Kealan Patrick Burke

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Kealan Patrick Burke

Born Kealan Patrick Burke
August 4, 1976 (1976-08-04) (age 31)
Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland
Occupation Writer, Anthologist, Photographer, Curriculum content editor for Pearson Education
Nationality Irish
Genres Crime fiction, Mystery fiction, Dark fantasy, Horror fiction
Influences
Official website

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.[citation needed] 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.

An 8 minute short film based on his short story "Peekers" is currently doing the festival circuit (including Dead by Dawn 2008, Edinburgh's horror film fest). The screenplay was written by Rick Hautala, and it is directed by Mark Steensland. [1] Another movie based on his short story "The Quiet" was in production at Artificial Films in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but that fell through.

Contents

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] Novels

[edit] Wovel

Kealan Patrick Burke is the first writer for what Underland Press is calling a Wovel (a web-novel). It is an ongoing novel, almost in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. The author writes it, and the readers vote on which direction the story will go.

[edit] Long Fiction

[edit] Timmy Quinn series

Series of novels and novellas featuring the character known as Timmy Quinn.

[edit] 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

Includes:

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

[edit] Anthologies

  • Corpse Blossoms, edited by Julia Sevin & R.J. Sevin (Hemlock Press, 2007) - Contains the short story "Empathy"
  • In Delirium II, edited by John Everson (Delirium, 2007) - contains the short story "Concrete Gods" co-written by Harry Shannon
  • At Ease with the Dead: New Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre, edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press, 2007) - Contains the short story "Visiting Hours"
  • Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris (PS Publishing, 2006) - includes an essay by Mr. Burke about the 1980 film The Fog
  • Masques V, edited by Jerry Williamson & Gary A. Braunbeck (Gauntlet Pres, 2006) - Contains the short story "Stirrings"
  • Evermore, edited by James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey (2006, Arkham House) - Contains the short story "From the Wall, a Whisper"
  • Shivers IV, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) - Contains the short story "Prohibited"
  • The Book of Final Flesh (All Flesh Must Be Eaten), edited by James Lowder (2003, Eden Studios) ISBN 1-891-15378-1 - Contains the short story "Not Quite Ghosts"

[edit] Anthologies as editor

"Preview of Brimstone Turnpike", editied by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006)

[edit] Magazine appearances

  • Allen K's Inhuman Magazine #3, edited by Allen Koszowski - includes the short story "Tonight The Moon Is Ours"
  • 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 - includes a comic book adaption by Glenn Chadbourne of the short story "Snowmen"
  • Postscripts #11 - includes the short story "Cobwebs"

[edit] External links and references

  1. ^ Peekers at IMDB
  2. ^ Brimstone Turnpike information on Cemetery Dance website

[edit] See also