In a mixture of Stephen King, Rod Serling, and the X-Files, paranormal fiction author F. P. Dorchak delves into the world of the supernatural, the unexplained, and the metaphysical to explore who we are and why we exist...

F. P. (Frank) Dorchak began his writing career at the young age of six, when he wrote and drew about the Civil War--of which he felt he'd lived in another life--but it wasn't until the age of fourteen or fifteen that he began actively writing short stories. He wrote his first horror stories with such telling titles as "The Sealed Flesh," "The Change," "The Gargoyle," "The Statue," and his critically acclaimed (at least in Mr. Spence's Fifth Period, Eleventh-grade English class), "Crypt Of Vampyres." He already knew the all-important "The" placement needed for successful horror classics!

Frank continued his adolescent writing efforts through the end of high school (once, while in grade school, Frank "got in trouble" when he wrote an entire story around the outside of their house--and was then made to clean it all off, then stand in the corner as punishment), but ended up going into his "hibernation period," as he attended Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he studied physics/astronomy, German, and philosophy (he was one course shy of a double minor in German and philosophy). Frank later entered the U.S. Air Force for seven years. Frank also attended acting and modeling classes with the John Casablancas Agency, attended "go-sees" (auditions) in the late eighties, but found the drive to write more imperative than the drive to act. Frank  knew he would come back into writing, and kept every original scrap of paper on which he'd ever scribbled an idea. It wasn't until the mid eighties that he finally crawled out of writing hibernation and purchased a Royal electric typewriter (and later a PC), and enrolled in the Writer's Digest correspondence course, under the keen tutelage of author James Kisner.

Frank began building his story collection by writing during every spare moment, and self-taught himself as much as possible about the art and Zen of writing. Frank attended more critique groups than he can shake a manuscript at--some of which were excellent, and some of which... weren't--he was actually thrown out of one group, because of his horror and supernatural subject matter!  Initially Frank focused on short stories, but has since come to focus almost entirely on novel-length fiction, though he does pen the occasional short story between novel manuscripts. In 1993, Frank took second in the inaugural SF/Fantasy category of the Pikes Peak Writers Conference contest, with the still-unplaced horror manuscript Village Idiot, and in 2001 Frank became a POD Person, and  self-published his first paranormal/metaphysical novel, Sleepwalkers (Author House, 2001). Frank has since been published in the US, Canada, and "the old Czechoslovakia," now the Czech Republic, with over a dozen paranormal short stories in various small-press magazines.  Among his work, Frank has written about fear, monsters, a race of forever-walking people, a paradoxical love, a Civil War soldier lost in time, a "shipwrecked UFO," the end of the world, a letter that changes the lives of all it touches, a guy who fell in love with a voice in his head, a supernatural/metaphysical mass murder, the world's greatest writer, and many, many more tales of the superordinary and fantastic....

Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Frank was raised in the heart of the ancient Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, after bouncing around in Virginia, Florida, and New Hampshire, and ended up settling along the majestic Rocky Mountains with his wife, imagination, two cats, and memory of his close writing partner, "Mac," a black lab who died in 2003. Frank is a past member of both the Horror Writers of America (HWA) and Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN), and a current member in the local writer organizations Pikes Peak Writers and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Frank actively participates in assisting at the Pikes Peak Writer's Conference (PPWC), since its inception in 1993.