1 May 12 2008 at 16:29:30 Fullname: Timothy Deal Email: editor@shroudmagazine.com Comments: Signed Piccirilli novella available for pre-sale now... ALL YOU DESPISE http://www.shroudmagazine.com/all-you-despise-tom-piccirilli-limited-edition-hardcover.html 
Shroud Publishing is proud to announce the upcoming publication of a new novella by one of the most respected and dynamic voices in the horror and suspense genres: Tom Piccirilli. In All You Despise, a signed, illustrated, limited edition hardcover, 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 off a chain of painful, hard-hitting events that tests family loyalty and shows the savage impact of a father’s dark legacy. Fast-paced and packing a visceral punch, All You Despise will keep the reader anxiously turning pages all the way to its unexpected conclusion. This exclusive offering from Shroud Publishing features a special introduction penned by Bram Stoker-winning author Brian Keene and stunning illustrations by veteran illustrator Alex McVey. Both contributors will also sign this special limited edition alongside the author. Limited to only 500 copies and available only from Shroud Publishing, All You Despise will be a unique addition to your quality book collection. All You Despise will be priced to move at only $29.99. However, if you pre-order now, you can get it for a special reduced rate of only $24.99. At this price, supplies will definitely not last. Tom Piccirilli is the author of twenty novels including THE COLD SPOT, THE MIDNIGHT ROAD, A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN, and THE DEAD LETTERS. He's a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, and Le Grand Prix de L'Imagination. Learn more at www.tompiccirilli.com Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror author. His novels include Dead Sea, Ghoul, City of the Dead, Terminal, The Conqueror Worms, Fear Of Gravity, and many more. Several of his books and stories have been optioned for film, video game and comic book adaptations. The New York Times, Fangoria, the History Channel, and others have credited Keene with ushering in the new era of zombie popularity in pop culture. Alex McVey is an award-winning illustrator whose work has been published internationally, ranging from album art to graphic design to book illustration. He has illustrated the works of Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Gahan Wilson, Brian Keene, Ramsey Cambpell, and Richard Matheson, among others. His clients include ad firms, gaming companies, film studios, bands, and book and magazine publishers. 2 April 30 2008 at 20:48:24 Fullname: Pic Email: PicSelf1@aol.com Comments: Thanks, Rich, hope you dig it. Hope all goes well by you, man. 3 April 30 2008 at 19:05:47 Fullname: Rich SanFilippo Email: Comments: Hey Tom, Got my copy of TCS from Amazon yesterday morning. Looking forward to starting it today on my subway ride home. Best to you and Michelle! 4 April 29 2008 at 03:00:21 Fullname: Pic Email: PicSelf1@aol.com Comments: My novel THE COLD SPOT officially hits tomorrow, though it seems to have started sneaking onto shelves over the past few days. Some nice reviews/blurbs have come in, and I figured I'd share. "Tom Piccirilli straddles genres with the boldness of the best writers today, blending horror and crime fiction into tight, brutal masterpieces. Pick up a copy of THE MIDNIGHT ROAD or THE COLD SPOT and prepare for a journey as thrilling as it is provocative."-James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain "Piccirilli (The Midnight Road, etc.) tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate."-Publishers Weekly Also, check out first-rate fantasist, blogger exrtaordinaire, and reviewer Jeff VanderMeer's take on TCS in his very sharp review, where he says in part: "Few novels have the focus and driving energy of Tom Piccirilli's The Cold Spot wedded to an innate intelligence and rough lyricism." http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2008/04/28/the-cold-spot-by-tom-piccirilli-an-instant-noirhardboiled-classic/ 5 April 22 2008 at 05:27:13 Fullname: Pic Email: Comments: I've seen THE BEYOND a bunch of times, and I still don't get it. Not that I mind much, it's still a disturbing, spooky film, all the more for its odd surreal moments. And yeah, BLACK WINGS is a stand-out. I haven't read it in a few years, I really should take it down off the shelf again. 6 April 22 2008 at 03:10:38 Fullname: Mark Email: mhk_77@yahoo.com Comments: Thanks for the response! I had the same "feeling", I guess you could say, after finishing CHOIR as I did the second or third time I finished Fulci's "the Beyond" (the first time I didn't "get it" at all). BLACK WINGS is my very favorite of the Gold Medal books I've read so far, though I had to settle for the recent reissue. PLUNDER by Benjamin Appel is probably runner-up. I've got THE NAME OF THE GAME and THREE-WAY SPLIT on my shelf to be read, and I'll likely be picking up the others you mentioned. Thanks again! 7 April 21 2008 at 23:17:53 Fullname: Pic Email: Comments: Heya Mark: Thanks for the kind words on CHOIR. It's a pretty trippy book, though I think you might be the first person who ever likened it to Fulci. Maybe it's my Italian roots showing through. I'm a hardcore fan of the Gold Medal authors, especially David Goodis, Charles Williams, Peter Rabe, Harry Whitington, Bruno Fischer, and Gil Brewer, among plenty of others. The list of top titles is always changing, but some faves include Charles Williams' GIRL books, Goodis' STREET OF THE LOST and SOMEBODY'S DONE FOR, Dan J. Marlowe's THE VENGEANCE MAN and THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DEATH, Chaze Elliott's BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL, Rabe's THE BOX, and Brewer's THREE-WAY SPLIT. 8 April 21 2008 at 20:26:23 Fullname: Mark Email: mhk_77@yahoo.com Comments: Hi Tom, just finished "Choir of Ill Children". It was my first full length, though I've read several of your short stories. To date, it's the closest thing I've come across in novel form to rival the hallucinatory state a Lucio Fulci film can induce. I've got "Midnight Road" ready to go next and "the Fever Kill" on order. I noticed at the back of each novel it mentions your being a huge Gold Medal noir fan. I've been consistently picking them up on ebay for the last year myself. I was wondering what your top 5 or top 10 titles in that line are? 9 April 17 2008 at 04:09:45 Fullname: Pic Email: Comments: Hey Mickey: Glad I was able to avoid the tropes of swamp ficion and keep you guessing as to which way Emerald Hell was going to pop. Also glad you noted how I put emphasis on understanding why HB avoids looking at himself too carefully. It's an element that Mike Mignola touches on in subtle ways here and there in the series, but something I thought would add a greater dimension to HB if I underscored it a touch. I'm glad you stuck around for my novel as well! Hope you dig my other books if/when you get a chance to peruse them a bit. Thanks for all the generous comments, much appreciated. 10 April 17 2008 at 02:23:19 Fullname: Mickey Coalwell Email: ecoalwell@kc.rr.com Comments: Tom, I finished your new Hellboy novel, Emerald Hell, a few days ago, and I have to say I'm very, very impressed. I think it's the best Hellboy prose novel out there, and I've read them all. I was a little afraid in the first few pages that the hillbilly/Southern Gothic swamp setting would have me groaning from the cliches and stereotypes, but you constantly upended expectations and kept it surprising and fresh, with just the right amount of dark humor (the final exchange between HB and Waldridge was hilarious). Jester and Lament are really great, complex characters. And you touchingly revealed HB's persistent avoidance of self-reflection, something I've always found hard to accept given his intelligence, as a desperate -- and deliberate-- attempt to stay sane...and human. Nice touch. The climactic confrontation between HB and Jester miraculously avoided the comic book punch-out formula, and was all the richer and more satisfying for its humanity and gravitas. Thank you. In Emerald Hell, you preserved the essential enigma of Hellboy while still giving us a glimpse into his deeply conflicted nature. Man, or monster? Jester and HB ("Brothers") represent the choices. Finally, I don't wish to criticize any of the other Hellboy prose novel authors, but just to let you know, I was about ready to give up on the HB prose novels once and for all after wasting my time on the last several. I'm glad I stuck it out for yours. The quality of your writing is just head and shoulders above the others in this series. I'm going to read some other books by you now. 11 April 16 2008 at 06:04:51 Fullname: Pic Email: PicSelf1@aol.com Comments: Yo Bud! Glad you dug TFK, especially the ending, and yeah, there's more than a few noir moments. You've just got to pay homage to Mitchum and the other noir heroes/losers along the way. Also glad you're enjoying Emerald Hell. As for the French films, I haven't caught any outside of Calvaire and the Aja films. I have to admit the older I get the less I dig the really over the top bloodletting stuff a la Wolf Creek, etc. Just not my bag. The Asians however, for all the blood, really know how to do it with style and transcend to a bullet ballet. 12 April 15 2008 at 19:30:57 Fullname: Bud Email: Comments: Hey, Tom! Really enjoyed The Fever Kill, what a heart wrenching end to that puppy! I can just picture Crease sitting there bleeding and smoking a cigarette, what a perfect noir moment. Robert Mitchum in black and white, ya know? Just started the Hellboy novel, and really digging on that as well. Off topic, but have you seen any of these new films from France that are getting a lot of ink? Specifically, "Them" and "Inside"? Sadly, America doesn't seem to be able to produce anything interesting---I guess you have to go to Asia or somewhere to get your hiney kicked!! 13 April 07 2008 at 16:33:01 Fullname: Pic Email: Comments: Thanks for the generous compliments, TT, really glad you dug TFK. The thing is, most of my horror stuff bordered crime fiction anyway, and intensely dark and quirky crime/noir fiction comes off as horrific anyway, so it's always the best of both worlds. Thanks again! 14 April 07 2008 at 13:31:18 Fullname: ttzuma Email: ttzuma@comcast.net Comments: Tom, The Fever Kill was tremendous! In my eyes, you have not written a book as good as this since November Mourns! Crease's voice was outstanding! The sense of dread combined with the tension in your scenes made this a page turner. I hope to write a full review for the gang in The Cellar on Horrorworld tonight, every Pic fan should know that this novel kicks some major Noir ass! What a great read! (You hafta get back into horror Tom, even if you just pen a novella. Hey, what if you rewrote The Fever Kill, called it something else, and Teddy turned out to be possessed by some demon and was controlling the action the whole time? Ha! Just kidding, but your horror fans miss you Tom.) Tt 15 April 07 2008 at 13:29:14 Fullname: ttzuma Email: ttzuma@comcast.net Comments: Tom, The Fever Kill was tremendous! In my eyes, you have not written a book as good as this since November Mourns! Crease's voice was outstanding! The sense of dread combined with the tension in your scenes made this a page turner. I hope to write a full review for the gang in The Cellar on Horrorworld tonight, every Pic fan should know that this novel kicks some major Noir ass! What a great read! (You hafta get back into horror Tom, even if you just pen a novella. Hey, what you rewrote The Fever Kill, called it something else, and Teddy turned out to be possessed by some demon and was controlling the action the whole time? Ha! Just kidding, but your horror fans miss you Tom.) Tt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>
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