Tom Piccirilli Books in Order

Two brothers inherit an ancient house and begin to wonder about the father they never knew. When local children start vanishing, the family mystery turns into something far darker.

This linked collection follows an unnamed necromancer and his demonic familiar, Self, across a haunted American roadscape. The stories mix dark fantasy, horror, and a rough outlaw pulse.

After Susan Hartford jumps to her death, mystery writer Nathaniel Follows becomes obsessed with understanding why. His search leads into wealth, damage, and the lingering pain that turns grief into danger.

Piccirilli's section of this three-author horror volume gathers five stories and a novella set among damaged artists, urban decay, and extreme appetites. It is raw, nasty, and very much early Piccirilli.

Jonathan Kendrick rushes from New York City to Felicity Grove after his grandmother Anna finds a corpse in her trash can. Small-town scandal, family loyalty, and amateur sleuthing drive this wry early mystery.

An early collection of six stories, including Fellowship and Hostages, that leans into horror, grotesque humor, and damaged human behavior. It is a compact snapshot of Piccirilli's short fiction at full bite.

When cemetery caretaker Zebediah Crummler is arrested for murder, Jonathan Kendrick has to decode his rambling stories to find the truth. The case pulls Felicity Grove into another knot of old power and buried secrets.

This large collection gathers forty horror and mystery stories, including the Self tales about a modern necromancer and his demonic alter ego. The range is wide, but the mood stays dark and strange.

Matthew Galen returns to his hometown after his best friend is locked in a criminal asylum for monstrous crimes. He may be the only person who understands the dark force behind it.

Piccirilli's first poetry collection channels the same intensity as his fiction in shorter, sharper bursts. It is dark, emotional, and interested in faith, hurt, and the body.

Ten years after his sister slaughtered their family and killed herself, Jacob Maelstrom is drawn back to the old house. Waiting there is a nightmare that never really ended.

College student Caleb Prentiss returns from winter break to find evidence that a murder happened in his room. His search for the truth becomes a campus nightmare marked by death, obsession, and bleeding stigmata.

Piccirilli's writing guide skips shortcuts and talks plainly about learning the craft, handling rejection, and building a career. It is sharp, honest, and aimed at writers just starting out.

A necromancer returns to the ruins of his past with his demonic partner, Self, close at hand. Old enemies, buried grief, and a corrupted former master make homecoming a trip through hell.

Pirate queen Crimson rules the Caribbean by day and faces voodoo, monsters, and blood-soaked secrets by night. This pulpy collaboration blends sea adventure with supernatural horror.

Priest McClaren wants a quiet life, but the outlaw who helped murder his parents is still alive. When his sister can no longer keep hunting, Priest and Lamarr have to ride straight into revenge.

A second poetry collection that keeps Piccirilli's dark, bruised voice front and center. The poems are brief, raw, and charged with pain, black humor, and hard-won feeling.

In swampy Kingdom Come, Thomas cares for his conjoined triplet brothers while old sins and local superstition close in. It is a Southern Gothic nightmare about family, duty, and a town steeped in rot.

Clay was a straight-arrow New York cop until a junkie hit man destroyed his family and left him for dead. Now he wants one last thing from the city he served, revenge.

This collection rounds up sixteen horror stories and a smaller group of poems. It is a good sampler of Piccirilli at his nastiest, saddest, and most playful.

Priest McClaren wants a quieter life building coffins, not more bloodshed. But a rescue mission into Mexico pulls him and Lamarr straight back into danger, knives, and unfinished business.

A poetry collection that turns Piccirilli's dark imagination inward. The pieces are short, intimate, and steeped in unease, pain, and survival.

Shad Jenkins returns to Moon Run Hollow after prison and finds his sister dead under deeply strange circumstances. To learn what happened, he has to cut through superstition, poison, and the town's oldest secrets.

A performance poet with a history of mental illness thinks he sees a woman who died under brutal institutional care. Hunting the truth forces him to ask whether he is seeing a ghost, a killer, or his own unraveling mind.

Fresh out of prison, Johnny Danetello comes back to Brooklyn knowing a mob family wants him dead. Ghosts, old loyalties, and a strange link to alternate realities make his homecoming even more dangerous.

Eddie Whitt has spent five years chasing the serial killer who murdered his daughter. When the killer starts leaving abused infants with grieving families, Eddie follows the letters into a case that may cost him his sanity.

Two old friends are bound by decades of anger and a terrible secret they never buried cleanly. This is a short, jagged story about guilt, memory, and what shared violence does over time.

Child services investigator Flynn survives a nightmare inside a wealthy Long Island home and comes back from death with more questions than answers. Soon people around him start dying, and someone blames him for all of it.

A man wakes to find his bloodied brother collapsed in his trailer, and family history comes crashing in. The fallout is lean, brutal, and focused on the price of loyalty.

Hellboy heads to Enigma, Georgia, to watch over young Sarah Nail, a girl trapped in a family curse. Swamp magic, old sins, and a murderous preacher turn the job into a Southern Gothic fight.

Chase was raised by his ruthless grifter grandfather to drive getaway cars and live fast. After love offers him a way out, tragedy sends him back into the life, and toward a reckoning with Jonah.

Undercover cop Crease returns to the town that destroyed his father and drove him away. With gangsters behind him and a murdered girl haunting the past, he comes home looking for answers and revenge.

Years after trying to go straight, Chase is pulled back into crime by grief, family secrets, and one more ugly score. To save a child from Jonah's legacy, he has to face the grandfather who made him.

After a near-fatal attack leaves him shattered, Cryer can barely remember his own name, only that his wife and daughter were murdered. His search for what happened becomes a fight against memory itself.

A failed man crosses America with his bulldog and a gun, heading toward the brother who may be his last refuge. The story turns economic collapse, shame, and rage into bleak noir.

A big collection that pairs stories like Shadder and Alchemy with dozens of poems. It shows how comfortably Piccirilli moved between horror, suspense, and deeply personal verse.

A failed writer turned handyman lives in a Manhattan building full of strange tenants and older secrets. When the woman he has loved for years disappears, his lonely life turns into a twisted investigation.

After leaving a mental institution, Pace is swept up by fellow escapees whose alternate personalities blur delusion and reality. To survive, he must untangle a violent past that may include a killer inside himself.

Blinded ex-cop Finn now teaches at an isolated girls' school, where a blizzard, a graveyard discovery, and old enemies close in at once. He cannot see the danger, but he is standing in the middle of it.

Two men broken by layoffs, foreclosure, and family loss drift through New York after everything collapses. Their shared fall becomes a dark, restless portrait of anger and desperation.

Grey heads to Los Angeles after his foster sister reappears wounded, then vanishes again. What he finds is a grim trail through exploitation, bad dreams, and lives gone off the rails.

A boy whose cop father murdered his mother grows up on Brooklyn streets and becomes a Mob hitman. Even as he makes a name for himself, he plots revenge on the men who shaped him.

Loosely inspired by the Acid King case, this novella drops teenage Satanism, murder, and occult dread into 1980s Long Island. A drifter arrives to show Ricky and his friends what hell really looks like.

A short nonfiction piece about Piccirilli's experience before and after brain surgery. It is direct, vulnerable, and deeply personal.

Terrier Rand left his family of thieves behind after his brother's murder spree. When that brother swears one victim was killed by someone else, Terry comes home to uncover the truth and face everything he tried to escape.

After his son's death, ex-con Kasteel disappears into the maze of a vast hospital and makes himself its secret guardian. As he prowls the corridors, grief and violence pull him toward a brutal kind of justice.

Mal returns to Moon County when the dead start rising from graves, sinkholes, and swamp muck. Witchcraft, backwoods science, and Piccirilli's dark humor turn this into a fast, nasty zombie tale.

Terrier Rand goes looking for his old friend Chub after a botched heist leaves him missing. The search drags Terry through gangsters, family schemes, and one more crime from his own past.

Screenwriter Tommy Pic wakes in a psychiatric ward with part of a great script he cannot remember writing. Chasing the visions that made it means confronting addiction, family wounds, and a reality that may be coming apart.

Two rival writers circle the same woman in a crumbling apartment house crowded with eccentrics, ghosts, and grudges. What starts as jealousy turns into a strange, darkly comic fight that may end in murder.

One of Piccirilli's later poetry collections, this book leans into confession, grief, and hard-edged spiritual doubt. It is slim, dark, and intensely personal.

At the start of a zombie apocalypse, deep-cover FBI agent and mob hitter Tommy Flowers tries to keep his family alive. Fever dreams, faith, and gangland violence give the end of the world a strange moral edge.

Mob enforcer Royce survives a job gone bad with a broken back and a prison sentence. Relearning how to stand is only the first step, because revenge is waiting when he gets out.

Johnny Booze, an off-grid ex-cop and Iraq veteran, plans mob revenge until teenage ballerina Ellie asks to handle one target herself. The graphic novel turns that setup into a blackly funny, nasty revenge story.

This career-spanning collection brings together offbeat stories and novellas from across two decades of work. If you want Piccirilli in short form, strange, noirish, and unsettling, this is a strong sampler.

A compact collection of seven noir pieces, including Fellowship, Hostages, and Diamond Mozzarella. It delivers Piccirilli's bitter humor and bruised crime sensibility in quick hits.