A STUDENT OF HELL is the first poetry collection from Tom Piccirilli, author of HEXES and the "Self" short story series. STUDENT features a cover design by Jame Riley, introduction by Charlee Jacob, interior illustrations by GAK, G. Warlock Vance, Mark McLaughlin, Wayne Miller, and Paul Swenson, and an afterword by Scott Urban. Each copy has a signature page signed by all contributors.
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Tom Piccirilli is the author of eight novels, including HEXES, SHARDS, THE NIGHT CLASS, THE DECEASED, and his "Felicity Grove" mystery series consisting of THE DEAD PAST and SORROW'S CROWN. He's sold over 100 stories to the anthologies FUTURE CRIMES, BAD NEWS, HOT 6BLOOD: FEAR THE FEVER, HOT BLOOD: CRIMES OF PASSION, THE CONSPIRACY FILES, STAR COLONIES, BEST OF THE AMERICAN WEST II, NEW MYTHOS LEGENDS, SONG OF CTHULHU, GOING POSTAL, TERMINAL FRIGHTS, BEST OF PALACE CORBIE, and the magazines CEMETERY DANCE, CARPE NOCTEM, DEATHREALM, TALEBONES, PIRATE WRITINGS, THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE, CRIMEWAVE, LORE, and HARDBOILED, among many others. An omnibus collection of 40 stories entitled DEEP INTO THAT DARKNESS PEERING has just been released by Terminal Fright Press.
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A friend of mine, a Scott Urban, asked me to read "A Student of Hell" and give my opinion about it. I read it and I am impressed. I have never read Tom Piccirilli's work. All I am aware of is this book of poems of his: "A Student of Hell." I am also skeptical of glowing reviews, such as the one given in the introduction of "A Student Of Hell," by Charlee Jacob. The introduction is well written, and well-intentioned, but I was a bit skeptical. I read the following selection, "Most of all, the poems connect. They find the ineluctable nexus between shortchanged life and estranged death," and I thought to myself, "Right. Whatever." Then I read the first poem in the book: "Poised On The Division Bridge." Wow! I read the lines, "how your sister stares in disbelief,/ your wife holding a broken wine glass, your brother/ still ready to kick your ass, your son pointing, neighbors/ peering throught the back window fainting, the cops/ breaking in your front door, mother wailing,/ your dead fish gaping, the dog needs to be fed/ and you have absolutely no idea/ just what the hell you might have done or said" I thought to myself: Wow! That's a poem! It sucks you in, and then hits you in the face in the end! That's one thing I found out about Tom Piccirilli: He hooks you in, sucks you down to his level, and punches you at the end. He has end lines that hit you like 2 softballs in the eyes. I'll give you another example from "Judgment:" "rising on the hill where the town meets without a sound/ ringing the cross stand two men with hammers/ and ten-penny nails" 2 black eyes- 2 fists to remind you that you're reading a poem by God! Tom also has great lines that stand out: An example: From "Marrow:" "There are more ghosts at my fingertips/ than I care to admit" I wish I could have written that, and I consider myself a good poet! Tom also writes moving stanzas. One that appeals to me is from "Lazarus, Beckoning:" "When Lazarus beckons me to the right/ I head left into the old hall/ and listen to my father fall/ choking in the bathroom/ and in the morning I'm no further along than before/ as Dad and Lazarus wake me in my bed/ shuddering, not quite one of the dead,/ no longer waiting for a fight/ and we sit to discuss some of this during the longest/ darkest tempest night" I like this stanza because it throws in rhyme at an unexpected place: from rhyming aa couplets down to a the last 3 lines rhyming aba. Not the usual thing in today's poetry. And if rhyme is done in today's poetry, it's usually too obvious and this isn't. All in all, this is a strong book of poems by a writer I now admire.
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