Kealan Patrick Burke wants to give you a gift this year. Actually three gifts.
In 2004, Kealan Patrick Burke published a novella title The Turtle Boy to great acclaim and won a Bram Stoker Award with it. However, the story of Timmy Quinn did not end there. Next came The Hides and Tim still sees the dead. The Hides was nominated for another Stoker Award. Finally Vessels was published and the mysteries surrounding the dead began to be revealed.
Kealan is not finished with the series. At least one story remains to be told. However, two out of three of these books are no longer in print or available for anything resembling a reasonable price on eBay. Vessels can be found at Horror Mall.
For a a limited time, Kealan is making copies of all three books available on his website for reading and even downloading. If you bought these books when they were available (as I did) you’d pay about $150.00 (each book averages $50.00 with postage and shipping). You’ll pay much more to get them on eBay.
Think about it: $150.00 of high quality, award winning horror by the only Irish born, Ohio resident horror writer in existence — FOR FREE! — No strings attached. I know, I already downloaded my copies. (Yes, I own the hardcover books but I couldn’t resist)
Download them today — and you’ll be all set for the next Timmy Quinn novel.
How do you get the books?
Take a look at the books you’ll be getting below. Then click on any of the bookcovers to reach Kealan’s free fiction page of his website. When you’re there, click again on the cover of the book you want to download and soon you’ll be seeing vengeful ghosts with Timmy.
The Timmy Quinn Series
 The Turtle Boy |
The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series #1)Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick |
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The 2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond — a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks — everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Pete’s summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder. |
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 The Hides |
The Hides (The Timmy Quinn Series #2)Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick |
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Nominated for the 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. It’s been almost seven years since the events of Myers Pond. Seven years since a dead child rose from the dead, seeking Timmy Quinn’s help in finding a murderer, a search that left more questions than answers in its terrifying wake. But for Timmy, the dead never leave. They’re everywhere, reaching out to him, and there is nowhere to hide from their quiet desperation. Following a nightmarish encounter at home, Timmy’s search for peace takes him to his grieving grandmother, and a small harbor town on the South coast of Ireland. But no peace can exist in a place whose past is colored by hate, betrayal and murder, and it is not long before Timmy realizes his haven has become a cage. And in the very foundations of an old crumbling factory, the dead are gathering. Uniting. To save his life and the lives of those he loves, Timmy Quinn must step behind the Curtain, into the realm of the dead and face something far more terrifying than he has ever encountered before — a monstrous entity known only as The Hides. . . |
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 Vessels |
Vessels (The Timmy Quinn Series #3)Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick |
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On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, an unpiloted boat drifts ashore, watched by a man to whom the dead are something to be feared. . . In a small stone chapel that stands hunkered against the vicious island winds, a woman whispers a frantic prayer to the gathering dark as something pale and dreadful scratches at the window. A young girl in love races to the shore to meet her lover and finds something monstrous instead. . . And in a confessional, a dead man waits to tell his sins. . . A gunshot in a church in Los Angeles leads Tim Quinn halfway around the world and into a nightmare, for on Blackrock Island, he will find love, murder and madness, and discover an earth-shattering truth about the Curtain, and those who hide behind it. |
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Kealan Patrick Burke was born in Ireland but has since moved to Ohio.
The protagonist, Timmy Quinn hails from Delaware Ohio where some of his story, including The Turtle Boy takes place.
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