Pat Harrigan

Patrick Harrigan is a writer and editor. He is the co-editor of several MIT Press collections on games and new media, including Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (2016), with Matthew Kirschenbaum, and the series First Person, Second Person and Third Person (2004-2009), with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. He also performs readings and original spoken-word pieces in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Not-So Silent Planet cabaret, American Civic Forum, and the Encyclopedia Show, among other places; most of this work is available in the two collections The Lecture Tour and On Tour Forever.

His series of weird microfictions, "The Sunday Scaries," appears weekly at ghoulishdelights dot com.

He is a former marketing director and creative developer for Fantasy Flight Games, and co-edited FFG’s The Art of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (2006), with Brian Wood. He has also written a novel, Lost Clusters (2005), a collection of short stories, Thin Times and Thin Places (2012), and has had other work published by Camden House, Fantasy Flight Games, Chaosium, Pagan Publishing, Gameplaywright, and ETC Press.