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 Night Terrors
Sour Candy
2006
The Grief Frequency
2011
Guests
2022
Memory Lane
2015
Thirty Miles South of Dry County
2012
October Screams
A Halloween Anthology
2023
Blanky
2017
Vessels
2006
Currency of Souls
2007
Brimstone Turnpike
2008
The House on Abigail Lane
2020
Offline
2011
Peekers
2006
Grim Portraits
Six Stories About the Dark Side of Art
2023
Saturday Night at Eddie's
2010
You In?
2007
Obsolescence
A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology
2023
Seldom Seen in August
2008
Cobwebs
2011
Digital Hell
4 Tales of Techno Horror
2012
Master of the Moors
2008
Empathy
2011
Underneath
2010
Kin
2011
Zippered Flesh 2
2013
The Acquaintance
2011
Dead of Winter
2010
Bah! Humbug! An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories
2016
Nemesis
The Death of Timmy Quinn
2012
The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others
2008
Peregrine's Tale
2010
Midlisters
2007
The Witch
2013
Mr. Goodnight
2011
The Hides
2005
The Toll
A Halloween Short Story
2012
In the Flesh
2014
We Live Inside Your Eyes
2019
Milestone
The Collected Stories
2014
Dead Leaves
9 Tales from the Witching Season
2011
Orphans of Bliss
Tales of Addiction Horror
2022
Secret Faces
2016
Jack & Jill
2013
Hellboy
An Assortment of Horrors
2017
Campfire Macabre
2020
Distinguishing Features
2021
Aberrations
Horror Stories
2011
The Tent
2013
The Turtle Boy
2004
Sour Candy
2015
