Kealan Patrick Burke

Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland. He is best known as an award-winning author described as "a newcomer worth watching" by Publishers Weekly. Some of his works include the novels Currency of Souls and The Hides (Bram Stoker Award nominee), the novellas The Turtle Boy (Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2004) and Vessels, and the collection Ravenous Ghosts. He has also sold fiction to 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.

Aside from his accomplishments as an author, Kealan 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. He is also an associate editor for Subterranean Magazine.

A movie based on his short story "The Quiet" is currently in post-production at Artificial Films in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Selected bibliography

Novels

  • The Hides (2005) - Nominated for a 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005) ISBN 1-58767-120-4
  • Currency of Souls (Subterranean Press)

Long Fiction

  • Turtle Boy - Winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction
  • Midlisters (Biting Dog Press)
  • Vessels (Bloodletting Press)
  • Looking Glass - A collaborative effort, round robin style story co-authored by Gary A. Braunbeck, Dominick Cancilla, Ray Garton, Joe Hill, Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert Morrish, Tom Piccirilli, Al Sarrantonio, John Skipp, and Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance Signature Series #1, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-125-5

Short fiction collections

  • Ravenous Ghosts (Dark Essential Series Book #3) (3F Publications, 2003 and reissued by Delirium Books, July 2004)

Includes:

Introduction - Jack Cady
"Familiar FACES"
"The Barbed Lady Wants for Nothing"
"Haven"
"The Binding"
"The Wrong Pocket"
"Sparrow Man"
"The Room Beneath the Stairs"
"Symbols"
"Editor's Choice"
"From Hamlin to Harpersville"
"Cold Skin"
"Not While I'm Around"
"Someone to Carve the Pumpkins"
"The Man Who Breaks the Bad News"
"The Defenseless"
"Haunting Ground"
Afterword - Gary Braunbeck
  • The Number 121 to Pennsylvania and Others (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2007) ISBN: 978-1-58767-168-5

Scheduled to include:

Introduction
"The Grief Frequency"
"The Number 121 to Pennsylvania"
"Mr. Goodnight" (short story version)
"Empathy"
"Peekers"
"High on the Vine" (previously unpublished short story)
"Tonight the Moon is Ours"
"Prohibited"
"Underneath"
"Snowmen"
"Will You Tell Them I Died Quietly?"
"The Last Laugh"
Saturday Night At Eddie's (an original novella)
"Mr. Goodnight" (original screenplay version)
Story Notes

Anthologies

  • Evermore (edited by James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey(2006, Arkham House) - Contains the short story "From the Wall, a Whisper"
  • Quietly Now (a tribute to Charles L. Grant), edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Borderlands 2004). - Nominated for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
  • Taverns of the Dead, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005) ISBN 1-58767-082-8
  • Night Visions 12, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Subterranean Press, 2006) ISBN 1-59606-070-0
  • Brimstone Turnpike, editied by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications, TBA) 1
  • Shivers IV (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) edited by Richard Chizmar - Contains the short story "Prohibited"

Magazine appearances

  • Cemetery Dance #47 - includes the short story "Number 121 To Pennsylvania"
  • Cemetery Dance #51 - includes the short story "Mr. Goodnight"
  • Cemetery Dance #54 - includes the short story "Snowmen"
  • Cemetery Dance Presents: Grave Tales #5 - scheduled to include a comic book adaption of a Kealan Patrick Burke short story
  • Postscripts #11 - includes the short story "Cobwebs"

See also

  • List of horror fiction authors