F. P. Dorchak

Speculative Fiction Author

About

F. P. Dorchak
F. P. Dorchak

Gritty, realistic. Weird. Occasionally amusing.

F. P. (Frank) Dorchak has been writing since he was six years old, is a huge Twilight Zone fan, and has always written about the supernatural, paranormal, and the metaphysical, otherwise collectively defined as upmarket, even literary, Speculative or New Weird fiction. His short stories have been published in the U.S., Canada, and the Czech Republic. F. P. Dorchak’s five novels are Sleepwalkers, The Uninvited, ERO, Psychic, and A Philosophy of Stars. He’s also published to Kindle short stories “Clowns” and “Broken Windows.” Do The Dead Dream? is the 2017 Best Book Awards winner in the Fiction: Short Stories category, and is a collection of the best of his work over (at the time) the past 40 years, which he calls “gritty Twilight Zone-like fiction.” A Philosophy of Stars is his first novel in 10 years.

Frank grew up between Whitefield, New Hampshire and Key West, Florida, finally settling in upstate New York’s Adirondack mountains. After graduating Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, Arizona, he was commissioned in the U. S. Air Force for nearly seven years and performed duties in missile warning and satellite operations. He is now a retired defense contractor. In his twenties, Frank studied acting and modeling at the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center and “Writing to Sell Fiction” under James Kisner and Writer’s Digest. He is, very occasionally, an amateur photographer, is (as of June 4, 2020) a recent student of the violin, and has studied physics, philosophy, and metaphysics.  Frank has presented and volunteered at a local writers’ conference for many years, presented at writers’ groups, and has been interviewed on local and Internet radio. He’s also spoken at Discovery Canyon Campus High School, in Colorado Springs, for their 2019 “Writers’ Week.” Amazingly, Frank can also occasionally be reached in séances…but don’t believe everything he tells you….

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Publishing Credits (U.S. unless stated otherwise)

Short Stories

  • “Fear” – Tyro #19 (Canadian), January 6, 1989
  • “A Conversation with Hell” – SCIFANT #8, May 5, 1988
  • “Attention Span” – Tyro #26 (Canadian), June 1990
  • “The Coming of Light” – Tyro # 32/33 (Canadian), October 1991
  • “Brains” (“Mozky“) – Ikarie (Czech Republic), July 1992
  • “Walkers” – Thin Ice #20 (went defunct before published), March 13, 1992
  • “Contamination” – Aberrations #11, February 8, 1993
  • “St. Vincent” – Black Sheep #40, May 2001
  • “Blondie’s” – Black Sheep #45, February/March 2002
  • “Etched in Stone” – The Waking Muse #1 (now defunct), date unknown
  • “The Death of Me” – Black Sheep #48, August/September 2002
  • “Freefallin’” – Black Sheep #60, August/September 2004
  • “The World’s Greatest Writer” – Black Sheep #62, December/January 2005
  • “Tick Tock” – Black Sheep #64, April/May 2005
  • “Etched in Stone” (reprint) – Apollo’s Lyre, November 2005
  • “Dark was the Hour” – Apollo’s Lyre, December 2007
  • “Tail Gunner” – Black Sheep #103, October 2011
  • “Tail Gunner” (reprint) – The Longmont Public Library’s You Belong Collection (anthology), Writings and Illustrations from Longmont Area Residents, 2012
  • “Broken Windows” – The Longmont Public Library’s You Belong 2016 (anthology), Words and Images from Longmont Area Residents, 2016
  • “Garden of the Gods” – Black Sheep #138, August/September 2017
  • “Clowns” – Indie Published, Wailing Loon, March 8, 2016
  • “Broken Windows” – Indie published (2nd edition) – July 25, 2017

Novels

  • Sleepwalkers – Indie published, 1st Books/Author House, September 28, 2001
  • The Uninvited – Indie Published, Wailing Loon, May 15, 2013
  • ERO – Indie Published, Wailing Loon, August 8, 2013
  • Psychic – Indie published, Wailing Loon, August 7, 2014

Anthology

Do The Dead Dream?, Indie published, Wailing Loon, October 1, 2017 – 2017 Best Book Awards winner in Fiction: Short Stories

Essays

Articles

Works-in-Progress (WIP)

  • Agent is currently shopping a science-fiction manuscript (2023)
  • Currently working on his newest Speculative Fiction WIP (2023)

Other Projects

  • The Star Crumbles – A Mockumentary by Marc Schuster (Fall 2022)