Barb, Patrick

NOMINATIONS:

“Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press), Short Non-Fiction, 2025

BIO: Patrick Barb is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He is the author of such works as the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted (Dark Matter Ink); novellas JK-LOL (Mad Axe Media), Night of the Witch-Hunter (Killer VHS, Shortwave Publishing), The Nut House (Undertaker Books) [also available in Spanish as La Casa de las Nueces from Dimensiones Ocultas], and The Big One (Anuci Press); and short-story collections Fairy Tales to Tell…in the Dark (self-published), The Children’s Horror (Northern Republic Press) and Pre-Approved for Haunting (Keylight/Turner Publishing). He is the editor and publisher of the anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel. In addition, he is the author of the monthly interview column “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author” in Shortwave Magazine.