Nerve Endings
About this ebook
You can tell yourself that sound you heard outside the house on Halloween night was nothing. You can pretend you didn't see that awful thing in the middle of the road while you were jogging. You can even ignore the old man sitting in the yard who claims he must keep watch on a door that nobody else can see. And you can act like you don't know what lurks in that long-forgotten pool hidden away behind your neighborhood.
But true horror cannot be ignored.
From the nightmare of addiction and the throes of grief-induced insanity, to an app designed to cure your phobias, and a musician who can cast you into hell by simply playing a song, herein you'll find a menagerie of malevolent tales to chill the blood and expose the kind of terrors that will strip away your comfort and drag their splintered nails along your NERVE ENDINGS.
Featuring an introduction and story notes by the author.
About the author
Hailed by Booklist as “one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror,” Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Ireland and emigrated to the United States a few weeks before 9/11.
Since then, he has written six novels, among them the popular southern gothic KIN, and over two hundred short stories and novellas, many of which are in various stages of development for film/TV.
A five-time nominee, Burke won the Bram Stoker Award in 2005 for his coming-of-age novella THE TURTLE BOY, the first book in the acclaimed Timmy Quinn series.
As editor, he helmed the anthologies NIGHT VISIONS 12, TAVERNS OF THE DEAD, and QUIETLY NOW, a tribute anthology to one of Burke’s influences, the late Charles L. Grant.
More recently, he wrote the screenplays for SOUR CANDY (based on his novella), and the remake of the iconic horror film THE CHANGELING (1980), for producer Joel B. Michaels.
He also adapted SOUR CANDY as a graphic novel for John Carpenter's NIGHT TERRORS.
His most recent release is COTTONMOUTH, a prequel to KIN.
THE WIDOWS OF WINDING GALE, a maritime horror novel set in Ireland, is due for release in October as a signed limited edition from Earthling Publications.
Kealan is represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.
He lives in Ohio with a Scooby Doo lookalike rescue named Red.
