Bad Dog is a new volume of Tom Piccirilli's most offbeat and unsettling short fiction and novellas spanning the breadth of his twenty-year career. Twice nominated for crime fiction's highest honor, the Edgar Award, and twice winner of the International Thriller Writers Award, Piccirilli is a master of dark characterization and noir atmosphere. Find out for yourself why Tom Piccirilli is on so many "must read" lists when you open the pages of Bad Dog and lose yourself in the diverse stories and characters within.

Stories included in this collection:

Between the Dark and the Daylight

The Void It Often Brings With It

Blood Sacrifices & the Catatonic Kid

An Average Insanity, A Common Agony

Bereavement

The Return of Inspiration

Osteoporosis

Zypho the Tentacled Brainsucker from Outer Space vs. the Mob

Woman in the Dark

The Conclusion

With an Ear for My Father’s Weeping

The Sound of Desert Dust

Lament

Fellowship

Seems Like Old Times

On Oswald Avenue

Hostages

Horsepower

Thin Skin of the Soul Worn Away

With Eyes Averted

Dago Love

Short Ride to Nowhere