Kealan Patrick Burke

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Taverns of the Dead

  • The Hides

    It's been almost seven years since the events of Myers Pond. Seven years since a child rose from the dead, seeking Timmy Quinn's help in finding a murderer, a search that left more questions than answers in its terrifying wake. But for Timmy, the dea...

  • Brimstone Turnpike

  • The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

    Kealan Patrick Burke's first collection RAVENOUS GHOSTS was released in a very limited run, promptly sold out, and now commands high prices on the secondary market. We are very pleased to introduce you to the author's follow-up collection, an ambitio...

  • Ravenous Ghosts

    Enter a world in which a man can make birds fall from the sky and the future can be found in the pages of a comic book…a world in which a thief can pick the worst possible target and find himself stalked by his bounty...a dark place where the writt...

  • The Turtle Boy

    School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery.But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting ...

  • Concrete Gods

    What if life as you know it was a lie?What if the world was not truly ours?What if there were old gods dwelling in the earth beneath our feet?And what if they came back?From award-winning authors Kealan Patrick Burke and Harry Shannon comes a vision ...

  • Saturday Night at Eddie's

    The few souls still left in the dying mining town call it Milestone, but a better name might be Purgatory, for it is nothing less than a prison for those who have done wrong. They are the damned, condemned to murder other sinners for a chance to esca...

  • Dust & Shadow

    From a cop dealing with the ghosts of both a turbulent past and present, and the mournful sound of a lonesome night train, to horrific first days on the ultimate dirty jobs, and urban legends revealed to be all too real, herein lies a collection of m...



  • Dead of Winter

    A troubled man goes to desperate lengths to reconnect with his estranged daughters on Christmas Eve in "Visitation Rights".On a cold moonlit night, a young boy comes to believe that there is something not quite right about the snowmen in his yard in ...

  • Peregrine's Tale

    The fourth volume in the award-winning Timmy Quinn series. At eleven years of age, strange things started to happen to a boy named Timmy Quinn. His ordinary life was abruptly thrown into chaos by the revelation that there exists a separate plane of e...

  • Stage Whispers: The Collected Timmy Quinn Stories

  • Vessels

    On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, an unpiloted boat drifts ashore, watched by a man to whom the dead are something to be feared…In a small stone chapel that stands hunkered against the vicious island winds, a woman whispers a frantic pra...

  • Dead Leaves

    Strange text messages portend a strange kind of apocalypse...Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than...

  • Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season

    Strange text messages portend a strange kind of apocalypse...Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween…A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than memo...

  • Offline

    "What follows is the transcript from a series of screenshots emailed to the Columbus City Police on June 7th, 2011, and subsequently distributed to the media."Everyone has a page...In the last few years, social networking has exploded as one of the b...

  • You In?

    For years the Wickerwood Inn has stood abandoned, home to nothing but dust and the trapped echo of past celebrations...and tragedy. For a down on his luck ex-gambler, the inn's reputation is a thing of myth, and certainly not reason enough to turn do...

  • Underneath

    For Dean, it begins with a dare, one that comes with the threat of violence if he chickens out. All he has to do is date Stephanie Watts, a disfigured girl who is the pariah at their high school. Dean agrees, and soon discovers that there is much mor...

  • The Acquaintance

    For Ger Kelly, coming home after years of incarceration, drug abuse, and violence, is a bittersweet event, but it's worth it for the chance to start a new life. But not everyone is so happy to leave him forget his past, and Ger is about to find out t...



  • Cobwebs

    Retired and whiling away his days in a rest home, Alfred Ross has little to do with his time but remember the things he has lost.But on the morning he awakes to find his face shrouded in cobwebs, he realizes that a new fear has found him: a fear of b...

  • Currency of Souls

    Welcome to Eddie's Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you'll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone's haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of death; Gracie, the barmaid, a wannabe actress, doomed to spend her ho...

  • The Grief Frequency

    After losing his wife in a car accident, a husband struggles with survivor's guilt. But in the dark, he realizes that the dead are never very far away. Not when there are secrets yet to be uncovered. Because Paul hasn't lost everything. Not yet. And ...

  • Mr. Goodnight

    For Kevin and his best friend Joey, summer is a time of adventure, for playing soldiers in the tall grass, sword-fighting, and searching for long-lost treasure.But what they uncover, buried deep in the shadow of an ancient tree, is not treasure, but ...

  • Peekers

    *Soon to be a major motion picture from Lionsgate Entertainment*From the acclaimed, Bram Stoker Award-Nominated collection THE NUMBER 121 TO PENNSYLVANIA...Larry just wants to enjoy the first day of his retirement. But there are a couple of obstacles...

  • Empathy

    It begins with an email containing a link to a video that has to be seen to be believed. A video so horrific it stays in the mind long after it has been watched. And once it finds its way inside your mind, only then does the true nightmare begin. Fro...

  • Midlisters

    No one ever said my work was without merit. Know why? Because I wasn't Hollywood, and I got a free pass because it was literature. I got a free pass because the murder in my books was just a word. Make believe. It meant nothing. Until it happened for...

  • Seldom Seen in August

    Wade Crawford is not a good guy. He’s a bank robber and a ruthless killer, and now three people are dead and Wade is on the run. With the cops hot on his heels, he breaks into a seemingly ordinary house in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood to hide ...

  • Digital Hell: 4 Tales of Techno Horror

    We live in an age of technology. We are inextricably linked to one another, and now we favor convenience over caution. With these four stories, you will be reminded of the cost of complacency in a DIGITAL HELL. Included are the tales:"Empathy", "Seld...

  • Kin

    A new novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY.

    On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of...



  • Theater Macabre

    A hooded figure wanders a lonesome road waiting for a special someone...A criminal returns home to face old memories and new nightmares...A man awakes to find himself living in a mirror image of reality...and diners at a restaurant find themselves co...

  • Thirty Miles South of Dry County

    Milestone is not a town that can be found on any map. Those who are aware of the place avoid it, and those who call it home treat it with a respect borne from fear. A once thriving mining town, the legends of myriad horrors operate as a warning to th...

  • The Toll

    An ageing millionaire wakes on Halloween night to find himself buried in a coffin with only a bell and a lamp for company, a bell meant to alert those above ground that he is alive. But Miles Camden is not quite ready to ring that bell. To him, it's ...

  • Stage Whispers

    STAGE WHISPERS is an omnibus collection of novellas featuring Timmy Quinn, who made his first appearance in the Bram Stoker Award-winning story THE TURTLE BOY in 2004. Over the course of thirty years, we follow a boy cursed with the ability to see gh...

  • The Novellas

    An omnibus collection of four novellas by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke (Kin, The Turtle Boy). Featured in this book are: THE TENT The perfect getaway... The perfect place to hide... Hocking Hills, Ohio is an oasis for campers...

  • The Tent

    The perfect getaway...The perfect place to hide...Hocking Hills, Ohio is an oasis for campers, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and for those who just want to get away and lose themselves in the wild.And as long as you follow your guide's advice and stay ...

  • Nemesis: The Death of Timmy Quinn

    "We no longer need the sun to cast our shadows, for we have become them." For over twenty years Tim Quinn has lived in the shadow of death. Now, the Curtain has come down and the dead no longer need him to facilitate their vengeance. As the air turns...

  • Jack & Jill

    A NEW NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE TURTLE BOY & KIN.When they were kids, Gillian and John used to visit the local cemetery every Sunday after church. It was a curious place for children to frequent, but they had their reasons. The main attraction w...

  • The Witch

    Bryce Carrigan is a deputy in a dying town, a flawed man anchored to a violent past and struggling to create for himself and his pregnant wife a future he is no longer sure he wants. He is a man of questionable integrity, a man who has contributed li...

  • Milestone

    From the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, KIN, and JACK & JILL. Somewhere out west there is a town called Milestone. You will not find it on any map. If you're lucky, you won't find it at all. Once a thriving mining community, t...



  • In the Flesh

    Apathetic Flesh is brimful of realistic characters immersed in nightmares hauntingly familiar for many of us, but it is to Godfrey’s credit that even the outlandish events you’ll uncover here are made believable by a distinct absence of melodrama...

  • The Palaver

    Milestone is a haunted place, but it was not always so hostile or so desolate. Once upon a time it thrived, even as a war tore apart the world beyond its borders. Until a pale stranger came sauntering up out of the mine armed with nothing more than a...

  • Sour Candy

    At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is...

  • Blanky

    In the wake of his infant daughter's tragic death, Steve Brannigan is struggling to keep himself together. Estranged from his wife, who refuses to be inside the house where the unthinkable happened, and unable to work, he seeks solace in an endless p...

  • Tales From The Lake

    The Legend Continues… Twenty-four heart-rending tales with elements of terror, mystery, and a nightmarish darkness that knows no end. Welcome to my lake. Welcome to where dreams and hope are illusions…and pain is God.  Th...

  • Bad Apples

    “Brutal, humorous and utterly terrifying.” -- Allan Leverone, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

    Buckle up for a journey into Halloween eternal. This special collection features all three volumes of the highly rated Bad Ap...

  • Tales of the Lost Citadel Novel

    The city is called Redoubt, and as far as anyone knows, it is the last. Seven decades ago, there were cities upon cities; kingdoms and nations, the remains of ancient empire. Cultures at war, cultures at trade. Humans, dwarves...

  • We Live Inside Your Eyes

    In the ruins of an old parking garage, there is an effigy lashed to a pillar. To anyone else, the remains of the woman with the goat skull head is a warning. To a lonely young boy looking for escape, it is a god of salvation. At its feet lay tattered...

  • Other Voices, Other Tombs

    OTHER VOICES, OTHER TOMBS is an anthology packed with unsettling stories from the finest independent authors in the horror genre. This collection runs the gamut of styles, including everything from literary horror to creepypasta. Ania Ahlborn, Kealan...

  • The House on Abigail Lane

    From the outside, it looks like an ordinary American home, but since its construction in 1956, people have vanished as soon as they go upstairs, the only clues the things they leave behind: a wedding ring, a phone...an eye. In its sixty-year his...



  • Campfire Macabre

    50+ original flash horror tales organized by five themes: Spook Houses, Slashers, Witchcraft, Within the Woods, and Cemetery Chillers. A book perfect for time spent around the campfire or on a long car trip! Brand new pieces from award-winning au...

  • John Carpenter's Night Terrors: SOUR CANDY

    Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendelton's teeth fell out.At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. Some might say the father i...

  • Guests

    After the death of the woman who raised him and the realization that the girl he loves will never love him back, young Mark Callahan decides it's time to leave the small harbor town of Miriam's Cove for good. All that remains is one last shift at The...

  • Sunny Pines

    After an absence of twenty-two years, childhood friends Connor, Miguel, and Jelica agree to meet at Sunny Pines, the mobile home park where they grew up. Sunny Pines had always been a violent place, where drugs and crime were prevalent and visits fro...

  • Grim Portraits

    What do you see when you look at a painting? The image, the brush strokes, the stippled canvas beneath? What if you looked beyond it? And what do you know about the person who created that picture that's hanging on your wall? They say art requires a ...

  • Secret Faces

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    "If you are hiding from yourself, don't expect anyone else to see you." Everyone has a secret. Everyone is someone else when the world isn't looking. Sometimes that person is good, sometimes that person is not. In SECRET FACES, Bram Stoker Award-winn...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kealan Patrick Burke has published 55 books.

Kealan Patrick Burke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Grim Portraits, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Kealan Patrick Burke, Taverns of the Dead, was published in February 2005.

No. Kealan Patrick Burke does not write books in series.
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