Kevin P. Keating: Fiction, Essays & Commentary

From Cleveland Scene by James Renner: "Let’s get this part out of the way: this is a breakthrough novel, one that makes a career... The plot is juicy but it’s Keating’s wordplay that draws a reader in. Early reviewers have already compared his command of prose to Franzen or David Foster Wallace... But anyone who’s read classic horror can quickly see he’s more influenced by the words of Poe and Lovecraft than those pretentious Writer’s Lab types... This new novel is a hallucination and certainly reads like a terrible trip, like some early Cormac McCarthy. And it was a hallucination I was delighted to be captivated by for a while." READ THE REVIEW HERE

THE CAPTIVE CONDITION launches at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 9! Kevin P. Keating  has received starred reviews for  THE CAPTIVE CONDITION   (Pantheon Books,  7/7/2015 ) , including this from  Library Journal:   “A weird and wonderfully rendered universe . . . . A highly literary look at the faces of evil in almost all of its guises . . . . Oh, and many characters here are constantly high on psychedelic carrot juice.”  Emulating a modern day Edgar Allan Poe, coupled with the creepy brilliance of HBO’s True Detective, THE CAPTIVE CONDITION is at once chilling, deliciously dark, and quirkily hilarious. As a boilermaker turned author, Kevin has a fascinating and unique take on thriller writing. Kevin appears on the  Horror/Thriller panel  on  Thursday, July 9 at 4 pm  ( Room 25ABC ). READ MORE HERE