Professional Biography

Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and spooky stories, hailing from the southern United States and currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) with his wife two kids, and a naughty (but lovable) puppy in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a writer, his short fiction appears in Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16, Nightscript, Diabolical Plots, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other publications. His longer works include the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost (Grey Matter Press), Turn (Alien Buddha Press), and The Nut House (serialized in Cosmic Horror Monthly, coming soon in a collected edition from Undertaker Books and in Spanish from Dimensiones Ocultas), the novelettes Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare (Spooky House Press) and “So Quiet, So White” in Split Scream Vol. 3 (Tenebrous Press), and his dark fiction collections The Children’s Horror (Northern Republic Press) and Pre-Approved for Haunting (Keylight Books/Turner Publishing). Barb is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association and a Full Member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

Education

Columbia University Publishing Course, 2006

Millsaps College, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, 2001-2005

Credits

For a complete list of publications, visit patrickbarb.com/writer

Awards

2nd Place, Horror in Hollywood Contest, Divination Hollow Reviews, January 15, 2021

2nd Place, Flash Challenge: Travel Horror, Crystal Lake Publishing, “Hook-Hand Man’s Last Night on Lovers’ Lane,” October 13, 2019

Professional Affiliations

Horror Writers Association, Active Member and Trustee

Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Full Member