“Purveyor of dread, bon vivant, and scribe of middling import, Patrick Kitson has been a lifelong student of the macabre, the satirical, and the intellectually dubious. Born and raised in The Roaring Fork Valley, he’s coined the term, “Valley Horror” in reference to his particular brand of homebrewed speculative fiction which largely takes place in and around the snowy climes of Colorado.”
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I am a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, three of my books were top picks for the Claymore last year, and I have a supernatural thriller coming out this fall which is set at Killer Nashville. My prose is primarily composed of humorous sci-fi/eco-horror/supernatural/thriller/mystery.
“With a Stephen King feel and a knack for quickly hooking you into a story, Patrick Kitson is a compelling storyteller with a very bright future.”
–Tom Barber, author of the Sam Archer thriller series
INFLUENCES:
John Milius
Stephen King
John Carpenter
Dean Koontz
Chuck Palahniuk
Aaron Sorkin
Clive Cussler
Gregg Araki
R.L. Stein
Johnathan Swift
BONEDALE (2025)
“Nestled amongst the snow-capped peaks of Colorado’s western slope lies a town with a rich history and spectacular scenery—as well as a dark undercurrent of the miraculous and the macabre. What first appears as a sun-dappled mountainous hideaway from the techno-modernity of our chaotic world is, in reality, a waypoint between the strange and the surreal, the spooky and the scintillating. For this community harbors a mind-dazzling, spine-tingling menagerie of historical spectres and future dangers. It is a place where the line between the real and unreal remains eternally blurred.
Welcome to the town of Carbondale, or as its denizens affectionately refer to it, BONEDALE.”
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NIGHT (2024)
“Breakout author Patrick Kitson brings you thirteen tales of the macabre, the oft-satirical, the sublimely foreboding and the frequently inappropriate.
Six air traffic control tower jockeys working at Denver International during a blizzard scramble to ascertain why planes keep disappearing from their radars. A young woman working a guard gate at Starwood Estates outside of Aspen gets a visit from a veritable parade of undead guests. Inside of a fire watchtower in the Colorado wilderness, a young man must do battle with a creature made up almost entirely of eyes.
These stories and more are contained within the accursed pages of this doomed tome. Dare you allow them unfettered entry into your waking subconscious?
Well, DARE YOU?”
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DAY (2024)
“Breakout author Patrick Kitson brings you thirteen tales of the terrifying, the darkly humorous, and the often questionably conceived.
For the last 100 years, at the historic Hot Springs Pool and Resort in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, an entity made up of something no one can see or hear has been feeding upon unsuspecting tourists. At an educational dig site for dinosaur study in Fruita, Colorado, kids on a school trip unwittingly unearth a black set of bones that someone or something has gone to great lengths to keep buried. And a weary festival wanderer keeps the party rollin’ by making sure ne-er-do-wells feel the wrath of a swift, albeit melodic comeuppance.
These tales and more lie in wait within these pages to spring forth when you are at your least suspecting–ravenously gnawing with literary teeth at your falsely preconceived notions of the real and the safe. Dare you spin the wheel of fate and step into the mind of a madman?
Well, DARE YOU?”
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