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A Choir of Ill Children

Tom Piccirilli

Paperback | Pages: 225 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 1736 Users | 193 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Choir of Ill Children
ISBN:	0553587196 (ISBN13: 9780553587197)
Edition Language:	English

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This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.

A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.

Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.

Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.”

Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.

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Title	:	A Choir of Ill Children
Author	:	Tom Piccirilli
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 225 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2004 by Bantam (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Gothic. Southern Gothic

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Ratings: 3.7 From 1736 Users | 193 Reviews

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Never has a book by Tom Piccirilli come together more beautifully. His characters, his prose, and his story are captivating from beginning to end. Tom definitely deserves a Bram Stoker award for this, or at the very least, a nomination. I can't tell you how great a writer Tom is and I urge you to give A Choir Of Ill Children a try. Disturbing and beautiful at the same time, this novel pushes open the bountries of modern horror fiction and gives the genre more legitimacy than ever.

I would like to give it a 3.5, but I can't so I settled for a 3. If I had the time to dive into the deepness of this novel, I probably would have enjoyed it more. The writing itself was beautiful and flowed. However, I just don't and would have preferred a more entertaining novel. There were some unanswered questions. It seemed like that wasn't fair since I felt as though I was getting dragged through this book if only for an answer. It was confusing too. I would still give him another shot

**review amended to include deborah's thoughts, because even though we gave it the same amount of stars, i did not do a good enough job reviewing. "...listen to me - things are different down here. This is the deep South. There are laws that don't apply." "You're an ugly, disgusting people." "No worse than most I'd guess."krok zero hated this book.and i understand his problems with it - when something is compared to faulkner and flannery o'connor, you have certain expectations as a reader, and

Strange and disturbing. Odd. Loved the emotionally detached narration. There's some really good writing here. Everyone defines horror differently; for me this is horror.

This book is definitely not for the faint of heart or one who shys away from horror. There are a lot of elements for a great book, but in my opinion the story doesn't really go anywhere, the first half was a trial, the second half got better but there was a lot left unresolved and it left me saying, "ugh..." and scratching my head. Maybe I should have started my Piccirilli journey with "The Night Class," or "The Dead Letters" as they were both Bram Stoker Award winners.=Begin my attempt at a

This is the first novel-length work by Tom Piccirilli I've read, though I have read quite a few of his shorter works and some of his poetry.A Choir of Ill Children is a beautifully-written, disturbing and creepy gothic jambalaya of conjoined triplets sharing one brain, swamp whores and voodoo ritual that just misses the mark due to a narrator that is at the heart of this heady mash, but never seems too fearful of the madness and death that is descending upon his town. That lack of fearfulness

I like Southern gothic novels as much as the next person, but "A Choir of Ill Children" was too strange and disturbing to be enjoyable. And what was it supposed to be anyway? I'm not sure Southern Gothic fits. Paranormal might work but the thing with paranormal is that, in the end, it needs to make sense.This is the story of Thomas, the son of the only wealthy person in a small deep south town. Thomas's parents are dead, his grandmother was killed on the roof of a church with a reaping blade