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Theater Macabre

By Kealan Patrick Burke
Theater Macabre by Kealan Patrick Burke digital book - Fable

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A hooded figure wanders a lonesome road waiting for a special someone...A criminal returns home to face old memories and new nightmares...A man awakes to find himself living in a mirror image of reality...and diners at a restaurant find themselves confronted with a terrifying revelation about who and what they are...These are the nineteen nightmarish tales that await you onstage in the THEATER MACABRE...

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke.

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“Horror is a hard genre to write, with Comedy being the hardest. With this anthology, Burke has shown that they are a extremely proficient with the genre of horror and can easily produce a story that is not only horrific in one way or another, but also has an interesting story to tell. I originally picked this anthology up on a whim a long time ago and then decided to give it a shot. The only reason I took so long to mark it as read was because I didn't know what I was going to say for the review. This is an amazing anthology when it comes to storytelling and horror. There are elements that run across the entire horror genre from things that outright shock to things that leave a lingering taste in your mouth long after you finish the story. It is only because of a couple stories that were misses to me that I don't give this a five star review. If I could give it a point review, it would be 4.5 easily in my mind. Burke presents stories that are so much more than a scare or sense of dread. Here are characters that are explored, expanded, developed during the story rather than being a cardboard cutout to set things up. If you are looking for a good horror anthology to read this Halloween, or anytime you have the lights set down low, I highly recommend Theater Macabre. It will chill you and leave you jumping at shadows, something not even the greatest horror writers can do to me these days...”

About Kealan Patrick Burke

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. 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. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy.

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 Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator.

When not writing, Kealan designs book covers  through his company Elderlemon Design.

A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture.

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