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Tom Piccirilli

Tom Piccirilli

Piccirilli, Thomas Edward

May 27, 1965 – July 11, 2015 (aged 50)

Birth place: New York City, New York, USA

186 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 1990 36|36.2 Review Dark Father Science Fiction Chronicle, #129 June 1990
January 1993 4 Short Fiction Sentences The Silver Web, Winter/Spring 1993
1994 58 Short Fiction Seems Like Old Times Pirate Writings, Fall 1994
1994 70 Essay Small Press Dispatch and Big Books Pirate Writings, Fall 1994
September 1994 36 Short Fiction Rave Dead of Night #10, Fall 1994
October 1994 36 Short Fiction Neverdead Terminal Fright, October/December 1994
1995 71 Review Ancestral Hungers Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 72 Review Celestis Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 30 Short Fiction Meester Smeet Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 72 Review Proximity Zero & Proximity One (Supplement for Proximity Zero) Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 70 Essay Review of the mystery novel "Dance of the Mongoose" by T. J. Phillips Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 72 Essay Review of the mystery novel "Death of a DJ" by Jane Rubino Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 70 Essay Review of the mystery novel "The Last Castrato" by John Spencer Hill Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 70 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, #8 1995) Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 70 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, Spring 1995) Pirate Writings, Spring 1995
1995 71 Review The Off Season Pirate Writings, #8 1995
1995 70 Review The Two-Bear Mambo Pirate Writings, #8 1995
January 1995 31 Short Fiction Extreme Closeup - Frame Blood-Red Gaslight: Tales of the Unsane, Winter 1995
March 1995 3 Short Fiction Bury St. Edmonds Terminal Fright, Spring 1995
June 1995 4 Short Fiction Maleficia Terminal Fright, Summer 1995
June 1995 38 Short Fiction The Hanging Man The Silver Web, Summer 1995
July 1995 70 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings #7 Summer 1995) Pirate Writings, #7 Summer 1995
September 1995 5 Short Fiction Paindance Terminal Fright, Fall 1995
December 1995 17 Review Ancestral Hungers The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1995
December 1995 5 Short Fiction Like a Hell-Broth Terminal Fright, Winter 1995
December 1995 48 Review Pentacle The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1995
December 1995 34 Short Fiction The Lean Deathrealm, Winter 1995
1996 Review An Exaltation of Larks Horror, Issue #6 (1996)
1996 42 Short Fiction Caucasus The Fractal, Spring-Summer 1996
1996 Review Dark Love Horror, Issue #6 (1996)
1996 63|63.2 Review Dradin, in Love Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 62 Review Hawk Moon Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 Review Header Horror, Issue #6 (1996)
1996 62 Review Mainline Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 54 Short Fiction On Oswald Ave. Pirate Writings, #12 1996
1996 63|63.1 Essay Review of the collection of crime tales "Extreme Measures" by Gary Lovisi Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 Essay Review of the magazine "Dreams of Decadence" Horror, Issue #6 (1996)
1996 63|63.3 Essay Review of the mystery novel "Just Bones" by Jeffrey Denhart Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings #11, 1996) Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, #12 1996) Pirate Writings, #12 1996
1996 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, #9 1996) Pirate Writings, #9 1996
1996 62 Review Ribofunk Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 Review Shards Absolute Magnitude, Winter 1996
1996 64 Review Shards Pirate Writings, #11 1996
1996 40 Short Fiction Snipe TransVersions, #6
1996 Review The 37th Mandala Horror, Issue #6 (1996)
1996 11 Interview The Autumn Ed: Interview with Ed Gorman Pirate Writings, #12 1996
1996 Review The Hanging Man Absolute Magnitude, Winter 1996
1996 32 Short Fiction Twilight in the Room of Fathers Pirate Writings, #9 1996
January 1996 3 Essay Letter (Talebones #2, Winter 1996) Talebones #2, Winter 1996
March 1996 11 Short Fiction When the Lamp Is Shattered Lore #4, Spring 1996
April 1996 20 Review Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1996
July 1996 79 Short Fiction Devotion Cemetery Dance, Summer 1996
July 1996 3 Essay Letter (Talebones #4, Summer 1996) Talebones #4, Summer 1996
October 1996 22 Short Fiction Lap Me in Soft Airs Talebones, Fall 1996
December 1996 24 Interview A Graveside Chat with Tom Piccirilli Deathrealm, Winter 1996
December 1996 1 Essay Editorial (Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror # 1, 1996) Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror # 1, 1996
December 1996 Editor Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror - 1996 Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror # 1, 1996
December 1996 14 Short Fiction Familiar Child Deathrealm, Winter 1996
December 1996 34 Interview Words with Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror # 1, 1996
1997 63 Review A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 62|62.2 Review Black River Falls Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 3 Essay Editorial (Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror, #2) Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror, #2
1997 Editor Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror - 1997 Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror, #2
1997 62|62.3 Review f2f Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 63 Review Midnight Promises Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 63 Review Mother of God Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 Poem Not Yet of the Flesh Frisson: Disconcerting Verse, Winter 1997
1997 62|62.1 Essay Review of the autobiographical work "High Castle" by Stanislaw Lem Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 63 Essay Review of the comedic criminal novel "Steal Away" by Timotgy Watts Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 64 Essay Review of the magazine "Frisson: Disconcerting Verse" by Scott H. Urban Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 62|62.3 Essay Review of the police detective thriller "In a Heartbeat" by Eric Stone Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 64|64.2 Essay Review of the series "The Kipton Chronicles" by Charles L. Fontenay Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 62|62.4 Essay Review of thriller "Judgment Day" by Patrick Reinken Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 62|62.1 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings #13, 1998) Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings #14, 1997) Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, #15, 1997) Pirate Writings, #15, 1997
1997 76 Review The Dead Past Absolute Magnitude, Fall/Winter 1997
1997 64 Review The Dead Past Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 62|62.2 Review The Intruder Pirate Writings, #13 1997
1997 11 Interview The Wordsmith: Exit from Brooklyn: An Interview with Robert Randisi Pirate Writings, #14 1997
1997 Review Year 1: A Time of Change Absolute Magnitude, Spring 1997
January 1997 21 Short Fiction Samaritan Prisoners of the Night, #10
April 1997 4 Short Fiction Madness Blows the Winds of History Talebones, Spring 1997
August 1997 1 Interview An Interview with Tom Piccirilli Vampire Dan's Story Emporium, Summer/Fall 1997
November 1997 1 Essay Editorial (Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror #3, 1997) Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror #3, 1997
1998 62 Review Eye of the Beholder and Other Stories Pirate Writings, #16, 1998
1998 62 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings #16, 1998) Pirate Writings, #16, 1998
January 1998 13 Interview Flesh and Blood Interview: Tom Piccirrilli Flesh & Blood, #1
January 1998 74 Review Inside the Works Fangoria, January 1998
February 1998 63 Review The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies Locus, #445 February 1998
May 1998 1 Essay Editorial (Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror #4, 1998) Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror #4, 1998
May 1998 Editor Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror - 1998 Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror #4, 1998
May 1998 41 Review The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies Science Fiction Chronicle, #197 May-June 1998
July 1998 17 Poem Children Seen Only in High Beams Talebones, Summer 1998
July 1998 61 Review Inside the Works Talebones, Summer 1998
1999 Poem A Countenance More in Anger Than in Sorrow Frisson: Disconcerting Verse, Winter 1999
1999 11 Interview Peering into Darkness: An Interview with Tom Piccirilli Pirate Writings, #17, 1999
1999 62|62.2 Review Portrait of the Psychopath As a Young Woman Pirate Writings, #17, 1999
1999 62|62.3 Essay Review of the non-genre book "The Blonde on the Street Corner" by David Goodis Pirate Writings, #17, 1999
1999 62|62.1 Essay Reviews (Pirate Writings, #17, 1999) Pirate Writings, #17, 1999
1999 64 Review Sorrow's Crown Pirate Writings, #17, 1999
1999 36 Short Fiction Where the Martyred Flesh Knows Serenity The Third Alternative, #18
April 1999 6 Poem Divinity As Witness to the Depth of Our Darkening Love Frisson: Disconcerting Verse, Spring 1999
May 1999 61 Review The Dead Past Interzone, May 1999
October 1999 37 Interview An Interview with Tom Piccirilli Deadbolt Magazine #5, 1999
October 1999 31 Poem Lazarus, Beckoning Roadworks, Autumn 1999
October 1999 10 Poem Poised on the Division Bridge Roadworks, Autumn 1999
January 2000 47 Poem Lazarus Beckoning Mindmares, January 2000
January 2000 78 Poem Sponging My Syrup Off the Formica Mindmares, January 2000
February 2000 83 Review Sorrow's Crown Talebones #18, Winter 2000
April 2000 8 Short Fiction He Plants His Footsteps in the Sea Pulp Eternity Magazine #1.5, 2000
April 2000 99 Poem Sunday, While the Sauce Simmers Roadworks, Winter 2000
July 2000 49 Short Fiction At One Stride Comes the Dark Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #20, Summer 2000
November 2000 86|86.1 Review Deep Into That Darkness Peering Talebones, Fall 2000
December 2000 5 Poem Mean Sheep Frisson: Disconcerting Verse, Winter 2000
2001 24 Poem November Frisson: Disconcerting Verse, Autumn 2001
July 2001 66 Review The Night Class Locus, #486 July 2001
October 2001 24 Interview Tom Piccirilli Interview Flesh & Blood, #8
December 2001 49|49.0 Review A Lower Deep Science Fiction Chronicle, #219 December 2001
December 2001 35 Short Fiction Come Back to Tell You All Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #22, Winter 2001
April 2002 Poem The Guy Who Just Lives There ChiZine, April-June 2002
June 2002 21 Interview Spider Robinson: An Interview Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #23, Summer 2002
July 2002 Poem Twined Backwards Upon the History of My Heart ChiZine, July-September 2002
August 2002 64 Review Cast in Dark Waters Locus, #499 August 2002
August 2002 40 Review Cast in Dark Waters Science Fiction Chronicle, #227 August 2002
December 2002 91 Review Four Dark Nights Talebones #25, Fall 2002
December 2002 133 Review The Night Class Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2002
December 2002 92 Review The Night Class Talebones #25, Fall 2002
February 2003 4 Interview A Conversation with Tom Piccirilli Cemetery Dance, #42
February 2003 13 Short Fiction Voice C Cemetery Dance, #42
March 2003 4 Short Fiction Gravesend Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #24, Spring 2003
March 2003 65 Review The Night Class Locus, #506 March 2003
May 2003 23 Review A Choir of Ill Children Locus, #508 May 2003
May 2003 34 Review This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2003
September 2003 4 Short Fiction The Final Staging of Ascent Flesh & Blood, #13
January 2004 Poem Five Uneasy Pieces ChiZine, January-March 2004
January 2004 Short Fiction Ice on Heated Steel Script ChiZine, January-March 2004
February 2004 Review A Choir of Ill Children Realms of Fantasy, February 2004
April 2004 4 Interview Touring the Night Country: A Conversation with Stewart O'Nan Cemetery Dance, #48, 2004
July 2004 132 Review Fuckin' Lie Down Already Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2004
September 2004 24 Interview Tom Piccirilli Interview Dark Discoveries, Fall 2004
December 2004 4 Short Fiction Jesus Wrestles the Mob to Feed the Homeless Talebones #29, Winter 2004
December 2004 86 Interview The Talebones Interview: Tom Piccirilli Talebones #29, Winter 2004
December 2004 14 Short Fiction With an Ear for My Father's Weeping The Horror Express, Winter 2004
February 2005 16 Review A Choir of Ill Children The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 2005
March 2005 102 Review Coffin Blues Cemetery Dance, #51, 2005
April 2005 Interview A Conversation with Tom Piccirilli Red Scream, April-May 2005
April 2005 32 Short Fiction Avoid Abduction: Learn the Secret Arts of Ninjitsu Red Scream, April-May 2005
May 2005 29 Review November Mourns Locus, #532 May 2005
August 2005 83 Short Fiction Shadder Cemetery Dance, #52, 2005
November 2005 22 Interview A Conversation with Charles Ardai Cemetery Dance, #53
December 2005 55 Interview Red Scream Does Tom Piccirilli Red Scream, Winter 2005
December 2005 28 Short Fiction The Serpent Was More Subtle Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #4, Winter 2005
March 2006 33 Review Headstone City Locus, #542 March 2006
November 2006 33 Review The Dead Letters Locus, #550 November 2006
December 2006 117 Interview Apex Interview: Tom Piccirilli Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #8, Winter 2006
2007 77 Review The Dead Letters Dead Reckonings, Spring 2007
2007 58 Review The Midnight Road Dead Reckonings, Fall 2007
October 2007 26 Review The Midnight Road The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2007
January 2008 5 Short Fiction Circling Shroud: The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Winter 2008
February 2008 116 Review The Dead Letters Cemetery Dance, #58, 2008
March 2008 12 Short Fiction The Woman in the Dark City Slab, #12
April 2008 52 Short Fiction Be the Darkness Shroud: The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Spring 2008
May 2009 118 Review The Fever Kill Cemetery Dance, #60, 2009
November 2009 123 Review The Nobody Cemetery Dance, #62, 2009
November 2009 124 Review The Shimmer Cemetery Dance, #62, 2009
September 2010 133 Review Shadow Season Cemetery Dance, #64, 2010
April 2011 |101 Poem Big G & Little J ChiZine, April-June 2011
April 2011 |171 Interview Deep Cuts ChiZine, April-June 2011
April 2011 |47 Short Fiction Lament ChiZine, April-June 2011
April 2011 |136 Poem My Friend Ernie, Trying to Light a Match ChiZine, April-June 2011
December 2012 99 Review The Last Kind Words Cemetery Dance, #68, 2012
April 2013 31 Interview A Few Words About The Last Kind Words: A Conversation with Tom Piccirilli Cemetery Dance, #69, 2013
April 2014 54 Interview Meeting the Black: An Interview with Tom Piccirilli Dark Discoveries #27, Spring 2014
April 2014 59 Short Fiction My Secret is the Faces in My Hands Dark Discoveries #27, Spring 2014
April 2014 Short Fiction Steel Snowflakes in My Skull Apex Magazine, April 2014
May 2014 Short Fiction At the Mercy of Angry Angels Beware the Dark, May 2014
May 2014 Short Fiction How Some of Us Sleep Beware the Dark, May 2014
May 2014 Interview Interview with Tom Piccirilli Beware the Dark, May 2014
May 2014 Essay Meeting the Black Beware the Dark, May 2014
May 2014 Short Fiction Waste of the Good Stuff Beware the Dark, May 2014
July 2014 |14 Interview Author Spotlight: Tom Piccirilli Nightmare Magazine, July 2014
July 2014 |5 Short Fiction The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair Nightmare Magazine, July 2014
September 2014 29 Short Fiction That Hideous Beauty Jamais Vu, Summer/Autumn 2014
October 2014 Short Fiction What I Am Apex Magazine, October 2014

41 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1990 Novel Dark Father Tom Piccirilli
1995 Collection Pentacle Tom Piccirilli
1996 Novel Shards Tom Piccirilli
1996 Collection The Hanging Man Tom Piccirilli
1996 Anthology Year 1: A Time of Change Tom Piccirilli & Edward J. McFadden, III
1997 Anthology Inside the Works Tom Piccirilli & Edward Lee & Gerard Daniel Houarner
1997 Collection The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies Tom Piccirilli
1999 Collection Deep into that Darkness Peering Tom Piccirilli
1999 Novel Hexes Tom Piccirilli
2000 Collection A Student of Hell Tom Piccirilli
2000 Novel The Deceased Tom Piccirilli
2001 Novel A Lower Deep Tom Piccirilli
2001 Novel The Night Class Tom Piccirilli
2002 Anthology Bastards of Alchemy Tom Piccirilli & Gerard Houarner
2002 Chapbook Cast in Dark Waters Ed Gorman & Tom Piccirilli
2002 Anthology Four Dark Nights Bentley Little & Douglas Clegg & Christopher Golden & Tom Piccirilli
2002 Collection This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding Tom Piccirilli
2003 Novel A Choir of Ill Children Tom Piccirilli
2003 Collection Mean Sheep Tom Piccirilli
2004 Anthology Epitaphs: 20 Tales of Dark Fantasy & Horror Tom Piccirilli & Edward J. McFadden, III
2004 Chapbook Fuckin' Lie Down Already Tom Piccirilli
2004 Anthology The Devil's Wine Tom Piccirilli
2004 Collection Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife Tom Piccirilli
2005 Novel November Mourns Tom Piccirilli
2006 Novel Headstone City Tom Piccirilli
2006 Chapbook Looking Glass Ray Garton & Tom Piccirilli & Brian Keene & Gary A. Braunbeck & Tim Lebbon & Al Sarrantonio & Bev Vincent & Thomas F. Monteleone & Joe Hill & John Skipp & Dominick Cancilla & Kealan Patrick Burke & Robert Morrish
2006 Novel The Dead Letters Tom Piccirilli
2007 Anthology Midnight Premiere Tom Piccirilli
2007 Novel The Midnight Road Tom Piccirilli
2008 Novel Emerald Hell Tom Piccirilli
2009 Novel Shadow Season Tom Piccirilli
2009 Chapbook The Nobody Tom Piccirilli
2010 Novel Nightjack Tom Piccirilli
2011 Chapbook Every Shallow Cut Tom Piccirilli
2011 Collection Pentacle: A Self Collection Tom Piccirilli
2013 Chapbook The Walls of the Castle Tom Piccirilli
2013 Novel What Makes You Die Tom Piccirilli
2014 Collection Forgiving Judas Tom Piccirilli
2014 Chapbook Pale Preachers Tom Piccirilli
2015 Chapbook Backshot: 2012 Tom Piccirilli
2015 Collection Bad Dog: Collected Crime Stories Tom Piccirilli

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1990 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel Dark Father Nominee
1995 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Pentacle Nominee
1995 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Eye-Biting and Other Displays of Affection Nominee
1996 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Shards Nominee
1996 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Call It Nominee
1996 Deathrealm Award Best Collection Pentacle Winner
1997 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies Nominee
1997 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction A Lower Deep Nominee
1997 International Horror Guild Award Best Long Form Recovery Nominee
1999 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Deep into that Darkness Peering Nominee
1999 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Hexes Nominee
1999 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Mount of the Oath Nominee
1999 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine Nominee
2000 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel The Deceased Nominee
2000 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection A Student of Hell Winner
2000 Rhysling Award Short Poem Badges of Either's Woe Nominee
2000 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Deep into that Darkness Peering Nominee
2001 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel A Lower Deep Nominee
2001 Rhysling Award Short Poem Not Yet of the Flesh Nominee
2002 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel The Night Class Winner
2002 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding Nominee
2002 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair Winner
2003 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel A Choir of Ill Children Nominee
2003 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Fuckin' Lie Down Already Nominee
2004 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife Nominee
2005 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel November Mourns Nominee
2006 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Headstone City Nominee
2007 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in an Anthology Midnight Premiere Nominee
2008 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger Un chœur d'enfants maudits Nominee
2014 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Forgiving Judas Winner

• Was a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" (2008, 2010). • Was a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. • Was a finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award given by the Mystery Writers of America. • Was the winner of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of "Best Poetry Collection".
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