“Piccirilli is a master of the snap shot, of the slice of life—he plunges you headlong into various worlds, makes his points, then ushers you out, leaving you to reflect on what you’ve experienced.” —Hellnotes
“Tom Piccirilli’s little town of Kingdom Come is filled with granny witches, child killers, swamp demons, hot honeys, private eyes, wild bikers and all manner of geeks and freaks. Riotous, surprising and marvelously gruesome, A Choir of Ill Children is a plate of Southern comfort food that’s at once hard-boiled and deep-fried, with lots of squishy, greasy sides.” —Stewart O’Nan
“A Choir of Ill Children is everything a great horror should be—beautifully written, ingeniously plotted, richly atmospheric, and single-mindedly devoted to delivering an uncompromisingly nightmarish vision. This amazing book also exemplifies the too-often-ignored truth that the most riotous humor flourishes in the blackest earth. For the die-hard epicure of horror fiction as a form of both artistic and personal expression, Piccirilli is an oasis of shadows in a glaring desert of banality. He’s one of the few living authors who can mingle with the masters of the genre.” —Thomas Ligotti
“Written with a poet’s eye for detail and ear for language, succinct and eloquent and as fast-paced as a good thriller, grimly comic and luminously lyrical, A Choir of Ill Children is a feast of Southern Gothic. Tom Piccirilli is a true and wondrous original.”
—Ramsey Campbell
A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN
A Bantam Book
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Night Shade Books hardcover edition published June 2003
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Title:A Choir of Ill Children
Creator:Tom Piccirilli
Publisher:Bantam Dell
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Subject:Fiction
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Rights:Copyright © 2003 by Tom Piccirilli