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Kealan Patrick Burke
NEW NOVELLA: THE STAR OF THE SHOW
I'm excited to announce my horror western THE STAR OF THE SHOW, a new novella available now as a FREE ebook via Subterranean Press.
SubPress ebooks are available in ePub format, without DRM.
"First published by Subterranean Press in 2007, Kealan Patrick Burke’s novel Currency of Souls introduced us to the dying town of Milestone, a place that for all its desolation may harbor a very sinister and unusual kind of life.
In The Star of the Show, a new novella, we are thrust back to Western times, where we’ll meet Judd Mallick, a dangerous outlaw with a trail of bodies in his wake. When he crosses the border into Milestone, he is unaware that the invisible barriers of the town have closed behind him, and will stay shut until Judd plays his role in the madness that’s to come. From the gunslinging dandy named Cadaver, to Iris Gale, a woman who claims to be from another time, and a lawman convinced the town is a god, Judd soon finds himself embroiled in a heist where the prize might be his very soul.
Because Milestone has been dormant a long time. Now it’s waking up, and it’ll take nothing short of a miracle for Judd to make it out of there alive.
But as everyone who lives there knows…there are no miracles in Milestone."
https://subterraneanpress.com/the-star-of-the-show/
In addition to the Subterranean ebook, the book is also available in paperback via Amazon.
NOW AVAILABLE: COTTONMOUTH (The Prequel to KIN)
A thrilling prequel to Kealan Patrick Burke's southern gothic horror novel KIN, COTTONMOUTH is set in the aftermath of the Great Depression in Tennessee, a time of religious fervor and charlatanism, of thieves, murderers, and moonshiners.
Here you'll meet Horseshoe Collins, a traveler on a vengeful search for the father who abandoned him; Billy Wray, a snake-handling Pentecostal preacher bringing the promise of salvation to rural communities paralyzed by fear of the Devil; and Jonah Merrill, a child grieving the loss of his beloved father and tormented by his mother's wrath.
With the threat of a second World War looming on the horizon, destiny will bring these three people together and set innocent young Jonah on the path to his eventual fate and a new name: Papa-In-Gray, the patriarch of the dreaded Merrill family whose horrific exploits were first introduced to the world in KIN.
