Kealan Patrick Burke

NEW NOVEL: THE WIDOWS OF WINDING GALE

 

Coming in October 2025 from Earthling Publications.

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For the people on the rugged Irish island of Winding Gale, life has always been hard. now in the wake of the second World War, the island is dying, the young taken away by death or the appeal of better lives elsewhere, leaving behind only a handful of adults.

 

But on the night the men of the island disappear while fishing in uncharted waters, the women are forced into a conflict with something both new and unfathomably old.

 

A strange greenish mist rolls in, cutting off the island from the mainland. Spiral symbols appear in the sand, fashioned from dead fish and stones. Seductive voices lure people from their homes to walk into the sea. Ancient ships materialize in the fog. And specters of the past will rise to take their vengeance in blood.

 

Because this is Samhain, a time when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest, and there is something rising from the deep that will thrust the women of Winding Gale into a war against an unspeakable evil.

 

From Kealan Patrick Burke, the Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy, The Windows of Winding Gale is a nightmarish homage to the seminal work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, and John Carpenter.

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With cover art and interior illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne and an introduction by Nathan Ballingrud.

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You can download a PDF file of CHAPTER ONE here.

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“A lonely island, a fog rolling in, missing fishermen, and a hideous evil emerges from the sea…The Widows of Winding Gale is pitch-perfect, spine-tingling horror. Burke gives a master class in isolation and dread, so chilling that the author should take a bow at the end.” —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Birds and All Hallows