- Hardcover: 207 pages
- Publisher: Subterranean Press; Signed edition (February 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596060697
- ISBN-13: 978-1596060692
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,997,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Burke expands on the bar-tale theme of his 2005 anthology, Taverns of the Dead, in a gripping horror novel whose motley cast of characters drink the evening away in a seedy bar, Eddie's Tavern, in a dying town called Milestone. Each is stained by—and may even have caused—an ugly death that still haunts him or her. Reverend Hill acts as judge and jury, ordering the barflies to go punish others in order to make restitution for their past sins. But then someone torches the bar, revealing the true evil crouched at the core of this beer-soaked corner of hell. Sheriff Tom Turner, who just wants "things to be the way they were before my wife died... before we all ended up here as slaves to our sins," bargains to save the town, but the cost may be too much to bear. At the haunting conclusion, escape proves only a brief respite from damnation. (Feb.)
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From Booklist
Burke's anthologyTaverns of the Dead (2004) featured stories of supernatural shenanigans in beleaguered barrooms. Now he takes the conceit a step further in his own gruesome dissection of the tormented patrons of Eddie's Tavern. In the deteriorating back-road town of Milestone, Eddie's is the lone watering hole for an assortment of angst-ridden locals, ranging from mute, giant Wintry McCabe to Milestone's sheriff, Tom Turner. Each carries the burden of having directly or indirectly killed someone, and each endures a ritual Saturday-night assignment from the diabolical Reverend Hill to rid the world of another evildoer and thereby cancel out his or her sins. But when the good reverend is dispatched by a bullet, and Eddie's burns to the ground, the stakes in the game of redemption become higher than anyone could have imagined, and Milestone's haunted citizens soon learn their purgatory may be everlasting. Burke's sharp-edged prose includes enough unforgettable characterizations and dollops of macabre wit to distinguish him as one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror.^B Carl Hays
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4.1 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Strange but good read, Sep 23 2011
By Kisala9906 - Published on Amazon.com
I enjoyed this book and it was well written it has a lot of different ways it pulls you but thankfully you don't get lost and the book was easy to follow. I think I would have given it more stars but there were places that I didn't really understand why they were added to the book and I didn't completely get the very very end of the book with the TIME FLIES I have an idea of what it means but I may be wrong or maybe it is one of those things that is left for you to guess at.
This is a book that will put your imagination to the test because there are a lot of unusual things in this book. I did love the premise of the book tho and love the whole ghost town idea.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best around, April 7 2007
By Reader/author - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Currency of Souls (Hardcover)
KP Burke is well on his way to being the new master of "quiet horror." However, CURRENCY is wild, over-the-top, violent, and about as far from "quiet horror" as it gets. Guess what? He still rocks. If you haven't read this guy, you don't know what you're missing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Currency of Souls, Mar 19 2007
By M. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Currency of Souls (Hardcover)
Currency of souls is a story about a town of people who are damned and the story of a man who is fighting to make things right. There is a mixture of genres within this story, you'll find a bit of mystery, horror, and SF. I can't just give it one label because there is so much happening. Some stories of the character I enjoyed more than others and wanted to know more about them and their backgrounds. If you've ever read any of Kealan's previous work, you'll find it a bit different. It was a very enjoyable read. I do recommend that you pick it and give it chance. You can't go wrong with Kealan Patrick Burke.
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