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Thomas Tessier


Born
in Waterbury, Connecticut, The United States
May 10, 1947

Died
March 26, 2026

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Thomas Tessier grew up in Connecticut and attended University College, Dublin. He was the author of several acclaimed novels of terror and suspense, plays, poems, and short stories. His novel Fog Heart received the International Horror Guild's Award for Best Novel, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of the Year. He lived in Connecticut. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 15,445 ratings · 1,760 reviews · 212 distinct works • Similar authors
The Nightwalker
3.44 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1979 — 25 editions
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Finishing Touches
3.56 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 1986 — 14 editions
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Rapture
3.65 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions
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Phantom
3.62 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions
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Fog Heart
3.58 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions
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The Fates
3.24 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions
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Wicked Things
3.12 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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Father Panic's Opera Macabre
3.63 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Shockwaves
3.19 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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Secret Strangers
3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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“Books were mysterious, frightening, thrilling, disturbing, uplifting, nurturing, endlessly available and always accommodating.”
― Thomas Tessier, World of Hurt: Selected Stories
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“He looked outside once more. It was like a Bosch painting, except that Bosch lacked the imagination or nerve for this horror. In some forlorn part of his brain Neil heard Abba singing “Fernando” in a tinny voice.”
― Thomas Tessier, World of Hurt: Selected Stories
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“We have to imagine and create, we have to fantasize, or there's nothing. Passion, desire, romance-those things don't exist unless we make them happen”
― Thomas Tessier, Ghost Music and Other Tales
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