#Kealan Patrick Burke

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Suntup Editions To Release The Definitive Edition of Kin By Kealan Patrick Burke

Suntup Editions is pleased to present the definitive edition of Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke, featuring a new introduction and illustrations by the author, as well as a brand-new prequel novella, Cottonmouth. Kealan Patrick Burke First released in 2011, Kin was hailed as “one of the best Southern gothic novels in recent memory” (Dark Discoveries) and “a modern classic” (Fearnet), making an…

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#Books #Kealan Patrick Burke #Kin #Suntup Editions

[vulcandyke]

reading a book about a demon child who picks a random guy to be his parent and my mom texts me to tell me she found an unsupervised baby outside. hm.

#i know the baby is not a demon its just a weird coincidence and also dont worry the authorities were notified and the parents were found #just a very weird coincidence #the book is sour candy by kealan patrick burke btw #rambles

[witchyfashion]

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 certain acceptable degree of madness. What secrets then lie beyond the pigment in the darkness between depiction and delusion?

Herein you'll find stories about self-destructive lovers on a quest to find themselves while getting lost in each other ("Sometimes They See Me"), meet a man who wakes to find himself bound to a chair in a gallery of nightmarish paintings ("The Binding"), discover how one horrific act converts a child's grief into artistic talent in "The Portrait", witness the unveiling of an art collector's most precious and macabre find in "The Acquisition", visit a comic book store with a pair of thieves intent on robbing a man they don't know is expecting them ("The Barbed Lady Wants for Nothing"), and read a roadie's account of a band's final days after they discover "The Amp."

Inspired by Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY, GRIM PORTRAITS features six stories of art, madness, and horror by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke.

https://amzn.to/3SvESnb

#night gallery #horror

[wyrdsistergoldenhair]

Books Read in 2023

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (2022)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

Dr. Mütter's Marvel's: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2014)

Devil House: A Novel by John Darnielle (2022)

The Shadows by Alex North (2020)

Lucky Girl: How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert (2022)

The Hunger by Alma Katsu (2018)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (1995)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (2016)

The Troop by Nick Cutter (2014)

The Deep by Nick Cutter (2015)

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (2022)*

Audition by Ryū Murakami (2010)

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (1937)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes by Suzanne Collins (2020)

The Hunger Games #1: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)*

The Hunger Games #2: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009)*

The Hunger Games #3: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (2010)*

The Mist by Stephen King (1980)*

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (2017)

Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke (2015)

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream: Stories by Harlan Ellison (1967)

Sphere: A Novel by Michael Crichton (1987)

Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon (2023)

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson (2015)

All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce (2022)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman*

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (1985)

Stardust by Neil Gaiman (1997)*

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)*

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (2022)

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (2017)

Simon Snow #1: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (2015)*

Simon Snow #2: Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (2019)*

Simon Snow #3: Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (2021)*

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens (2021)

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (2021)*

The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell (1962)

The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Hewitt (2023)

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (2023)

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (2010)

Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane edited by Jonathan Oliver (2012)

#christopher golden #joyce carol oates #stephen graham jones #john darnielle #octavia e butler #victor lavalle #nick cutter #t kingfisher #ernest hemingway #the hunger games #suzanne collins #stephen king #harlan ellison #michael crichton #neil gaiman #nimona #rf kuang #simon snow trilogy #rainbow rowell #cassandra khaw #chuck tingle

[belovedhomo]

1 and 24 for the book ask!! :D

Thank you! I track these things obsessively. I've read 28 full length books! And I've DNF'd 12 books.

thanks for asking!

Here's a list of both:

Read (bold = favorite)

Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen

Negative Space - BR Yeager

The House in Abigail Lane - Kealan Patrick Burke

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Different Seasons - Stephen King

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon

Found: An Anthology of Found Footage

Scanlines - Todd Keisling

This is Where We Talk Things Out - Caitlin Marceau

The World Cannot Give - Tara Isabella Burton

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Fluids - May Leitz

The Elementals - Michael McDowell

Educated - Tara Westover

Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Psychic Teenage Bloodbath - Carl John Lee

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (reread)

Mister Magic - Kiersten White

The Last Days of Jack Sparks - Jason Arnopp

The Bayou - Arden Powell

The Iliad - Homer

Helpmeet - Naben Ruthnum

The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie

Intercepts - TJ Payne

and i'm hoping to finish at least 5 more books, but we shall see! (Les Mis, The Once Yellow House, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Penance, and Pet Sematary)

as for DNFs;

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss: Too tedious even for me

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay: I feel there's more up to date feminist literature to read

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Catherine Lacey: as a Mexican, the way she talked about death and corpses left a bad taste in my mouth.

Kentukis - Samanta Schwelbin (Little Eyes in the translation): Gave up on this author, the stories went nowhere at all.

Heaven - Mieko Kawakami: I felt this book was going to leave me with nothing

Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel: This is just the set up for something very NGE and I didn't wanna commit to a saga

Anybody Home? by Michael J Seidlinger: Tries too hard

Ugly Girls - Lindsay Hunter: Wouldn't give me what i was craving atm

The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie: Too infodumpy

Brutes - Dizz Tate: Wasn't providing what I needed

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers: cringe

Stolen Tongues - Felix Blackwell: A creepypasta turned book that extends too much, weird treatment of Native American characters.

#inbox

[briankeene]

October Screams

October Screams is a new anthology featuring a brand-new short story by Brian Keene and Richard Chizmar called “Masks”. It also features stories from Jeremy Bates, Kealan Patrick Burke, Clay McLeod Chapman, Philip Fracassi, Todd Keisling, Gwendolyn Kiste, Red Lagoe, Ronald Malfi, Bridgett Nelson, Rebecca Rowland, Steve Rasnic Tem, TJ Cimfel, Cassandra Daucus, Ryan Van Ells, Patrick Flanagan, Brennan Fredricks, Larry Hinkle, Larry Hodges, Kevin Kangas, Evans Light, Gregory L. Norris, Frank Oreto, Robert Stahl, Cat Voleur and Jacqueline West. Available in paperback and hardcover here.

[sevicia]

Also I think the last book I posted about was Psycho.... So:

Fight Club: easy 5⭐, I loved the writing style though some people said they found it confusing / annoying ?. & I also just idk there's this specific category that this book goes into inside my head that idk how to describe. But I like it a lot boooo 👎👎👎 Also. This book, Just by Radiohead. You understand.

The Amityville Horror: 3⭐, it was funnnn ! It checks all the "haunted / possessed house" boxes (foul smell, cold temperatures, changes in behavior, etc), & IDK I actually liked it for what it was and it was a silly little "scary" story

Bloom Into You vol. 3: I don't rate manga / comics cause I'd just always 5⭐ every single one, but I really do love this manga waaaah, it's so.... it's so sweet to see all the characters try to figure themselves out & what they feel for eachother, it kind of makes me wish my teenage years had gone differently LOL but yeah. Also I love Sayaka she's kinda shady I love her mwah

Sour Candy (by Kealan Patrick Burke): I gave this one 3⭐, I had read one (1) book by this author before (called Kin) & I didn't really like it because it was just... weird... in a bad way... But this one was a lot better, still not GREAT but okay. I didn't like the very ending because I felt like it didn't line up with the story up until that point but whatever the entire thing is like ridiculous. I feel like he tried very hard to make certain things scary but it fell flat at times. Still I had fun, I read it in between classes at uni 👍

If you read this ILY thank you for indulging my frustrated booktuber dreams </3

#much to think about #I'm currently reading 3 books #mary: an awakening of terror + a crooked tree + himno del ángel parado en una pata #the last one had a WEIRD phrase that made me really uncomfortable though

[stephrabig]

I will be making a giant "Hey, here's all my books!" post soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to babble about this one. ❤️

Working on it helped me realize that historical horror is absolutely My Thing. The reception has been amazing (thank you so much, horror community!) and I adore the cover art from Kealan Patrick Burke entirely too much.

Synopsis:

"When a prairie-mad settler murders Milton Allen's brother and his entire family, the wealthy rancher offers an enormous bounty to bring the culprit in. Ada Marshall and Pearl Beckwourth, bounty hunters with twenty years experience, assume this is yet another straightforward job.

But when a fellow bounty hunter is torn to pieces not fifty feet away from their camp, their natural wariness grows, and in the tiny, isolated valley town of Woodlawn, they learn that the attacker may not even be human..."

https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Land-Stephanie-Rabig-ebook/dp/B09XZ14KSM/

#historical horror #horror #horrornovels #queer horror #books #i wrote this #*flail* #western #horror western

[joshuagjinsole]

Book Review: 'Sour Candy' by Kealan Patrick Burke

Kealan Patrick Burke’s ‘Sour Candy’ is the penultimate book on my 2023 reading list. After devouring Hill’s gargantuan ‘NOS4A2’, I wanted something short and sharp. Burke’s novella fit the bill; others in horror book groups had recommended it all year. The story follows a divorced, child-free man in a relationship with his girlfriend. One chance encounter in a supermarket and things soon go…

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#bookreview #candy #Children #Horror #novella

[cyrereads]

Novella Review - Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke

This was a good, spooky novella. I'd definitely watch a movie of this. Honestly if it were a full on book I'd be intrigued the whole way. I honestly wish there was more. More lore, more torment, more of Phil losing his mind. 

3.5/5 stars

#horror #book tumblr #book blog #currently reading #books and reading #booklr #books #book review #book reviews #book recommendations #bookworm

[poemstainedlips]

People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance.

– Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

[andreablythe]

Culture Consumption: November 2022

Culture Consumption: November 2022

Hi, lovelies. Here’s my month in books, movies, television, and games. Books The opening of Kealan Patrick Burke’s Sour Candy happened in a supermarket. Our main character, Phil Pendleton, goes to the supermarket and witnesses a bizarre and unsettling event involving a women and her child — one of the most uncomfortable scenes that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. When he leaves this moment…

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#book love #books #games #movies #reviews #television

[lucyasnyder]

That Which Cannot Be Undone

That Which Cannot Be Undone

My short story “Avocation” appears in the new all-Ohio horror anthology That Which Cannot Be Undone from Cracked Skull Press. The book was edited by Jess Landry and also features stories by Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Waggoner, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Megan Hart. The anthology was originally launched on Kickstarter but is available through most online bookseller.   Beneath Ohio’s…

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#anthology #horror #short stories

[belovedhomo]

3, 6, and 14 for books :3

thanks abby i'll die for u

top five of the year:

sorrowland by river solomon

say nothing by patrick radden keefe

patricia wants to cuddle by samantha allen

mister magic by kiersten white

the house in abigail lane by kealan patrick burke

stuff i was meant to read but didn't get to:

probably won't finish les mis by the end of the month, i was also meaning to finish dracula, and i started gideon the ninth but i am at page 100 and i'm unsure if it's for me

books i wanna finish by the end of the year:

i'm currently on page 877 of les mis (bc i started at page 500 but shhh), at 50% of the once yellow house, and 62% of the ballad of songbirds and snakes on audiobook, and "my husband" is pretty short. i also wanna read penance and i feel i'll devour it. but i'm also full of work so we shall see!

thanks again abby for indulging me

#inbox

[creeperhawke]

#happy halloween #halloween 2022