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Thomas Tessier


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

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Thomas Tessier grew up in Connecticut and attended University College, Dublin. He is 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 lives in Connecticut. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 14,051 ratings · 1,501 reviews · 192 distinct works • Similar authors
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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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