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Writer/Editor/Awesome (he/him); patrickbarb.com
Rep: Pam Gruber at High Line Literary Collective
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialCatching up on #RecentlyPublished (though I don’t even know if this one is technically out in the States yet…): My “Best Horror of the Year”-featured folk horror/fucked-up love & revenge tale “The Scare Groom” appears in FOLKLORE HORROR SHORT STORIES from Flame Tree Press.
@penumbricmag.bsky.socialReposted by @patrickbarb.bsky.socialThank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric: Amy Zhang, @dpbrownwrites.bsky.social, Amy Power Jansen, Denny Marshall, John Leahy, @marysoonlee.bsky.social, @christinasng.bsky.socialg.bsky.social ...
@penumbricmag.bsky.socialReposted by @patrickbarb.bsky.socialAnd more thank yous! Nick Porisch, Michelle Koubek, Nicholas De Marino, Ron Sanders, J.F. Sebastian, R. Mac Jones, @patrickbarb.bsky.social, Lora Gray, Carl Scharwath, Veronica Reinhart, @l-foxauthor.bsky.social ...
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialFreddy Got Goldfingered North by Northwestworld The People Under the Stairs vs. Larry Flynt Something John Wicked This Way Comes
@patrickbarb.bsky.social#BuyMyBooks TURN. My vampire pro wrestling novella from @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social. Dracula & Renfield in the world of death-match wrestling.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialOh, wow, what a coincidence. I happen to have a Nobel Prize that I keep with—check it—a whole-ass cask of Amontillado right down in my vault here
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialReposted by @patrickbarb.bsky.social#BuyMyBooks PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING. My debut short-story collection still available from Turner Publishing (got a spotlight in their newsletter today). W/ a foreword by @richardthomas.bsky.social & some of the very best of my early stories. Some of your favorite authors liked it, too. Probably.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialWhat is the film that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialHello. I am almost 44 years old. I am both a writer AND an editor. Yet somehow, I am just learning the phrase is “just deserts” instead of “just desserts.” So there’s that.
@patrickbarb.bsky.social#BuyMyBooks PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING. My debut short-story collection still available from Turner Publishing (got a spotlight in their newsletter today). W/ a foreword by @richardthomas.bsky.social & some of the very best of my early stories. Some of your favorite authors liked it, too. Probably.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialAnother round of revisions on PAST THE PLAYGROUND done and dusted; and now it's back to my agent. All that's left to do (for now) is to start the next thing...
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialMostly a joke. Except for a few people. Like the person who said some “vile,” out of pocket things about me. I wish them nothing but unwell.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialProposal: ways to show your LACK of support for people you hate GoDefundMe KickHARDER IndieNOGo and, of course… HATE-treon
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialStarting* to think this Gavin Newsom guy sucks. *Have thought so for a while now
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialYou don't like me? You hate me? You have a more nuanced but still ultimately negative view of me? That's OK. Nothing you can do will ever cut as deep as a classroom of 1st graders telling me: "You mean like PATRICK from SPONGE BOB???" And then laughing uproariously. So, up your game, haters.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialFriends don’t let friends start podcasts.
@patrickbarb.bsky.social#RecentlyWatched BUDDY. Yes please. Still remember watching Too Many Cooks for the first time and becoming a fan for life of Casper Kelly. I think Kelly is probably the filmmaker most in touch with where horror media tastes are going for the next generations.
@patrickbarb.bsky.socialIt also ties the victims together while it “dies” them separately
@patrickbarb.bsky.social#RecentlyWatched Without Apparent Motive. This was great. French crime film based on an Ed McBain story. An unseen sniper is killing people and the search is on for the secret that dies the victims together. Loved it.
@patrickbarb.bsky.social#RecentlyWatched The Mangler. Based on what I remember being a pretty fun Stephen King story. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Robert Englund as the lead human villain. And yet…oof.
