguar la identidad de la chica y del misterioso asesino, una busqueda que no podra abandonar ni siquiera cuando toda su vida empiece a derrumbarse a su alrededor.

Desde la misteriosa desaparición de su madre y el suicidio de su padre, la vida no ha ido muy bien para Thomas. Se ha tenido que hacer cargo de sus tres hermanos, tres gemelos con cuerpos separados que comparten un solo cerebro; asi como de la empresa familiar, la unica industria del lugar, que es temida y respetada por igual por los habitantes de la comunidad.Un coro de niños enfermos es la extraordinaria historia de un territorio de los pantanos atrasado y consumido que atrae a los perdidos, a los desventurados y a los malditos.

Hace dos años, Shad Jenkins fue a prisión por atacar al agresor de Megan, su hermana. Ahora ha vuelto a Moon Run Hollow para descubrir que ella ha muerto.Perdido en un mundo lleno de encantadores de serpientes y niños extraños, un circulo opresivo que poco a poco se va envenenando con el licor ilegal que se destila en la zona, Shad debe penetrar en las supersticiones de los vecinos del pueblo y en sus mas terribles secretos. Sus pesquisas lo conducen hacia un espeluznante enemigo y le revelan la dantesca figura de un adversario oculto. Duda cada vez mas de su estado mental a medida que empieza a descubrir las pistas de lo que puede haberle sucedido a su hermana y de quien es exactamente su enemigo.

Tras el regreso de las vacaciones, Caleb hace un macabro descubrimiento: una chica desconocida ha sido brutalmente asesinada en su dormitorio. Ese suceso supondrá algo más que un incidente extraño y se convertira en una obsesion a la que aferrar su vida. En un viaje a traves del misterio, el miedo y la desesperacion, Piccirilli eleva el liston del terror con una obra maestra indiscutible. Algo mas que una historia, es una sobrecogedora experiencia que muchos lectores tardaran en olvidar.Premio Bram Stoker 2003La mejor novela de terror publicada el año pasado en ingles. Si vas a leer una esta temporada, que sea esta.

Desde la misteriosa desaparición de su madre y el suicidio de su padre, la vida no ha ido muy bien para Thomas. Se ha tenido que hacer cargo de sus tres hermanos, tres gemelos con cuerpos separados que comparten un solo cerebro; asi como de la empresa familiar, la unica industria del lugar, que es temida y respetada por igual por los habitantes de la comunidad. Un coro de niños enfermos es la extraordinaria historia de un territorio de los pantanos atrasado y consumido que atrae a los perdidos, a los desventurados y a los malditos.

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 wont fade from his mind s eye. Now a professor, Finn never would have guessed that an isolated girls prep school could be every bit as dangerous as city streets. Especially when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard in the middle of a raging blizzard. Finn may live in a world of total darkness, but its about to get a splash of red. The memories that torment him still have the power to kill, and a group of innocent students has been put in harms way by a pair of vicious criminals stalking Finn for unknown reasons. Secrets are creeping from the shadows around himthe kind that even a man with perfect vision never sees until its too late. Theyre about to become terrifyingly clear to Finnand it all begins with the scent of blood.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirillis The Last Kind Words.

Cryer came home to find his wife and young daughter brutalized. He cant 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.

Chase is a performance poet with a history of mental illness whos spent time in jail and hospitals while trying to deal with traumas from his past. A cult figure in New York City, hes 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 guardis she a hallucination, a ghost, or a killer who faked her own murder? Chase tries to battle his own demons, dementia, and insane desires long enough to face up to his heinous enemies before they destroy whats left of his mind.

Something is calling Jacob Maelstrom back to the isolated home of his childhood to the scene of a living nightmare that almost cost him his life. Ten years ago his sister slaughtered their brother and parents, locked Jacob in a closet...then committed a hideous suicide. Now, as the anniversary of that dark night approaches, Jacob is drawn back to a house where the line between the living and the dead is constantly shifting.But theres more than awful memories waiting for Jacob at the Maelstrom mansion. There are depraved secrets, evil legacies, and family ghosts that are all too real. Theres the long-dead writer, whose mad fantasies continue to shape reality. And in the woods there are nameless creatures who patiently await the return of their creator.

The college winter break is over, and Cal Prentiss faces yet another semester of boring classes. But Cals 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. As he gets closer to the heart of the mystery, Cal is surrounded by the supernatural and the grotesque like the blood that appears on his hands whenever someone close to him dies.

Matthew Galen came back home to Summerfell for a reason. Not to visit his family. Not to relive childhood memories. No, he came back because his best friend was in a hospital for the criminally insane for crimes too unspeakable to believe.But Matthew knows the terrifying truth. The ultimate evil doesnt reside in his friends twisted soul. It comes from a far darker place, a place only Matthew knows. And only Matthew can stop the evil if he dares.

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 wont be that easy. First Priest and Lamarr will have to deal with Septemus Hart, the wealthy landowner whos out to own the whole town. Then, when Molly has to give up the hunt, it will fall to Priest to finally track down Yuman Dean and make him pay.

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 titles, both eBook and audiobook, will continue to go to Tom to assist with his medical bills associated with his cancer treatment.

Bad Dog is a new volume of Tom Piccirillis most offbeat and unsettling short fiction and novellas spanning the breadth of his twenty-year career. Twice nominated for crime fictions highest honor, the Edgar Award, and twice winner of the International Thriller Writers Award, Piccirilli is a master of dark characterization and noir atmosphere. Find out for yourself why Tom Piccirilli is on so many "must read" lists when you open the pages of Bad Dog and lose yourself in the diverse stories and characters within.Stories included in this collection:Between the Dark and the DaylightThe Void It Often Brings With ItBlood Sacrifices & the Catatonic KidAn Average Insanity, A Common AgonyBereavementThe Return of InspirationOsteoporosisZypho the Tentacled Brainsucker from Outer Space vs. the MobWoman in the DarkThe ConclusionWith an Ear for My Fathers WeepingThe Sound of Desert DustLamentFellowshipSeems Like Old TimesOn Oswald AvenueHostagesHorsepowerThin Skin of the Soul Worn AwayWith Eyes AvertedDago LoveShort Ride to Nowhere

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.

From Tom Piccirilli, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, two-time International Thriller Writers Award winner, and finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award, comes The Walls of the Castle, an intense and visceral psychological thriller. This atmospheric yet action-packed, mature psychological thriller, is part examination into the bonds of family and part treatise on the nature of identity, and explores the deepest areas of what makes us who we are. With a noir sensibility and complexity of character, the novella is a hybrid psychological thriller thats part suspense tale, part family saga, and part literate mystery.

Welcome to Felicity GroveThis upstate New York village is as small as it is peaceful. But somehow Jonathan Kendricks eccentric grandma Anna always manages to find trouble. Crime, scandal, you name it this wheel-chair-bound senior citizen is involved. So when the phone rings at 4 AM in Jonathans New York City apartment, he knows to expect some kind of dilemma. But Annas outdone herself this time. Shes stumbled across a dead body in her trash can.Praise for Tom Piccirillis The Dead Past"Kendrick is one part Matt Scudder, one part aging Huck Finn, and one part Archie Goodwin ... The person who summons him home is not a grizzled, but exasperated chief of police, not a swooning dame in dangerbut his own grandmother, who is every bit as snoopy as Miss Marple, and every bit as tart as Joan Rivers [a] blend of hard-boiled and cozy elements gives the book its wit, warmth and appeal ... one of the best written and most enjoyable mysteries Ive read in a long time." Ed Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene"Tightly written and plotted, Piccirillis latest effort gracefully and whimsically navigates through pain, violence, turmoil, and the sundry details of life. At times wisecracking, intense and extreme when necessary, but always driven to find the heart of the matter..." Pirate Writings magazine"Piccirilli has got it! Dead Past should give him a vibrant future! Humor, a clear sense of continuity and an unexpected conclusion ... Put on a warm coat, boots and a mystery mind and join the characters in this well-written, page-turning, thoroughly satisfying murder mystery." Eclectic Book Reviews"Tom Piccirilli is a genius at characterization.. . His sardonic wit makes The Dead Past a great read... simultaneously mesmerizing, frightening, and poignant ... a brilliant whodunit." The Midwest Book Review"Tom Piccirilli has taken us places that few mystery writers are willing to visit, and as long as he finds another dark crevice to explore ... he will have a growing legion of brave readers willing to follow him there." Mystery News

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. Its 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.

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