Phil Tufi

Phil A. Tufi writes speculative thrillers about the thin places between history, folklore, espionage, and the unexplained.

Dear Phil,

You need to stop.

You have been warned, repeatedly, about following strange trails through St. Petersburg. About the rumors. About walking directly toward the thing everyone else is wisely avoiding. And yet here you are, still asking questions that sensible people have the good sense not to finish asking.

For official and practical reasons, his books are works of fiction.

They are not entirely works of fiction.

Phil was born in Eureka, California, studied Russian language and international affairs, and later spent years as a locomotive engineer. He has lived in post-Soviet Russia, developed what he calls a lifelong fascination with impossible stories, and has interests that include quantum weirdness, interdimensional speculation, Bigfoot folklore, and the question of whether human memory is much stranger than we have been told.

He already knows the answer to that last one.

Phil writes for readers who enjoy paranormal mystery, metaphysical fiction, espionage, alternate history, and cosmic conspiracy. He currently lives in California.

Whatever followed him on the way to the Hermitage in the 1990s may or may not still be following him.

He has been advised not to look back.

He looked back.