Others believe it is nothing but an end to everything, an extinguishing of the light that burns inside us all.

And there are those who believe death is a transformation that allows us to cast off the flesh binding us to ourselves, letting us roam unhindered, unbound by the laws of man . . . and free to feed.

With this collection of sixteen spine-chilling stories, Kealan-Patrick Burke takes you over the treshold into a country seldom seen by the living, where reality is a fragile thing; darkness is sentient . . .

And the ghosts are hungry.

Ravenous Ghosts by Kealan-Patrick Burke, with an introduction by Jack Cady.

"Kealan-Patrick Burke's writing is remarkable for its maturity and control, but also for its fresh imagery, its clever wit. Burke's talent breaks out in every paragraph, revealing an eye for the unseen textures of life and death."
--Thomas F. Monteleone, author of Blood of the Lamb, The Resurrectionist, and The Reckoning

"Superbly well-crafted, literate, with a slowly rising sense of tension and dread, ending with non-predictable startling conclusions. A score or so excellent young writers are currently emerging in dark fiction; Kealan-Patrick Burke is in the top echelon of this group. I highly recommend his first collection."
--Gene O'Neill, author of The Burden of Indigo

"Ravenous Ghosts takes the reader into a grim yet elegant world of living nightmares, where no one is safe from the icy, relentless grip of the supernatural. The folks in the stories may wear denim or polyester, but the macabre thrills are cut from timeless black velvet."
--Mark McLaughlin, author of Shoggoth Cacciatore and Once Upon a Slim; editor of The Urbanite