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 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), the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare (Spooky House Press), and his debut dark fiction collection 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.