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Kealan Patrick Burke
Author · 62 books

Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency.

Series

Books

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight book cover

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight

Vol. 5: More Twisted Tales Masterfully Crafted for Your Terror

2019

John Carpenter's Night Terrors book cover

John Carpenter's Night Terrors

Sour Candy

2006

Sunny Pines book cover

Sunny Pines

2023

The Grief Frequency book cover

The Grief Frequency

2011

Guests book cover

Guests

2022

Memory Lane book cover

Memory Lane

2015

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 51 book cover

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 51

2005

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight book cover

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight

Vol. 3: More Twisted Tales Masterfully Crafted for Your Terror

2017

Thirty Miles South of Dry County book cover

Thirty Miles South of Dry County

2012

October Screams book cover

October Screams

A Halloween Anthology

2023

Barbers & Beauties book cover

Barbers & Beauties

2013

Blanky book cover

Blanky

2017

Vessels book cover

Vessels

2006

Currency of Souls book cover

Currency of Souls

2007

Brimstone Turnpike book cover

Brimstone Turnpike

2008

The House on Abigail Lane book cover

The House on Abigail Lane

2020

Offline book cover

Offline

2011

Peekers book cover

Peekers

2006

Grim Portraits book cover

Grim Portraits

Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art

2023

Saturday Night at Eddie's book cover

Saturday Night at Eddie's

2010

You In? book cover

You In?

2007

Obsolescence book cover

Obsolescence

A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

2023

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 47 book cover

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 47

2003

Seldom Seen in August book cover

Seldom Seen in August

2008

Cobwebs book cover

Cobwebs

2011

Digital Hell book cover

Digital Hell

4 Tales of Techno Horror

2012

Master of the Moors book cover

Master of the Moors

2008

Empathy book cover

Empathy

2011

Underneath book cover

Underneath

2010

Kin book cover

Kin

2011

Zippered Flesh 2 book cover

Zippered Flesh 2

2013

The Acquaintance book cover

The Acquaintance

2011

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight book cover

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight

Vol. 8: More Twisted Tales Masterfully Crafted for Your Terror

2022

Dead of Winter book cover

Dead of Winter

2010

Bah! Humbug! An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories book cover

Bah! Humbug! An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories

2016

Nemesis book cover

Nemesis

The Death of Timmy Quinn

2012

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others book cover

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

2008

Peregrine's Tale book cover

Peregrine's Tale

2010

Midlisters book cover

Midlisters

2007

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight book cover

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight

Vol. 2: More Twisted Tales Masterfully Crafted for Your Terror

2016

The Witch book cover

The Witch

2013

Mr. Goodnight book cover

Mr. Goodnight

2011

The Hides book cover

The Hides

2005

The Toll book cover

The Toll

A Halloween Short Story

2012

In the Flesh book cover

In the Flesh

2014

We Live Inside Your Eyes book cover

We Live Inside Your Eyes

2019

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 58 book cover

Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 58

Charlie Grant Tribute Issue

2008

Milestone book cover

Milestone

The Collected Stories

2014

Dead Leaves book cover

Dead Leaves

9 Tales from the Witching Season

2011

Orphans of Bliss book cover

Orphans of Bliss

Tales of Addiction Horror

2022

Secret Faces book cover

Secret Faces

2016

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight book cover

John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight

Vol. 5: More Twisted Tales Masterfully Crafted for Your Terror

2019

Jack & Jill book cover

Jack & Jill

2013

Hellboy book cover

Hellboy

An Assortment of Horrors

2017

Campfire Macabre book cover

Campfire Macabre

2020

Night Falls on Memory Lane

2015

Distinguishing Features book cover

Distinguishing Features

2021

Aberrations book cover

Aberrations

Horror Stories

2011

The Tent book cover

The Tent

2013

The Palaver book cover

The Palaver

2015

The Turtle Boy book cover

The Turtle Boy

2004

Sour Candy book cover

Sour Candy

2015

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