Critical Acclaim
Press
“Tessier is one of horror fiction's best kept secrets.”
The Washington Post
“The Nightwalker is perhaps the finest werewolf novel of the last twenty years... scary, grim, fast-paced, very good.”
Stephen King · on The Nightwalker
“Vastly talented... He is a masterful practitioner of the art of dark fiction.”
Publishers Weekly
“He is one of the most capable and conscientious writers to grace the contemporary field.”
Douglas E. Winter, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Thomas Tessier is one of the genre's living masters. His novels and stories combine the visceral satisfactions of first-rate popular fiction with the aesthetic satisfactions of literary fiction at its best.”
Bill Sheehan, author of At the Foot of the Story Tree
“The Nightwalker is very likely the most unusual occult novel I have ever read... I think it will be read for a long time.”
Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story · on The Nightwalker
“His command of his craft is captivating.”
Hartford Courant · on The Nightwalker
“Its elegance and tenderness and taste make it something very special in the field of horror. I won't be able to get the book or its characters out of my mind for weeks.”
Peter Straub · on Phantom
“A sense not just of evil but of spiritual terror... suspenseful, shocking, harrowing, but also very moving and written in prose of great elegance and power.”
Ramsey Campbell · on Fog Heart
“It is the emotional hurt that Thomas Tessier inflicts on his characters that is the most horrifying aspect.”
Fangoria · on Fog Heart
“Thomas Tessier's novel is that rare thing, a clever and well-written horror story.”
The Times (London) · on Fog Heart
“If Tessier has any peers, they are Jonathan Carroll and Ruth Rendell, but the fact is that he is in a class by himself... Fog Heart is a stunning, beautifully realized book.”
Peter Straub · on Fog Heart
“Tessier knows no limits except those of his own considerable imagination, which is poetic and savage by turns, and always surprising.”
Ramsey Campbell · on Fog Heart
“In a Thomas Tessier story, tension rises like a frightful fever and then peaks at nightmare.”
Publishers Weekly · on Father Panic's Opera Macabre
“Thomas Tessier's stories are beguiling, evocative, mesmerizing.”
American Library Association Booklist · on Ghost Music and Other Tales
“Thomas Tessier's stories are chilling and terrifying.”
Library Journal · on Remorseless
“Thomas Tessier is a vastly talented writer and his stories are shocking... horrifying.”
Rocky Mountain News · on Wicked Things
“Tessier is a masterful practitioner of the art of dark fiction.”
Publishers Weekly · on Wicked Things
“Thomas Tessier is one of those writers who can find the unexpected poetry and subtlety in horror.”
Peter Straub · on World of Hurt
“Thomas Tessier is extending the boundaries of the horror field rather than merely retelling guaranteed terrors.”
Ramsey Campbell · on World of Hurt
“Thomas Tessier is one of the very best writers of horror fiction of this generation.”
Shadowings: The Reader's Guide to Horror Fiction · on World of Hurt
“Thomas Tessier's stories are chilling and terrifying!”
Library Journal · on World of Hurt
“Tessier is one of the genre's reigning masters”
Washington Post · on World of Hurt