Sour Candy, by Kealan Patrick Burke
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At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat together overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him to eat candy whenever he wants and set his own bedtimes. Some might say that such leniency is starting to take its toll on the father, given how his health has declined. What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life. A new novella from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY and KIN.
Sour Candy, by Kealan Patrick Burke- Amazon Sales Rank: #32947 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-13
- Released on: 2015-11-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "an excellent terror-filled novella....a stomach-twisting ride through the depths of horror, breathing new life into an often-stagnant part of the genre." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"Sour Candy is spectacularly good. A brilliant premise, marvelously executed, it's as close to a perfect story as I can remember reading. I only wish I'd written it myself." -- Bentley Little, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Resort, and The Store."On top, Sour Candy is a parental nightmare. But just under the lid is a mindscrew-story of a man's life exploding. Like The Twilight Zone and the great, shorter stuff by Beaumont and Matheson, Kealan Patrick Burke opens a door that we didn't even know was in the house."-- Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box"Sour Candy is Kealan Patrick Burke at his beautifully hideous best.Original, compelling, and unsettling as hell, it's must-read horror!"-- Christopher Golden, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Dead Ringers"An unexpected knife-turn in psychological suspense..." -- Christopher Fowler, author of Nyctophobia, The Sand Men, and the Bryant & May series."a twisted exercise in psychological suspense" -- Cemetery Dance"Taut, frightening, almost painful to read (but isn't that a good thing in a horror tale?) with great characters and an O. Henry-on-acid ending, Sour Candy is a must-read for horror fans" -- Dread Central"...a stellar addition to the underrepresented "Evil child" sub-genre, and Adam is one of the nastiest, most original Evil Children I've ever come across...This is beautifully-written,exquisitely creepy stuff.....Highly recommended." -- The Crabby Reviewer"...one of the best psychological horror novellas I've read this year." -- Scream Magazine
From the Author SOUR CANDY Q&A Q. Where did the idea for SOUR CANDY come from? A. I first had the idea for SOUR CANDY on a sweltering hot July day back in the summer of 2013. I was at Walmart to do some quick shopping (and with me, there's never any other kind), and when I was in the candy aisle, this little kid started screeching his lungs out. Startled, I looked at him; he glared back, and then I looked at his mother, who looked so beaten down and depressed I immediately felt guilty for gawping. On my way home, I wondered what would happen if I got home and found that child waiting for me there, maybe to make me pay for looking in the first place. That was as far as the idea went and I never wrote it. A few weeks back, the rest of it came to me and I wrote it more or less in one sitting. Q. There seems to be a hint of Lovecraftian horror in the book. Was this intentional? A. I didn't set out to have any kind of Lovecraftian elements in the story, but by the time I reached a certain point, I knew I was consciously and rather gleefully weaving them in there. So yes, it's absolutely intentional. Q. Right now, the book is a digital exclusive. Are there any plans for a print edition down the road? A. Absolutely. I'm currently in talks with a publisher about a signed limited edition of the book. We haven't hashed out all the details just yet, but it's more or less a done deal. Q. The cover, your own design, has gotten a lot of attention. It's also not very typical of your design work. Why the departure for SOUR CANDY and can you talk a bit about what inspired it? I came across a stock art photograph online of a robed man wearing what appeared to be a deer mask, complete with antlers, and knew I had to use it in some way. Not only did it inspire certain elements in the story, it also inspired the cover. And while I usually blend multiple art pieces to get the effect I want, this one didn't need them. I played around with some solid colors and settled on red and it just jumped out at me, so I went with it. It is very different, but then, I think the story is quite different too from anything I've done before.
About the Author Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland,Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-lovingmother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that hewould end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years,he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, sixcollections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he washonored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy.Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard,an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), abartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculumcontent editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, afraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Careful of that Boy in the Walmart Candy Aisle. He May Stick To You Like a Parasite By Mark Matthews If reading a story with enthusiasm, a smirk, and a curious mind about what happens next is the gauge of success, this book nails it.Sour Candy doesn't worry so much if you believe the premise. But it does make it believable by putting you in place where you have already been; A Walmart on the candy aisle, feeling a bit out of place but needing to grab a few things to get back to your real life with bigger dreams. Not Walmart dreams, that's for sure. Well, you know that screaming kid in the aisle? not just screaming, but shrieking until your contact lenses shatter? Well, be careful for he may stick to you like a parasite.In Sour Candy, the main character's worst fears come true when he is saddled with a child at his side, and his current partner has run off. See, he'd already broken up with a woman due to not wanting children, and now this strange boy is calling him Daddy. He's loosing his health (too much Candy), loosing his sanity, feeling trapped, and you feel his desperate measures and start to root for him to get out of his mess. You feel his relief at a false summit of sanity, but the book ends in a lovely way that is simply another beginning. Have I spoiled something? I hope not.I never read Kealan's books without learning something about writing horror (I have this dream to write a book called "101 things To Learn About writing Horror from reading KIN") (I'm joking less than you think.) Sour Candy is no exception. I read it in three sittings, and enjoyed the time spent.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. FANTASTIC psychological horror novella!!! By Kimberly Y. The story SOUR CANDY, by Kealan Patrick Burke, is perhaps the best psychological horror novella that I have read, to date, in 2015!Phil Pendleton is a man living a happy life with his girlfriend, Lori, when an innocent encounter with a woman and boy at Walmart send him spiraling into near mental insanity. On the way home, a fender-bender begins to show Phil just how MUCH has changed. . . Suddenly, Phil finds the boy from the store at his home,and everyone around informing him that this is his son, Adam.“In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you’re the one who denies it, doesn’t that make you the one most likely wrong?”From that moment on, Phil finds himself in the midst of a Twilight Zone nightmare, where escape is not an option. “He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became.”Burke effortlessly controls the circumstances of Pendleton’s new “life”, even bringing in some Lovecraftian themes. The emotional and mental torment Phil goes through, I found more chilling in nature than any sort of “physical” torture. We see first hand the slowly diminishing control that he retains on his sanity, and begin to wonder that if he were able to extract himself from this sham of an existence, would he ever be able to truly “live” again.Even with the way Phil’s resolve slowly weakens into an almost acceptance of his situation, I was shocked at the casual tone in which Burke presents the following statement: “Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton’s teeth fell out.”Rather than minimize the horror, the blandly stated fact really intensified the fear, anguish and horror that I felt. Kealan Patrick Burke is able to masterfully manipulate the reader’s emotions with such apparent ease. This is a quality I feel that make his books so effective, and so memorable.There is no question that I will be eagerly reading everything that Burke puts into print!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Kealan Patrick Burke Always Delivers! By Daniel V. Reilly I've been beating the drum for Kealan Patrick Burke ever since Necessary Evil Press published his novella, THE TURTLE BOY over a decade ago. The man has style and talent out the wazoo, and his prose can cut you right down to your soul. He's tagged as a Horror author, but he's one of those rare talents that you just hate to see pigeonholed, since he's so damned good at anything he puts to paper. There are a lot of authors that I enjoy, but few that can actually affect me emotionally on a consistent basis...Kealan has written stuff that has creeped me out, stuff that has mad me think, and stuff that has devastated me. When people ask me "Who's your favorite author?", they usually get a list, but Kealan's name is, invariably, close to the top of that list. He's someone that you need to discover, if you haven't already. A new Kealan Patrick Burke story is always cause to celebrate, and his latest, SOUR CANDY, is especially impressive. It landed in my inbox a few days ago, an I devoured it like a nasty ol' bag of Sour Patch Kids. Phil Pendleton, while making a chocolate run for his girlfriend, comes across a screaming child and his haggard mother in the candy aisle. The pair attract the attention of Phil and his fellow shoppers with their bizarre behavior, and while the mother is being asked to leave the store by the manager, the child offers Phil one of the sour candies that started his screaming fit in the first place. Phil accepts it, hoping to avoid a scene, and goes on his way. While driving home, Phil is rear-ended by the woman from the store, wrecking both of their cars. She emerges from her car, mutters to Phil "Yours now.", and promptly walks into traffic to commits suicide by taxi. Phil informs the bystanders that she had a child with her in the store, and they check the car...but find nothing. Won't Phil be surprised when he finds that screaming child from the store, Adam, waiting for him when he gets home....? SOUR CANDY is a stellar addition to the underrepresented "Evil child" sub-genre, and Adam is one of the nastiest, most original Evil Children I've ever come across. Burke packs a lot into this novella, and, while I enjoy a vague threat as much as the next guy, we actually get to find out just who Adam is, and what he wants with Phil. Chilling stuff, made even more effective by how finely-drawn a character Phil is. Burke puts us in Phil's head as he goes through the same questions and doubts that any of us would have in a situation like this, and he smartly shoots down any of the Horror-movie-logic loopholes that a jaded fan like me could think of. This is beautifully-written, exquisitely creepy stuff.....Highly recommended.
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