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A Horror Anthology to Drink in: Taverns of the Dead

by The Undead Rat on September 4, 2010

This weekend we look at a pair of horror anthologies — both edited by Ohio author Kealan Patrick Burke.

Taverns of the Dead edited by Kealan Patrick Burke is a horror anthology of the one place where every monster knows your name.

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Taverns of the Dead is a horror anthology about bars, taverns and inns edited by Ohio horror author Kealan Patrick Burke

Taverns of the Dead

Editor: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Cover Art: Alan M. Clark
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 430pp.
Pub. Date: October 30, 2005
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications

Taverns are timeless places, as familiar and welcome as the spirits that rest themselves atop the bar.

Through the ages, in times of war, of famine, of love and death, they have stood in silence, radiating the promise of a soporific sojourn from the horrors and the worries of the outside world. We are drawn to them by this promise, by the notion that we may be protected and comforted by the light, the animated chatter and the warmth inside those smeared glasses.

When we go there, it is with no fear at all.

But taverns can be deadly places, where ghosts walk, the shadows talk and not everyone is your friend.

With Taverns of the Dead, editor Kealan Patrick Burke has reserved a table and gathered together some of the finest writers in modern horror and dark fantasy to share their most terrifying bar stories with you, the unsuspecting patron.

Pull up a chair and prepare to be regaled by tales of monsters, madness, ghosts and gore, in a place we know all too well. . .

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction by F. Paul Wilson
  • The Lingering Scent of Apples by P. D. Cacek
  • The Winner by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Souls of Drowning Mountain by Jack Cade
  • Kristine’s Kwiet Korner by Melanie Tem
  • Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman
  • Gas Station Carnivals by Thomas Ligotti
  • Bucket of Blood by Norman Partridge
  • The King of Rotted Wood by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Front-Page McGuffin and The Greatest Story Never Told by Peter Crowther
  • Des Lors by Roberta Lannes
  • At Home in the Pubs of Old London by Christopher Fowler
  • Spirited by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Times of Atonement by Yvonne Navarro
  • That Was Radio Clash by Charles de Lint
  • Friday Night at the Wicked Swan by Charles L. Grant
  • Bar Talk by Peter Straub
  • Time Was by David Morrell
  • Shades of the Past (The Traveling Salesman Goes Home) by C. Bruce Hunter
  • Luke: Homeward Angel by Chaz Brenchley
  • The Last Good Times by Tim Lebbon
  • Two in the Eyes by Tom Piccirilli
  • Welcome to the Masque by Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Order of Nature by Edward Lee
  • A Fine and Private Place by Thomas F. Montelone
  • The Family Room by Nicholas Royle
  • The Smoke From Mooney’s Pub by Chet Williamson
  • The Snug by Terry Lamsley
Amazon.com October 2005 (Hardcover — Cemetery Dance)
Barnes and Noble October 2005 (Hardcover — Cemetery Dance)

Kealan Patrick Burke's Taverns of the Dead is an anthology of horror short stories about the one place where every monster knows your name

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