Cautionary Tales and Strange Imaginings
The home page of KB Willson
A BIT ABOUT 'KB'
KB Willson is the pen name of Kevin Burke, an actor/entertainer who has worked for over 30 years in all aspects of performance and theatre arts. (If you want to know more about Kevin's 'other life', click here) Throughout that time he has always had an insatiable need to write, mostly for performance and the theatre, but latterly more in the form of speculative and genre fiction, specifically Fantasy, Science Fiction and the Supernatural.
He is a member of the Northampton Science Fiction Writers Group.
He writes an occasional blog which can be found at kbwillson.blogspot.com
Writing Credits
Theatre
(Writing as Kevin Burke)
Bear Faced Cheek (1997) "The Elements of Madness"
Asylum Theatre Co. (1999) "Asylum Years"
Bear Faced Cheek (2003/4) "Murder by Magic"
Bear Faced Productions (2009) "The True & Terrible History
of John 'Babbacombe' Lee"
Non-Fiction
(writing as Kevin Burke)
“Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares : a personal journey into grief” (2025)
ISBN 9798307556788
Fiction
(Writing as Kevin Burke)
NewCon Press (2013) "Wheat"
(Winner of NewCon/IAgrE short story competition. Subsequently published
in the 'Looking Landwards' anthology ISBN 978-1-907069-59-8)
Blandford Short Story Competition: "Outward Bound" (2017) ; "The Angel of Cold Harbour" (2018)
(Both winners of the Dorset Prize for fiction set within the county)
Fiction
(Writing as KB Willson)
Little Red Writers (2019) "Father's Day"
(Published in 'Dorset Shorts' anthology ISBN 978-1-9993557-0-8)
Timber Ghost Press (2021) "Oubliette"
Quill & Crow Publishing House (2022) "Relke of the Russet Hair"
(Published in 'Bleak Midwinter Vol 1: The Darkest Night' anthology ISBN 978-1-958228-14-2)
The Slab (2023) "Disconnected"
(Published in 'Dark Horses' anthology - ISBN 978-1-7384268-0-5)
Other Worlds Ink (2024) "Exo"
(Published in 'Earth 2100' anthology - ISBN 979-8876572509)
Gypsum Sound Tales (2024) "Wareham Bears"
(Published in 'Yabblins 2' anthology - ISBN 979-8340098740)
(Published in 'X' is for X-Rated' anthology - part of the A-Z of Horror series - ISBN 979 - 8308516293)
(Published in Black Cat Weekly - issue 185)
(Published in ParSec magazine - issue 13)
(Published in ‘Kozy Krampus' anthology - ISBN 978-1-63023-130-9)
(Published in ‘Hiding Under The Leaves' anthology – ISBN 978-1-7384268-6-7)
Other
Ironbridge Museum 'Enginuity' (2002) Responsible for writing all scripts for the interactive audio/visual presentations featured throughout the museum.
NT Kingston Lacy House Woodland Ball (Christmas 2025)
Responsible (along with Tony Horitz) for devising and writing the storyline and audio scripts for the above event.
CHANGELING
A little sample of my work, read by the author!
This is a piece of 'flash fiction', just 500 words to provide a flavour of my writing style. It was inspired by a local Dorset beauty spot and like so much of my writing takes a distinctly dark turn.