Sour Candy was my Halloween night read in 2020. I mean, what can I say, it's what I like. Horrifying, grisly, stomach-churning and haunting I loved every minute of it. This feels weird to say due to its hella dark and disturbing content, but alas, it's true. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design.Ī movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer.
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