Out Friday from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social! Thank you, @patrickbarb.bsky.social for the kind words! Preorder and add to the goodreads at the links below!

Probably “The Giallo Kid in the Cataclysm’s Campgrounds,” the closer for PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING. I feel like it’s the P.Barb Rosetta Stone: slashers, cosmic weirdness, family stuff, body horror, the first appearance of my sentient apocalypse “The Cataclysm,” and pop culture references.

Table for Day 2

Day 2: Rewind Book Fair. Let’s get it.

MN STATE FAIR GRANDSTAND

Now until 5 p.m. Central.

Pirate? Maybe.

But I know a Snake PlissKaren when I see one…

Day 1 at Rewind Book Fest

Day One at Rewind Book Fair in the can. It was a good one.

My table at Rewind Book Fair

The calm before the storm. All set up at Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairgrounds Grandstand. Come see me, @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social, @filthyloot.bsky.social, @holmbry.bsky.social, and many more.

We Have to Go Back... Or, Why You Should Come See Me at the Rewind Book Fest

Quick newsletter ahead of this weekend's Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairground Grandstand where I am tabling (#508) from 11 am to 5 pm Central Saturday and Sunday. Plus a little more on YFAFA with @johnlangan.bsky.social talking Salman Rushdie.

You know what’s cooler than 51%? 52%. And what’s cooler than that, 53%. And what’s cooler…<skip to the end>? 100%

We Have to Go Back... Or, Why You Should Come See Me at the Rewind Book Fest

Quick newsletter ahead of this weekend's Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairground Grandstand where I am tabling (#508) from 11 am to 5 pm Central Saturday and Sunday. Plus a little more on YFAFA with @johnlangan.bsky.social talking Salman Rushdie.

AI videos are really joy-killers. They are encroaching on America’s key online video exports: videos of precocious children, videos of adorable animals, and, finally, videos of wrestling botches. Shame!

Turn front cover

#buymybooks TURN. Wanna read a pro wrestling story that doesn't have dork-ass Pat McAfee shoehorned in?

How about one with vampires and death matches and battle royales with plunder and Elks Lodges and shady promoters and one chapter that's just a wrestler cutting a promo?

I got you, fam.

PATRICK BARB Appearing Saturday and Sunday! AUTHOR OF WEIRD, DARK, AND HORRIFYING STORIES PATRICK BARB ABDUCTED THE BIG ONE THE NUT HOUSE WITCH HUNTER BOOTH #508 FIND ME AT REWIND BOOK FAIR! REWIND BOOK FAIR APRIL 18–19, 2026 MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS GRANDSTAND REWINDBOOKFAIR.COM

THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, I’ll be tabling at Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairgrounds at the Grandstand. Come see me at Booth 508!

Night of the Witch-Hunter new front cover

Night of the Witch-Hunter new back cover

Announced earlier by @shortwavebooks.bsky.social, here's the new Killer VHS cover design for NIGHT OF THE WITCH-HUNTER. Ain't it great? Not sure when this new "S&S distribution" edition will launch, but the original edition will be available until it is! So, no matter what, you can still #buymybook

A Better Tomorrow 4K

#recentlywatched A Better Tomorrow. Y’all.

Is there anyone cooler than Chow Yun Fat?

I really don’t think there is.

Office Killer

#recentlywatched Office Killer. This horror-comedy where Carol Kane murders her bosses and fellow employees when budget cuts & new tech (emails!) lead to reduced hours could have been released today. With Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Imperioli, and Molly Ringwald.

The Cremator

#recentlywatched The Cremator. Incredibly dark Czech film about titular Cremator & his descent into madness/rise to power with the Nazis during the Holocaust. Lead Rudolf Hrušínský has strong Peter Lorre vibes & gives a mesmerizing performance. Pair w/ Zone of Interest for a feel-bad double feature

4Ks from Shout Factory: A Better Tomorrow Trilogy, Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Nightmare on Elm Street box set, Perfect Blue.

#moviemail. Super-duper hyped for these 4Ks from Shout Factory: A Better Tomorrow Trilogy, Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Nightmare on Elm Street box set, Perfect Blue.

Note: watched that last one, first thing, and I’m happy to report that Perfect Blue still completely and utterly slaps.

PATRICK BARB Appearing Saturday and Sunday! AUTHOR OF WEIRD, DARK, AND HORRIFYING STORIES PATRICK BARB ABDUCTED THE BIG ONE THE NUT HOUSE WITCH HUNTER BOOTH #508 FIND ME AT REWIND BOOK FAIR! REWIND BOOK FAIR APRIL 18–19, 2026 MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS GRANDSTAND REWINDBOOKFAIR.COM

THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, I’ll be tabling at Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairgrounds at the Grandstand. Come see me at Booth 508!

Oh nice! I hope you like it. I think RACE really gets its due as an American folk horror cornerstone throughout the issue actually.

Two copies of Crossroads with a postcard in between them that reads Patrick! We’re so glad you could be a part of this first issue. Thank you for your faith in this project ❤️ Candice

The opening spread of my article with an illustration by Marc Palm on the left side for a race with the devil essay and also there’s my sock clad foot in the corner for all you foot perverts out there

#ZineMail Psyched to get my contributor copies of issue 1 of @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Includes my essay about RACE WITH THE DEVIL: “Don’t (Satanic) Panic on the Highway to Hell”

This is a sharp-looking production and one that any folk horror fan worth their salt will wanna get.

Come Knocking Breathe In, Bleed Out Fantastic Land

#bookmail Here’s some new (to me) books:

2 by Mike Bockoven (Come Knocking & Fantastic Land). These get a lot of play w/ the Booktok/stagram folks so I’m intrigued. Mass death at Disney World & Sleep No More have my attention. PLUS…

Breathe In, Bleed Out from the homie @brianmcwriter.bsky.social

Florence on stage

Florence: boss shit

I mean cmon she’s awesome

Cool.

Holy fuck. Florence + The Machine at Target Center. What a show.

Transcendent, ethereal, joyful, mournful. Human.

And what a human!

ProPublica has marketed themselves as the good guys doing trustworthy news. I even gave them the money I used to give WaPo before they flipped the breakers on democracy.

Make their actions align with their words. don't cross the picket line and demand they deliver what their advertising promises.

I am at the Florence + The Machine show aka Folk Horror Prom.

Mantasy: Sounds like a shady dude at the aquarium trying to sell you a black market ray.

“Hey, hey buddy, psst, c’mere, listen pal, you in the market for a large, cartilaginous fish? Cuz I got this manta, see…”

i got a 911 text from an eviction-defense attorney today who had a client who needed nearly $5,000 to prevent her eviction

i was all ready to barn-raise for it. but then—what’s that? the community-run rent fund in her area had the resources to cover it! need met! done!

another world is possible.

#CriterionSale haul: The Red Shoes, Captain Blood, Lone Star, Network, Days of Heaven, Lost Highway, & Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling.

#CriterionSale haul: The Red Shoes, Captain Blood, Lone Star, Network, Days of Heaven, Lost Highway, & Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling.

How’d I do?

Lucio Fulci presents Massacre Intensive Care Cuddly Toys Office Killer Badge 373

Recent @vinsyn.bsky.social purchases:

Lucio Fulci presents Massacre
Intensive Care
Cuddly Toys
Office Killer
Badge 373

Butcher of Nazareth front cover

BON SPINE

BON back cover

Title page signed to me

#bookmail The Butcher of Nazareth by @davidscotthay.bsky.social. Love this cover. Also when you order direct from authors you can get signatures and swag (I got stickers AND magnets), folks.

It’s very cool and not at all scary that this guy could destroy the world, forget he’d even done it, and then want to talk about I dunno fucking window treatments or something.