Great-opening-lines Quote by Kealan Patrick Burke

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose,…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“Heaven is a construct fabricated by people who can't let go of those they've lost and who wish to relegate the notion of personal…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.”

— Kealan Patrick Burke

The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“I am twelve, John is nine, and we have not yet learned of death. Pain and horror, however, are kindred. They visit us nightly,…

— Kealan Patrick Burke