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