Dust & Shadow

From a cop dealing with the ghosts of both a turbulent past and present, and the mournful sound of a lonesome night train, to horrific first days on the ultimate dirty jobs, and urban legends revealed to be all too real, herein lies a collection of modern ghost stories from some of the best proponents of the form.Featuring short stories by Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Simon Wood, Nate Kenyon, Scott Nicholson, Jeremy C. Shipp, Maria Alexander, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Joe Nassise

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 five novels, among them the popular southern gothic slasher Kin, and over two hundred short stories and novellas, including Sour Candyand The House on Abigail Lane, both of which have been optioned for film. A five-time Bram Stoker Award-nominee, Burke won the 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.Most recently, he adapted his work to comic book format for three volumes of John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night series of anthologies and contributed a short story to Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors. Kealan is represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House and Kassie Evashevski at Anonymous Content.He lives in an unhaunted house in Ohio with a Scooby Doo lookalike rescue named Red.

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