The Pineys

Series · 9 books · 2019-2022

By Tony DiGerolamo

Books in series

The Pineys

Book 1: My Cousin, the Piney

2019

From the creator of the Jersey Devil comic book comes a story about four cousins cursed by their ancestors, brought together by destiny and trying to keep South Jersey from going to Hell. In 1732, Mother Leeds gave birth to the infamous Jersey Devil, which has roamed the Pine Barrens ever since. Or so the story goes… The truth is, Mother Leeds was a witch and opened the portals to Hell unleashing hundreds of devils into woods. But the villagers next door in Abe’s Hat noticed and formed a secret hunting society to track down the fiends and send them back to the Abyss. Their descendants continue the Hunt in secret to this day. So grab your pork roll, put on your Piney Power hat and join the hunt, because the Galloway cousins are coming to save you whether you like it or not.

The Pineys

Book 2: Witch Piney Are You?

2019

For centuries, the South Jersey Pine Barrens has been the home of not just the Jersey Devil, but the witches of legend and lore. When the devil-hunting Galloway clan is confronted by a coven of old crones, all Hell breaks out—- literally.In the next gun-toting episode of the Pineys, we reveal the origins of Hemingway's undead mother, who and what the Witch Boy is and we burn down part of the Pine Barrens (which pretty much happens every year in South Jersey). Shelly goes to college, Milton and Lewis go to work and Hemingway engages in his, er, uh, "hobby".So down a pint of blueberries, load up your silver bullets and get ready for the Hunt because while devils are hard to kill, witches don't die!From the creator of the Jersey Devil comic book comes a story of four cousins brought together by destiny, cursed by their ancestors and trying to keep South Jersey from going to Hell.

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Book 3: The Third Grade Piney

2019

Before he was the world's greatest hunter, Hemingway Galloway was a rambunctious third grader in Abe's Hat Elementary. A devil that lived in an old well by the school lured children to their doom, but the Galloway cousins thought they killed it Forty years later and Hemingway is a substitute teacher at the school. When the hunter starts reliving his nightmare from the past, he soon realizes something dark still lives in the old well. And when cousins Lewis and Milton take a trip to South Philly, Lewis must confront his own past in the form of mobster debts and his dead father. So grab yourself a deep-fried pizza turnover, load up your silver bullets and get ready for the most intense Piney adventure yet! From the creator of the Jersey Devil comic book, comes a story about four cousins, cursed by their ancestors, brought together by destiny and trying to keep South Jersey from going to Hell.

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Book 4: Feud of the Pineys

2020

The Galloways have been hunting a special kind of "deer" in the South Jersey Pine Barrens for over 250 years. In the next village over, their rivals, the Usteads, have always been jealous of them. They've had a feud going back so long, almost no one remembers why. And for as lucky as the Galloways have been, the Usteads have been unlucky. But when Gary Ustead stumbles upon an item to change that luck, Hemingway Galloway starts to lose his mojo, while the normally unlucky Lewis starts the streak of his life. Meanwhile, a romance is brewing between one of Galloways and one of the Usteads, while still another pair of crossed lovers are just messing around. So grab your Wawa hoagie, load up your silver bullets and get ready to hunt some "deer" because this time the Galloway cousins are more cursed than ever.

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Book 5: Jersey Shore Piney

2020

Trekking to the Jersey Shore has been a Piney right of passage for untold centuries and the Galloway cousins are no exception. But when people start disappearing in the quaint South Jersey town of Ocean Haven, the cousins must hunt down a creature that makes Lucy the Elephant look small! But to Hemingway, the boardwalk is all about reliving his romanticized version of his childhood. For Milton, it's an agonizing replay of a past relationship when he runs into an ex. While Lewis and Shelly begin to sense that their free vacation is a strange trap set by the quiet townsfolk. So grab your Mack and Manco's pizza, bring your Skee Ball tickets and watch out for insane cultists because in South Jersey sometimes the "deer" are boardwalk-sized!

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Book 6: The Highwayman Piney

2021

Hemingway Galloway, the world's greatest hunter's greatest enemy is the one guy that knows the Pine Barrens better than Bloody John Bacon! Pirate, war criminal and abomination, Bacon's scheme could very well push the Gates of Hell wide open. So load up your silver bullets and pick up something blunt, because pirate skeletons and an undead British Loyalist are about to refight the American Revolution!

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Book 7: The Paradox Piney

2021

An ancient forbidden book, Napoleon's brother and a U-Boat full of undead Nazis—- Join the Galloway cousins in their most unusual hunt yet, as they face down a devil that can only die if it's killed in five different time periods.It's a gun-toting, history blasting tale of the supernatural in South Jersey. And this time, Hemingway will have to rely on his most unreliable of relatives—- His 16 year-old self.This is the story of four cousins, cursed by their ancestors, brought together by destiny and trying to keep South Jersey from going to Hell.

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Book 8: Roadkill Piney

2022

Route 55, the infamous Indian Curse Road, was built in the 1980s through an Indian burial mound—- They say bad luck befalls anyone that drives on it. But when you're already cursed like the Galloways, battling an ancient evil is all part of the Hunt. Summoned by the monks that trained him in martial arts, Milton recruits the entire Hunting Lodge to track down the responsible hellspawn, but the god-like fiend isn't going down without a fight. Join the Hunt, as the Galloways blast their way through the South Jersey Pine Barrens and settle a score 10,000 years in the making! So load up on silver bullets, focus your chi and order a chicken parm—- Because when Hell comes to South Jersey, the Galloways send it back!

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Book 9: The Witch Hunter Piney

2022

After the most amazing date of his life, Cousin Lewis falls in love. Unfortunately, the witch boy just happens to be smitten with Nikki Remi, a witch hunter whose family has been hunting witches even longer than the Galloways have been hunting "deer". But does Nikki have the same feelings or is she just using Lewis to get at a 500-year-old book in the Galloway Hunting Lodge and an ancient witch-hunting weapon? When the star-crossed lovers fall afoul of the local witch covens, the resulting chaos threatens to destroy the cousins and the biggest college campus in South Jersey. So grab your silver dagger, stock up on holy water, and be careful who you swipe right on because this Halloween, your date from Hell might literally be taking you there.

Author

Tony DiGerolamo

Author · 19 books

Tony DiGerolamo is a New Jersey screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, game designer and comedian. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books. He has also been a joke writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, a scriptwriter for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and a blogger for Comedy Central’s Indecision website. He has written the screenplays including Mafioso: The Father, The Son starring Leo Rossi. His novels, Fix in Overtime and The Undercover Dragon are available through Padwolf Publishing. After publishing his own comic books (Jersey Devil, The Travelers and The Fix) with SJRP, he eventually got a publishing deal with Kenzer & Company. Kenzer published The Travelers. Tony also wrote Everknights (another Kenzer comic book), as well as the Hacklopedia of Beasts (Volumes 1 thru 8) and Slaughterhouse Indigo (an adventure for the Hackmaster RPG). He also adapted Mark Twain's Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc for Campfire. Performing in the Philly comedy scene for over ten years, Tony performed and directed such improv groups as Next Line Improv, The Cabal, The Ninjas and Bulletproof Giraffe. Besides writing for various comedy websites, he had a long running comics review column in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. He was the marketing director for comics publisher, Silent Devil. He is creator of Tony DiGerolamo’s Complete Mafia for d20, creator/biographer for the online webcomic, Super Frat, the co-creator of the Webcomic Factory and writer for the over two dozen webcomics on the Webcomic Factory site including Lester Crenshaw is Dead, Miserable Comedians and Weird Biker Tales. Look for his latest book, F*ck You, I’m Italian: Why We Italians Are Awesome, from Ulysses Press and Wokeistan: A Novel, from SJRP, now available on Amazon for download.