The Funko Pop! Toy Company's "Pop Yourself" has options for certain holidays and occasions, and as you can see, I have an affinity for both the vampire and the skeletal costumes.

From the Vampa Museum, a portrait of a young woman, Alice Parker, a victim of the Salem Witch Trials executions in 1692, one of the most shameful and tragic periods of early America. Twenty-five people died: twenty were executed, and five perished in prison; over 200 were accused of being witches, losing their property, civil rights, and livelihoods. This tragedy inspired me to write my novel "The Bedfordshire Warlock," a horror story about a real warlock executed in the fict

Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 9, 1993, the stop-motion animated musical fantasy that changed Halloween forever. In my opinion, this crossover masterpiece of puppetry between Halloween and Christmas is the reason why Halloween animatronics and decor appear in box stores in August, the most commercial holiday after Christmas. Personally, I'm obsessed with the goblins Lock, Shock, and Barrel and the Danny Elfman-

An excerpt from my novel Servant for the Horror Writers Association’s Halloween Haunts website. For those who have not read any of my novels (audible gasp!), here is your chance to read a 2000 word Halloween-themed excerpt from my best-selling novel Servant that is not available on any other website! Enjoy! https://horror.org/halloween-haunts-an-excerpt-from-the-novel-servant-by-patrick-r-field/?

Another relic from the Vampa Museum of Paranormal Antiquities, this display included the name of Marie Leveau, the most famous Voodoo Priestess of New Orleans (immortalized by Angela Bassett in American Horror Story: Coven and the new season AHS: 13). As it is explained, Voodoo is the practice of combining the power of the Roman Catholic saints and the ancient West African deities/spiritual traditions. The kit contains Christian symbols, West African totems, root and herb pot

I mean, an author spotlight on me, a horror author, from J Scott Coatsworth, the editor of queeromanceink.com and queerscifi.com, two websites that specialize in the LGBTQ+ perspective for speculative fiction (paranormal, fantasy, horror, science fiction...). Check it out, as some of the questions are ones that I've never been asked before during an interview! https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-patrick-r-field/?

I have been fascinated by Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" since seeing Disney's animated version as a child (the standalone theatrical release was in September 1963, a year before I was born). The suspenseful and thrilling cartoon of Ichabod Crane being chased on horseback by the beheaded Hessian soldier through the forest of the Hudson Valley was, along with Dark Shadows, my introduction to the world of horror. The Tim Burton version with Johnny Depp as Ich

As an author and fan of horror literature, I'm doing something different for spooky season this year: I'll be presenting Halloween- and/or horror-related posts that have touched my life in some way every day for the 31 days of October. To start off, here's a doozy: photos of an exorcism chair and the original Bibles from Germany I recently visited at Vampa: The Visual Arts Museum of Paranormal Antiquities in Doylestown, PA, while attending a book event for my author friends a

Thanks to all who made the Romantasy Panel a success today- J.C. Plaza, Mickey Flagg, and, of course, the attentive and generous audience! Great questions! 😈

"Romantasy" aficionados or "Romantasy" curious? Join us today at 12:30 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Milford, PA, for a panel of local Romantasy authors discussing this emerging genre that promises to be both lively and informative! Btw, the pic is from a screen presentation by The Milford Readers and Writers Festival at the Milford Theater. 😈

Inventive interview questions that center on the romantic aspect of my writing. https://www.zarawestsuspense.com/patrick-field-writes-paranormal-romantasy/

The Baltimore gang came out to support me and I had my best day ever selling books: 12 total! It was a great event and I hope to be invited back next year!

Promo graphic for Author Spotlight appearing August 6, 2026. Surprised that they used my tagline.

An honor to be in the company of such prolific writers and friends like John DiLeo, Amy Ferris, and Heather Housekeeper. Thanks to Marie Liu for a great event celebrating Milford area authors!

Readers were looking for dark fantasy/romance, not necessarily my genre, so a disappointing day of sales but met some nice authors and shared experiences.

Excited to announce that The Bedfordshire Warlock won 3rd place/Finalist in Horror for The NEST Award! The NEST Awards are a highly competitive contest widely respected within indie, romance, and genre fiction communities!

"I found Dorian to be rather full of himself but maybe that's just the way we were as young gay men in the 1990s...the slight arraogance we see in Dorian is meant to create an instant contrast with the humility of Tobias Blessing the boy on whom Dorian develops an instant crush...Toby Blessing is a rugby star at Bedfordshire College and a classic muscular blond jock. For all that, he's gentle and surprisingly humble with none of the toxic masculinity one might expect. Toby is

"What’s most fun about Patrick R Field’s ghost stories is the way he draws on traditional tropes while adding twists that set them apart from others in their genre... Even though the reader knows from the start a major part of the background that drives the plot, the author adds a surprise that amplifies the emotional trauma of the events at Blackstone. Ultimately, both the main characters and the reader are drawn into the story, as a supernatural tale of murder becomes a les

Pic of me at the book fair. First time using the standing screen of The Bedfordshire Warlock. Looks good right?

Hey y'all! First book fair of the summer and this one is during Pride Month at Strange Birds Gallery, "a queer place for queer artisits," located at 1141 Capouse Avenue. Scranton, PA. I'll be signing all three novels! See you there!