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Kealan Patrick Burke (born in Dungarvan, Ireland) is an author. Some of his works include the novels Kin, Currency of Souls, Master of the Moors, and The Hides (Bram Stoker Award nominee), the novellas The Turtle Boy (Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2004) and Vessels, and the collections Ravenous Ghosts, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others, Theater Macabre and The Novellas. He has also appeared in a number of publications, including Postscripts, Cemetery Dance, Grave Tales, Shivers II, Shivers III, Shivers IV, Looking Glass, Masques V, Subterranean #1, Evermore, Inhuman, Horror World, Surreal Magazine, and Corpse Blossoms. Burke also edited the anthologies: Taverns of the Dead (recipient of a starred review in Publishers Weekly), Brimstone Turnpike, Quietly Now: A Tribute to Charles L. Grant (International Horror Guild Award nominee, 2004), the charity anthology Tales from the Gorezone and Night Visions 12. In 2008 an 8-minute short film based on his short story "Peekers" was written by author Rick Hautala, and was directed by Mark Steensland. In 2009 Burke played the lead in the independent film "Slime City Massacre", alongside Debbie Rochon. Burke won Best Actor at the 2010 PollyGrind Film Festival with his portrayal of Cory. In 2013 a feature film adaptation of "Peekers" was announced in development with Lionsgate Entertainment, written by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard ("Oculus", "Soma") and produced by Lawrence Grey. See also List of horror fiction authors References External links Kealan Patrick Burke's official website. Mr. Burke's "wovel" The Living Lionsgate Buys Peekers Pitch. Discover the Kealan Patrick Burke popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kealan Patrick Burke books.

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  • The Tent synopsis, comments

    The Tent

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    The perfect getaway...The perfect place to hide...Hocking Hills, Ohio is an oasis for campers, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and for those who just want to get away and lose themselv...

  • Dead of Winter synopsis, comments

    Dead of Winter

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    Winter isn't coming…it's already here, and with it comes a horror no door can keep out.It's there in the yard, in the faces of the snowmen a young boy doesn't remember building.It'...

  • The Hides synopsis, comments

    The Hides

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    It's been almost seven years since the events of Myers Pond. Seven years since a child rose from the dead, seeking Timmy Quinn's help in finding a murderer, a search that left more...

  • Kin synopsis, comments

    Kin

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and halfblind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare...

  • Master of the Moors synopsis, comments

    Master of the Moors

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    Sixteenyearold Kate Mansfield and her blind brother Neil live in a manor on the edge of the Brent Prior moors. It is a dreary place populated by the dispirited and the disillusione...

  • The Turtle Boy synopsis, comments

    The Turtle Boy

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure an...

  • Currency of Souls synopsis, comments

    Currency of Souls

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    Welcome to Eddie's Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a neardead town. Among the people you'll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone's haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of ...

  • Theater Macabre synopsis, comments

    Theater Macabre

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    A hooded figure wanders a lonesome road waiting for a special someone...A criminal returns home to face old memories and new nightmares...A man awakes to find himself living in a m...

  • Vessels synopsis, comments

    Vessels

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    The Third book in the awardwinning Timmy Quinn series.On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, an unpiloted boat drifts ashore, watched by a man to whom the dead are something ...

  • The Novellas synopsis, comments

    The Novellas

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    An omnibus collection of four novellas by Bram Stoker Awardwinning author Kealan Patrick Burke (Kin, The Turtle Boy).Featured in this book are:THE TENTThe perfect getaway...The per...

  • The House on Abigail Lane synopsis, comments

    The House on Abigail Lane

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    From the outside, it looks like an ordinary American home, but since its construction in 1956, people have vanished as soon as they go upstairs, the only clues the things they leav...

  • We Live Inside Your Eyes synopsis, comments

    We Live Inside Your Eyes

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    In the ruins of an old parking garage, there is an effigy lashed to a pillar. To anyone else, the remains of the woman with the goat skull head is a warning. To a lonely young boy ...

  • Dead Leaves synopsis, comments

    Dead Leaves

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    Strange text messages portend a strange kind of apocalypse...Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to h...

  • Halloween Carnival Volume 4 synopsis, comments

    Halloween Carnival Volume 4

    Brian James Freeman, Kealan Patrick Burke, Ray Garton, Bev Vincent & C.A. Suleiman

    Kealan Patrick Burke, Ray Garton, Bev Vincent, C. A. Suleiman, and Paul Melniczek treat readers to some spooky tricks with a hairraising assemblage of tales gathered together by au...

  • Secret Faces synopsis, comments

    Secret Faces

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    "If you are hiding from yourself, don't expect anyone else to see you."Everyone has a secret. Everyone is someone else when the world isn't looking. Sometimes that person is good; ...

  • Blanky synopsis, comments

    Blanky

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    In the wake of his infant daughter's tragic death, Steve Brannigan is struggling to keep himself together. Estranged from his wife, who refuses to be inside the house where the unt...

  • Sour Candy synopsis, comments

    Sour Candy

    Kealan Patrick Burke

    At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums...