“She’s dead,” he said. “She got hurt.”
Kara frowned at him. “She’s not dead.”
He gaped at her, sure he hadn’t heard her correctly. “What?”
“She’s in the hospital, but she’s not dead. She asked for you. Told the cop you were her only living kin, so they want you to come up. Wanted you to know she got hurt, but apparently that’s not news to you.”
Stunned, he smiled at her and shook his head.
Kara did not look like she shared his joy. “Seems like trouble just draws you to it, doesn’t it?”
“Thank you,” he told her with genuine warmth. She could stick her arms in and throttle him, or curse him to high Heaven and it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference now because Louise was alive. He was almost afraid to believe it. “Thank you, Ma’am,” he said again and glanced at Claire, who’d been listening. She was smiling at him, a light in her eyes anyone else might have said was simply a reflection of the sun as it crept over the horizon, but he knew better.
About the Author
Born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author described as “a newcomer worth watching” (Publishers Weekly) and “one of the most original authors in contemporary horror” (Booklist).
Some of his works include the novels MASTER OF THE MOORS, CURRENCY OF SOULS and THE HIDES, the novellas THE TURTLE BOY (Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2004), VESSELS, MIDLISTERS, and JACK & JILL, and the collections RAVENOUS GHOSTS, THEATER MACABRE, THE NUMBER 121 TO PENNSYLVANIA & OTHERS (Bram Stoker Award-Nominee, 2009), DEAD OF WINTER, DEAD LEAVES, and THEATER MACABRE.
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Praise for KIN
“If you’re a fan of Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, or movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance, don’t miss Kin. Burke’s novel not only re-imagines the classic slasher tropes, but it invents new ones. Kin is sure to garner Burke a wider readership, awards, and to inspire a slew of new slasher novels and films. This is a modern classic, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
“It’s odd that an Irish transplant to the Northern US has written one of the best Southern Gothic novels in recent memory. I’ll look forward to Burke’s next work just as much as I hated to see this one end. I would highly recommend Kin to lovers of old fashioned horror fiction with a twist.”
“…with this novel, Burke has fully arrived as a novelist…his talent running full throttle… Kin ends a long period of silence from Burke, and has me quite excited to see what’s coming next. It gets my highest possible recommendation.”
“THIS is serious horror fiction that has set a high standard for future stories in this subgenre. Don’t miss it.”
“The blurb will tell you that this is in the vein of the ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and ‘Deliverance’ and, while I can see what they mean, it doesn’t do the book justice. This is not a ‘slasher’ book or a book that reads like a movie. This is far more. This is a novel that begins where the other stories ended and explores the impact such horror has on the survivors, their family and, though we may not like them, the perpetrators of the horror.”
“Kin is not only the best novel I’ve read all year, it is one of the most horrifying ones I’ve ever read.”
“If you took the moral quandaries about revenge, justice and violence against evil from Dennis Lehane’s Patrick Kenzie novels, spread it over the sprawling cast of a Stephen King thriller, and mixed it with the Southern Gothic grotesques of Eudora Welty, you might end up with something like Kealan Patrick Burke’s new novel, Kin.”
Copyright
Copyright 2011 by Kealan Patrick Burke
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