* The reality of addiction is darker than any fiction. * "Drinking and drugging provide the height of human experience. It's the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness." Before I read even one story in this 'reality horror' anthology - Mark Ma...
This is a truly excellent collection of short stories all about the struggle of addiction. All have a horror twist and there isn’t a dud in the bunch. If I didn’t have to work, feed and clean up after people all the live-long day, I would’ve finished it in one sitting because it’s that good. I’m not...
Sour Candy has been on my to-read list for quite a while. It looked like it would be a fun, twisted story.It was a fun, twisted story. Kealan Patrick Burke has one heck of an imagination and I can't wait to read more of his work.I'm never going to look at obnoxious screaming children the same way ag...
A standalone prequel to a new series, this short read details the beginnings of a town affected by amnesia. Glenn is a resident of Kincaid, his life is slipping out of control a little as he is passed over for promotion and has had no luck getting a second job to maintain his family's financial secu...
I have read so many books and don’t have time to do long reviews for all of them, but I do want to share my thoughts. So…here is my… One Sentence Review Where Darkness Dwells by Glen R Krisch Goodreads / Amazon MY REVIEW Coal mining and the great depression are horrors in their own righ...
A decent if largely predictable story that mixes ghosts, revenge and a coming of age tale, The Turtle Boy apparently kick-started Kealan Patrick Burke's career and for that I'm grateful. However it reads like an early novella in that it lacks much of the polish and incredible wordsmithing that Burke...
“…I figure if you’re here with me now, then clearly we share some common interests, not the least of which is an appreciation of blunt force fiction.” - KPBSecret Faces is a very well done collection of shorts from one of the masters of dark fiction. Kealan seems to thrive in the short format and it...
The perfect sequel to Mark Matthews urban horror tale of drug addiction and extreme dysfunction, “Milk-Blood”. I didn’t think it could get much bleaker than MB. I was wrong. Lilly is back. So is the heartbreak, tragedy and shear brutality. There are no rainbows and unicorns in this one and there sho...
One of the more nuanced and tension filled novels of the modern era, Kealan Patrick Burke's Kin is only the more remarkable for the fact that it is not written by an author from the backwoods areas of the United States, but rather an Irishman who visited the U.S. to research this writing.Burke start...
Guilt. It can eat you from the inside out until you're hollow inside. Paul learns first-hand the power guilt can have over you when he convinces his wife that they should attempt to drive home instead of waiting for a storm to pass. As luck would have it, Paul loses control and his wife is killed in...
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