M. Patrick Furry is an author of speculative fiction who explores the unsettling spaces where reality frays. His work creates a unique blend of grounded, character-driven storytelling, focusing on how ordinary people navigate extraordinary terrors and dark wonders of the world.

 

His portfolio includes diverse narratives ranging from the dark persistence of childhood imaginary friends to the analog nightmares of his latest horror novel, PLAY. His speculative novel, The Casual Oblivion of Francis Keene—Seventy-year-old Francis Keene is a lifelong grifter with a miraculous—and cursed—secret: he can see "The Tells," the visual projections of everyone's deepest traumas and lies. Done carrying the burden, Frank invents a terminal diagnosis, guilts his estranged family into a final road trip to Florida, and plots his "Casual Oblivion".

 

But when Frank realizes his anxious, thirteen-year-old grandson, Eli, has inherited the Tells, the journey transforms. Driving toward the Florida coast, Frank must decide between the peace he has craved for decades and a final act that might actually redeem him: teaching his grandson how to survive a world that feels too much.—is currently under consideration for publication and film/TV optioning.

 

He lives in Novato, California, with his wife, their son, and two dogs named Poe & Harriet.