He lives in an unhaunted house in Ohio with a Scooby Doo lookalike rescue named Red. Kealan is represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House and Kassie Evashevski at Anonymous Content. Happy book review Friday This was sure is a crazy one and I know it wont be everyones cup of tea, but I think its a really well done bookLet me know if y. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers a family of cannibalistic lunatics are closing in. Stitch, a collection of novellas entitled Guests for Suntup Editions , and adapted Sour Candy as a graphic novel for John Carpenter's Night Terrors. On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. Most recently, he completed a new novel, Mr.

Since then, he has written five novels, among them the popular southern gothic slasher Kin, and over two hundred short stories and novellas, including Blanky and The House on Abigail Lane, both of which are currently in development for film and TV.Ī five-time Bram Stoker Award-nominee, Burke won the award in 2005 for his coming-of-age novella The Turtle Boy, the first book in the acclaimed Timmy Quinn series.Īs editor, he helmed the anthologies Night Visions 12, Taverns of the Dead, and Quietly Now, a tribute anthology to one of Burke’s influences, the late Charles L. Covered in blood and wounds including a gouged out eye and multiple body punctures and out of her mind with pain, she’s being tracked by a shadowy and menacing figure. Hailed by Booklist as “one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror,” Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Ireland and emigrated to the United States a few weeks before 9/11. ‘Kin’ begins with a outstandingly horrific daytime-set scene involving a battered, naked teenage girl staggering down a deserted road near the town of Elkwood, Alabama.

Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke