Thomas Piccirilli

Tom Piccirilli was the author of more than twenty-five novels, including the Bram Stoker Award–winning The Night Class and the International Thriller Award–winners The Midnight Road and The Coldest Mile. Among his other novels are The Deceased, A Choir of Ill Children, The Last Kind Words, and The Cold Spot, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Piccirilli was also a prolific author of short fiction and poetry, and edited numerous well-received anthologies. He passed away in 2015 at the age of fifty.