Patrick Freivald

Patrick Freivald (born October 5, 1976 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American horror and thriller author who has published six novels and more than a dozen short stories. He lives in western New York with his wife.

In 2015, the Horror Writers Association awarded him the Richard Laymon President's Award. His novels Black Tide and Jade Sky were finalists for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (in 2015 and 2014, respectively). "Special Dead" was a finalist for the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and Snapshot, a short story published in the Blood and Roses anthology, published by Scarlett River Press was a finalist for the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction.

In the Garden of Rusting Gods: A Collection, published 2019, Barking Deer Press

Short Fiction

• Snapshot (in Blood and Roses, Scarlett River Press, 2013) and as an audiobook (in Tales to Terrify, No. 120, District of Wonders, 2014)
• The Red Man (in Deathlehem Revisited, Grinning Skull Press, 2013)
• A Taste for Life (in Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, Book 1, 2014)
• Outside (in Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, Book 2, 2013)
• Fall (in Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, Book 3, 2013)
• Trigger Warning (in Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, Book 4, 2014)
• Twelve Kilos (in Qualia Nous, Written Backwards, 2014)
• Forward Base Fourteen (in Never Fear, 13Thirty Books, 2015)
• Taps (in Never Fear, 13Thirty Books, 2015)
• Bonked (in SNAFU: Hunters, Cohesion Press, 2016)
• Splinter (in SQ Mag, Edition 27, IFWG Publishing, 2016)
• The Star (in The Tarot, 13Thirty Books, 2016)
• Control (in Uncharted Worlds: Xeno Encounters, 13Thirty Books, 2016)
• Shorted (in The Apocalypse, 13Thirty Books, 2017)
• Roadkill (in Double Barrel Horror Volume 2, Pint Bottle Press, 2017)
• The Gateway (in Double Barrel Horror Volume 2, Pint Bottle Press, 2017)
• Earl Pruitt's Smoker (in Behold! Oddities, Curiosities, and Undefinable Wonders, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017)
• The Chosen Place (in A New York State of Fright', Hippocampus Press, 2018)

• In 2016, he chaired the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement jury.
• He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers association.
• He was an instructor at the StokerCon Horror University, 2016-2019.
• He is President Emeritus of the Ontario Finger Lakes Beekeepers Association.
• He teaches high school classes in Physics, Robotics, and American Sign Language; and he taught Physics at Rochester Institute of Technology and ASL at Genesee Community College.
• He has served as a coach to the FIRST Robotics Team 1551, The Grapes of Wrath, since 2005.