Tom Piccirilli Reading Order

41 books (1995–2018)

Start with 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, the first of 41 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	100 Wicked Little Witch Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fear the Fever 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crimes of Passion 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best of the American West II 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Devil's Wine 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Four Dark Nights 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Guns of the West 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Book of More Flesh 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	Imagination Fully Dilated 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Walk on the Darkside 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	Shivers III 2004Buy 🇺🇸
15	Cemetery Dance: Issue 52 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Corpse Blossoms 2005Buy 🇺🇸
17	Damned Nation 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	Evermore 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	Midnight Premiere 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	Bare Bone #10 2007Buy 🇺🇸
21	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Five Strokes to Midnight 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	In Laymon's Terms 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Shroud 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Death Panel: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness 2009Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dark Faith 2010Buy 🇺🇸
28	Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen 2010Buy 🇺🇸
29	Halloween 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Best of Talebones 2010Buy 🇺🇸
31	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
32	Stranger by Night 2011Buy 🇺🇸
33	Supernatural Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
34	Tales From the Crossroad 2011Buy 🇺🇸
35	A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine 2012Buy 🇺🇸
36	Danse Macabre 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 2012Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Big Click: May 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
39	Dueling Minds 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Mirages 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2016)

Start with The Walls of the Castle and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Walls of the Castle 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prisoner 489(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Booking(By: Ramsey Campbell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2014)

Start with The Cold Spot and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Cold Spot 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Coldest Mile 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cold Comforts 2014Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1995–2020)

Start with Pentacle, the first of 12 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Pentacle 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Inside The Works 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dog Syndrome 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Deep Into That Darkness Peering 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Student of Hell 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mean Sheep 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Waiting for My Turn to Go Under the Knife 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Futile Efforts 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Forgiving Judas 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Bad Dog 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Little Black Book of Noir Stories 2020Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1997–1998)

Start with The Dead Past and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Dead Past 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sorrow's Crown 1998Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2015–2015)

#	Title
1	Bullet Ballerina 2015Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2001–2024)

Start with Odd Jobs(By: Christopher Golden), the first of 18 books in the Hellboy Graphic Novel series.

#	Title
1	Odd Jobs(By: Christopher Golden) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Bones of Giants(By: Christopher Golden,Mike Mignola) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lost Army(By: Christopher Golden,Mike Mignola) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Odder Jobs(By: Frank Darabont) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	On Earth As It Is In Hell(By: Brian Hodge) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	The God Machine(By: Thomas E. Sniegoski) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unnatural Selection(By: Tim Lebbon) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dragon Pool(By: Christopher Golden) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Emerald Hell 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Hellboy II: The Golden Army(By: Robert Greenberger) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Oddest Jobs(By: Christopher Golden,Mike Mignola) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	The All-Seeing Eye(By: Mark Morris) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Lobster Johnson: The Satan Factory(By: Thomas E. Sniegoski) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Fire Wolves(By: Tim Lebbon) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Ice Wolves(By: Mark Chadbourn) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	An Assortment of Horrors(By: Christopher Golden) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	Hellboy in Love(By: Christopher Golden,Mike Mignola) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
18	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955-1957(By: Chris Roberson,Mike Mignola) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2000–2012)

Start with Welcome to Hell and read in order.

#	Title
1	Welcome to Hell 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Meeting the Black 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2002–2004)

Start with Grave Men and read in order.

#	Title
1	Grave Men 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Coffin Blues 2004Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (2002–2015)

Start with Cast in Dark Waters(With: Ed Gorman), the first of 17 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Cast in Dark Waters(With: Ed Gorman) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fuckin' Lie Down Already 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Thrust 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Frayed 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	All You Despise 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Between the Dark and the Daylight 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Nobody 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Every Shallow Cut 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Loss 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Short Ride to Nowhere 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Last Deep Breath 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	You'd Better Watch Out 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Clown in the Moonlight 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Pale Preachers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Vespers 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Backshot 2015Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1990–2013)

Start with Dark Father, the first of 15 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Dark Father 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shards 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hexes 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Deceased 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Night Class 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Lower Deep 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Choir of Ill Children 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	November Mourns 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Headstone City 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Dead Letters 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Midnight Road 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Fever Kill 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Nightjack 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Shadow Season 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	What Makes You Die 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2013)

Start with The Last Kind Words and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Last Kind Words 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last Whisper in the Dark 2013Buy 🇺🇸