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Meet Johnny Divine in the Brimstone Turnpike Horror Anthology

by The Undead Rat on September 5, 2010

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

Brimstone Turnpike edited by Kealan Patrick Burke is a horror anthology of short stories loosely connected by the character of Johnny Divine and the theme of travel.

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Brimstone Turnpike is a highways and byways horror anthology edited by Ohio horror aurthor Kealan Patrick Burke

Brimstone Turnpike

Editor: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Cover Art: James Higgins Photography
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 448pp.
Pub. Date: August 2008
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications

Each of us chooses a path through life without knowing where it will lead. There may come good fortune, or misery, joy, or death. It is not for us to know.

But sometimes we are handed an opportunity to alter our destiny, though we may not recognize it when it’s there before us. It might be a lottery ticket, or an ad in the newspaper. It might also be an old man named Johnny Divine, and the treasures he keeps in a battered red leather suitcase at the Brimstone Turnpike.

On a lonesome stretch of deserted highway, amid the ruins of a gas station with a tragic past, Johnny waits in the searing sun for those who have found their way off the beaten path, off the map, and into a place where dreams can come true and nightmares become real, depending on the choices made.

Welcome to the Brimstone Turnpike, where the choice is yours.

Join wayward travelers Thomas F. Monteleone, Scott Nicholson, Tim Waggoner, Harry Shannon and Mike Oliveri, as we take a trip into the heart of darkness, where a gift from a silver-toothed old man can mean the difference between life and death.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction by Peter Crowther
  • The Prime Time of Spenser Golding by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • Behold the Child by Harry Shannon
  • Burial to Follow by Scott Nicholson
  • Warning Signs by Michael Oliveri
  • A Strange and Savage Garden by Tim Waggoner
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Kealan Patrick Burke's Brimstone Turnpike is an anthology of horror short stories by some of the genres leading authors

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