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. 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. Another movie based on his short story "The Quiet" was in production at Artificial Films in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but that fell through. In 2009 has his first acting role in the Independent film Slime City Massacre, who stars on the side from Debbie Rochon.

Selected Bibliography more less

Novels

Currency of Souls (Subterranean Press)
Master of the Moors (first released as a serialized e-novel in 2002, scheduled for publication by Necessary Evil Press during 2009)

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.

The Living (from Underland Press)

Long Fiction

Midlisters (Biting Dog Press)
You In? (Bad Moon Books)
Looking Glass - A collaborative effort, round robin style story co-authored by Gary A. Braunbeck, Dominick Cancilla, Ray Garton, Joe Hill, Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert Morrish, Tom Piccirilli, Al Sarrantonio, John Skipp, and Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance Signature Series #1, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-125-5

Timmy Quinn series

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

The Turtle Boy (Necessary Evil Press, 2004) ISBN 0-97536-350-6 - Winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction
The Hides (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005) ISBN 1-58767-120-4 - Nominated for a 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
Vessels (Bloodletting Press, 2006) ISBN 0-97685-313-2
The Turtle Boy: Peregrine's Tale (Cemetery Dance Publications, forthcoming 2008) ISBN 978-1-58767-195-1

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

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania and Others (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008) ISBN 978-1-58767-168-5

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

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"

Anthologies as editor

Quietly Now (a tribute to Charles L. Grant), edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Borderlands 2004). - Nominated for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
Tales From the Gorezone (Apt 42 Publications, 2004) - featuring John R. Little, Brian Keene, Gary A. Braunbeck and many more. Also features Mr. Burke's "Drown Not Thyself"
Taverns of the Dead, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005) ISBN 1-58767-082-8
Night Visions 12, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Subterranean Press, 2006) ISBN 1-59606-070-0 - features short stories by Simon Clark, Mark Morris, and P.D. Cacek
Brimstone Turnpike, editied by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008)

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

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"

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