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Kealan Patrick Burke

@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social

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Irish guy stranded in Ohio. Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of books, graphic novels, and screenplays. THE WIDOWS OF WINDING GALE coming 10/25 from Earthling Publications linktr.ee/kealanpatrickburke

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 7d

10 #Eldritch #Horror books for your TBR:

@johnlangan.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@tkingfisher.com
@pdjeliclark.bsky.social
@williamfgrayfic.bsky.social
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
@lucyasnyder.bsky.social
@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 14d

Checked out the preview chapter available from Earthling Publishing & damn, I cannot wait until 25 October to read the rest of this one from @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 15d

Mail Call! New one from friend @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social Got my Halloween Season Read.

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · 15d

Kickass, man. I hope you dig it, and thanks for grabbing a copy!

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Ben Pienaar @benpienaar.bsky.social · 17d

Keen as hell to finally have something coming out again! Get ready...

In the mean time check out this badass cover by the great @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social at elderlemon designs!

If you like bittersweet, noir horror, pre-order here: acesse.one/mw164

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · 16d

Congrats Ben!

Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · 18d

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Steven Gomzi @stevengomzi.bsky.social · 22d

Not sure if it’s sold out yet, but if you get a chance to get your hands on a copy of Earthling Publications The Widows Of Winding Gale by @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social - do it! 100 pages in- I can’t put it down, and it’s well on its way to being an all time favorite!

#booksky

Signed hardcover of The The Widows Of Winding Gale by Kealan Patrick Burke, with gorgeous cover art by Glenn Chadbourne. On the cover: a fishing boat coming upon a shipwreck on a tumultuous sea.

Back cover to The Widows Of Winding Gale. Featuring well deserved high praise for the book from fellow authors.

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · 22d

This is wonderful to hear, Steven, thank you! Copies are indeed sold out from the publisher, but there should still be some copies available at places like Camelot and Kathmandu.

Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · 23d

Cheers Steven! I hope you dig it!

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Steven Gomzi @stevengomzi.bsky.social · 23d

#bookmail

It’s here, and it’s beautiful! The signed and numbered edition of The Widows Of Winding Gale by @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social , with an introduction by Nathan Ballingrud. Earthling makes some lovely books, and this looks like perfect Autumn reading!

Title page to The Widows Of Winding Gale. The book is # 206 and the page contains signatures from Kealan Patrick Burke and Nathan Ballingrud.

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thanks Lauren!

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Small world!

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

I live in Columbus (previously Delaware, OH), so I enjoy setting stories here.

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

😆👍

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

That’s amazing! They might be interested in THE TENT, then, which is set in Hocking Hills.

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Josh Link @joshthelink.bsky.social · Sep 9

Read some books recently by @danielkraus.com, @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social, @brianmcwriter.bsky.social, and Emily Brontë (I don’t think she’s on BlueSky).

open.substack.com/pub/joshlink...

Recent Readings

Some recent novels and novellas I’ve read

open.substack.com

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks a million, Josh!

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m thrilled with it :)

Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Courtesy of Paul Miller, the gorgeous hardcover copy of my new novel THE WIDOWS OF WINDING GALE arrived today, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, with an introduction by Nathan Ballingrud, and kind words from Christopher Golden, Sarah Langan, and Philip Fracassi:

www.earthlingpub.com/kp_widows.html

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Now @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social's incredible cover for @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS is out in the world... we're very happy to share what some early readers have to say about it

You might recognise some of them :)

"Mesmerizing, with a quiet but profound sense of dread"
Rachel Harrison,
USA Today
Bestselling author of
PLAY NICE and
SO THIRSTY

"Brennan LaFaro builds dread with the best of them, and The Denizens is a creeping and macabre passage through grief and regret, terror and devotion, hope and pain. What lurks on the outskirts of Maylene's Hollow will come for you no matter how prepared you think you might be."
Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND and
HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING

"Brennan LaFaro delivers a haunting Southern Gothic where grief, small-town secrets, and ancient horrors converge. In Maylene's Hollow, the living and the damned walk side by side-and once you enter, the denizens never let you leave. Exceptionally terrifying!"
Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Shoemaker's Magician

Promo image for THE DENIZENS, showing the cover art - a dense forest containing a settlement of houses, a tunnel and a quarry seen from overhead, the aerial effect creating the appearance of a human skull

Text reads: COMING FEBRUARY 2026

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Aug 25

Cover Reveal! This sounds so good! "...Forced to wander the earth for hundreds of years, the denizens of the woods have had enough..."
pre-order:
a.co/d/bEGQ4Q3
The Denizens by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social coming 2/26
from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
Cover: @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social

THE DENIZENS - Brennan LaFaro Author of Slattery Falls
“Mesmerizing, with a quiet but profound sense of dread” – Rachel Harrison, USA Today Bestselling author of PLAY NICE and SO THIRSTY

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Kealan Patrick Burke @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social · Aug 24

I feel bad because there’s a very nice person on there who hasn’t published much but she’s so bloody earnest in dispensing terrible advice, I haven’t the heart to interject.

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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · Aug 24

This happened to me, and I wrote about it (and other scams) almakatsu.substack.com/p/scams

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