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Kealan Patrick Burke

Born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke is 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, the novellas The Turtle Boy (Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2004) and Vessels, and the collections Ravenous Ghosts, and The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others.

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, 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.

You can contact Kealan at: kealan@kealanpatrickburke.com

A comprehensive bibliography can be found at the author's website.
Kealan Patrick Burke
 
Currency Of Souls

"...a gripping horror novel whose motley cast of characters drink the evening away in a seedy bar, Eddie's Tavern, in a dying town called Milestone. Each is stained by-and may even have caused-an ugly death that still haunts him or her...At the haunting conclusion, escape proves only a brief respite from damnation." -- Publishers Weekly

“Burke writes one memorable sentence after another, ratchets the action up at an alarming pace and by the time the going gets weird, you know that Burke is a pro… You get that collection of odd personalities, each with a great backstory. But you get those backstories in the context of a really, really eventful night at the ol’ Tavern. Lives will end, at least for a short while. Undeaths will begin. Murders will be committed and if not solved, perhaps they’ll get resolved." --Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column

"...
[Burke's] most original and compelling novel" --Horror-World

Coming in February 2007 from Subterranean Press
www.subterraneanpress.com
www.kealanpatrickburke.com

 

Global Gothic Exclusives:

Introduction to Currency of Souls by Kealan Patrick Burke

Prologue to the story of Currency of Souls

 

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