Patrick Barb

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PLEASE JOIN US FOR: AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY FEBRUARY 28, 2026 | 12–4 A Day Of Books, Community, And Support For Immigrant Rights. Stop by a local bookstore, meet your favorite author, and make a donation. All on-site donations to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota will receive a free signed book (while supplies last). Visit several stores and make a day of it!

AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY February 28, 2026, 12–4 Please join us in supporting Minnesota bookstores and raising money for immigrant rights. Authors will sign copies of their latest books plus offer giveaways (while supplies last) for donations made on site to either the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Support your community and make a day of it! Bookstores & Assigned Authors Avant Garden • JE Joyce • Kristin Nilsen Big Hill Books • Dylann Crush • Mindy Mejia Birchbark Books • Heid Erdrich Black Garnet Books • Bao Phi • Shannon Gibney • Roxane Battle • Aamina Ahmad Comma • Matt Goldman • Tasha Coryell Content • Allen Eskens Cream & Amber • Curtis Sittenfeld • Erin White Drury Lane Books • Sam Tschida Enchanted Quill • Andrew DeYoung • Kathleen West ⸻ Excelsior Bay Books • John Rosengren • James Dawes Hey Darling • Anna Worth • Ruan Willow Inkwell • Jess Lourey • Kristi Belcamino Irreverent Bookworm • Rebecca Kanner • Andie J. Christopher Lake Country Booksellers • Bill Souder • Lorna Landvik Moon Palace • Josh Moehling • Toni Halleen Next Chapter Booksellers • Sarah Stonich • Laurie Hertzel • Neal Karlen Niche • Laurel Osterkamp • Jenney Egertson • Bill Anderson ⸻ Once Upon a Crime • William Kent Krueger • Allan Evans • Patrick Barb Red Balloon • Margi Preus • Stephen Shaskan • Trisha Shaskan • Payal Doshi Scout and Morgan • Judy Kerr • Jessie Chandler • Nickolas Butler Subtext • Wendy Webb • Kate Allen Tropes and Trifles • Annika Martin • Dean Holmes • Jane Hadley Valley Bookseller • Katrina Monroe • Kim Todd Well Read Books • Jeff Shelby • Beth Balmanno

Feel free to share! More on the #authorsforminnesota event on February 28. Including participating bookstores & authors.

Minnesota Authors Team with Bookstores to Support Immigrants More than 50 authors are fanning out to indie bookstores around the state on February 28 as part of Authors for Minnesota Day, giving signed copies of their latest releases to anyone who makes a donat...

On February 28th, I'll be at Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis for this #authorsforminnesota event to help raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of MN & the Women's Foundation of MN. They'll be selling some of my books w/ others available as gifts w/ proof of donation. Please come join us!

The Big One | Anuci Press "A propulsive, claustrophobic, full-throttle tear through the wreckage of a near-future San Francisco. Patrick Barb has a gift for visceral horror, relentless pacing, and the kind of whip-fast twists ...

#BuyMyBooks THE BIG ONE. Lovecraftian horror meets Michael Bay machismo. From @tonyanuci.bsky.social Now nominated for a @specawards.bsky.social in horror.

Oh that title, too! I mean I was in already, but now I’m all the way in.

Gargantuana's Ghost Check out Gargantuana's Ghost on Bookshop.org US!

#BuyMyBooks GARGANTUANA’S GHOST. My first novella. The first book with my name on the cover. A weird tale that’s like King Kong meets The Sixth Sense with found family in New York City.

One Question: The W-H Questions and Short-Story Writing A short fiction magazine and contest exclusive to new writers. We pay professional rates and help unpublished writers get published.

Tomorrow (Saturday) at 1pm Eastern on Elegant Literature’s AuthorHQ, I am teaching a class/workshop about structuring short stories around one of the W-H questions.

Come join me!

All day every day

Deathwish Wolf Man The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monsters

Prelim ballot for Stoker Awards is out to Active & Lifetime members. You can vote for up to 5 items per category. One category? Short Non-Fiction. One potential selection? My essay/grand theory of everything Wolf Man, “Deathwish Wolf Man” from @interstellarflight.bsky.social Votes due by Feb 15!

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Image shows these books: DARK CLOUD ON NAKED CREEK HOUSE OF GOD JK-LOL LUX IN TENEBRIS: POENA ET SALUS MY LIPS, HER VOICE NEVER, NEVER PREY UPON THE LAMBS

Image shows these books: PUPPET'S BANQUET REEF MIND RUNNING DRY SATANIC STATIC SONG DOGS THE BIG ONE THE BREATHING HOUSE

Speaking of awards, I have not one but TWO books nominated in the Horror Category for @specawards.bsky.social 2026.

JK-LOL (Mad Axe Media)

THE BIG ONE (Anuci Press)

And a lot of other cool books/authors.

Deathwish Wolf Man The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monsters

Prelim ballot for Stoker Awards is out to Active & Lifetime members. You can vote for up to 5 items per category. One category? Short Non-Fiction. One potential selection? My essay/grand theory of everything Wolf Man, “Deathwish Wolf Man” from @interstellarflight.bsky.social Votes due by Feb 15!

This’ll Make Things A Little Easier

#bookmail HYPED for This’ll Make Things A Little Easier by @attilaveres.bsky.social from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social. His first English-language collection was hands down one of my favorite collections period. Excited to dig into this follow-up.

A lot of these famous folks would have been better off consulting a Magic 8-Ball instead of the infamous convicted p3do….

Cat People poster

Watched CAT PEOPLE (1982) last night at the @trylon.org as part of their series honoring composer Giorgio Moroder & his synth-tastic scores. I’d never seen this before.

It is at once the horniest movie ever but also somehow not at the same time. Directed by Paul Schrader.

Never! 😂😂😂

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#BuyMyBooks TURN. Royal Rumble in (blech) Saudi Arabia got you down? Why not read my vampire pro wrestling novella in which a vampire wrestler is goaded into a battle royale outside in the daylight?

How does he survive? DOES he survive? Read it and find out!

The Final Programme box front

The Final Programme box back

The Final Programme 4K case

#recentlywatched The Final Programme. Loved this 4K from Severin with the director of Vincent Price’s Phibes films adapting this Jerry Cornelius novel by Michael Moorcock. Trippy, irreverent, mod, silly, & sexy. 100% my jam.

Ghostkeeper blu ray

#recentlywatched Ghostkeeper. Canadian horror film that’s like what if The Shining was lo-fi & ambient. Genuinely weird & somewhat unsettling. Makes some interesting choices.

Baby Blood Blu-ray case

#recentlywatched Baby Blood. French horror (with strong black comedy aspects) about young woman “impregnated” by a worm-like ancient creature who speaks to her and compels her to kill/drink blood so it can finally be “born.” A fucking wild ride of a movie. Fucked up, funny, disturbing.

Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare - Patrick Barb's Ko-fi Shop When you see everything your children do, what are you still missing? And what will it cost you? In a near-future United States, surveillance technol...

#BuyMyBooks: HELICOPTER PARENTING IN THE AGE OF DRONE WARFARE. This sci-fi/horror bad boy is out of print. But you can get signed copies from yours truly. US readers use the link here, everyone else DM for shipping info. 29 copies left. Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

The Snow Creature Ghost Keeper The Veil Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Dario Argento’s Phantom of the Opera Birthrite The Gambler

And the other @vinsyn.bsky.social order (a big ‘un):

The Snow Creature
Ghost Keeper
The Veil (Boris Karloff hosted antho series)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (the original in 4K)
Dario Argento’s Phantom of the Opera (w/Julian Sands as the Phantom!)
Birthrite
The Gambler

Krazee Kidz Video Party Only the River Flows Asylum of Darkness

#recentarrivals got 2 more orders in from @vinsyn.bsky.social. Here’s the 1st:

* Krazee Kidz Video Party
* Only the River Flows
* Asylum of Darkness

Wow. Bizarre. It really feels like they fed the character names and a summary of the trailer (maybe) in ChatGPT and posted whatever got spit back out.

...we also congratulate Story Hour guests @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social and @patrickbarb.bsky.social for having work on the Bram Stoker Awards®️ Preliminary Ballot! HWA Active and Lifetime Members, watch your inboxes for evaluation links for works—and your ballots! (3/3)

Mother of Flies poster

#ShudderFridayNightMovie was Mother of Flies. If you like what the Adams Family does movie-wise, you’ll enjoy this. If not, you won’t. It’s a folk horror tone poem with some real weirdness to it.

Oh and the Wikipedia summary currently is AI-generated slop that has almost 0 to do w/ actual plot. Ugh

Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty after US judge dismisses murder charge Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty after a U.S. judge on Friday dismissed murder and weapons charges against the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in a major blow to f...

Okay so it’s not ALL bad news.

Catherine O’Hara! Oh 2026, you cruel bitch. RIP.

The Final Programme Idiot Box Student Confidential The Ghost The Crippled Masters A Bay of Blood The Bronson Lee Za Karate Collection

#recentarrivals From the recent @severinfilms.bsky.social sale:

The Final Programme (Jerry Cornelius movie!)
Idiot Box (Alex Winter sketch show)
Student Confidential
The Ghost (Barbara Steele!)
The Crippled Masters
A Bay of Blood (The Bava Classic in 4K)
The Bronson Lee Za Karate Collection

The Final Programme Idiot Box Student Confidential The Ghost The Crippled Masters A Bay of Blood The Bronson Lee Za Karate Collection

#recentarrivals From the recent @severinfilms.bsky.social sale:

The Final Programme (Jerry Cornelius movie!)
Idiot Box (Alex Winter sketch show)
Student Confidential
The Ghost (Barbara Steele!)
The Crippled Masters
A Bay of Blood (The Bava Classic in 4K)
The Bronson Lee Za Karate Collection