the level of detail should have lent itself to creating a picture in the reader's head, but it just felt like KPB was a high school student trying to hit the word count on his essay. sentences were stretched into paragraphs, paragraphs into pages, etc. Ok, i've gotta write a review to get my thoughts down or else come the end of the month i'm gonna have no clue wtf i read in here.

Maybe a 1.5? i really try not to use half stars, but this wasn’t the worst thing ever, just soooooo sooooo disappointing. 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. back into the heart of darkness.īorn 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. In the spirit of such iconic horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance, Kin begins at the end and studies the possible aftermath for the survivors of such traumas upon their return to the real world - the guilt, the grief, the thirst for revenge - and sets them on an unthinkable journey. a dream which will be realized as grief and rage turn good people into cold-blooded murderers and force alliances among strangers. In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent years trying to outrun.Īnd Claire, the only survivor of the Elkwood Massacre, haunted by her dead friends, dreams of vengeance.

She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers - a family of cannibalistic lunatics - are closing in.Ī soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.

On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity.

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