Michael J. Picco

INTRODUCTION

Michael Picco writes about very bad things: things with sharp teeth and voracious appetites; things that lie waiting in dark shadows; things that chitter and howl and scream and slither. Things that burrow into the soft, wet folds of your mind… and lay their eggs there.

He doesn’t write about sparkly vampires, maniacal slashers, or evil dolls. There’s enough of that dreck in the world without him adding to the pile — don’t you think? He’s not trying to figure out what scares you. He knows that the real monsters are all too human; or, at the very least, don human skin.

Michael’s stories are meant to disturb. They’re meant to linger. They meant to leave you feeling unclean. Tainted.

Michael has given voice and form to the things that clamor through his skull for the better part of twenty-five years. His work has appeared in nearly twenty anthologies. He has written two award-winning short story collections which have captivated readers in the U.S. and abroad.

Michael received his B.A. in English from Western State College in Colorado. He is a member of the Denver Horror Collective, and the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. He is currently working on These Wretched Bones, his third collection of strange and macabre tales (anticipated release 2024-2025).

He lives with a menagerie of monsters, both real and imagined, in the Colorado high country.

For a complete list of his publishing credits, click here.