{"id":78,"date":"2025-06-26T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:16:38","slug":"about-jason-barat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/?page_id=78","title":{"rendered":"About Jason Barat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" style=\"width:290px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/author_photo_color.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Jason Barat<\/strong> is a speculative fiction author who writes surreal, unsettling stories grounded in very human fears\u2014identity, control, obsession, and what it means to exist at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work blends science fiction, psychological horror, and dystopian futures, often placing ordinary people in impossible realities: worlds trapped in virtual deception, gods who can still die, and timelines that refuse to stay linear. Jason\u2019s stories favor emotional weight over spectacle, leaving readers uneasy long after the final page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the creator of the <strong>Curious Tales<\/strong> universe, which began with <em>Curious Tales of a Warped Reality<\/em> and continues to expand through interconnected novels and anthologies inspired by <em>Black Mirror<\/em>, <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>, and existential sci-fi classics. His novels include <em>June Day<\/em>, <em>The Infinite Man<\/em>, and the forthcoming <em>Curious Tales of a Warped Reality Vol. 2<\/em>, with additional projects in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he\u2019s not writing, Jason works in tech support, coaches baseball, chases after his kids, and turns strange ideas into even stranger stories. He believes the best fiction doesn\u2019t answer questions\u2014it makes you uncomfortable enough to ask better ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Barat is a speculative fiction author who writes surreal, unsettling stories grounded in very human fears\u2014identity, control, obsession, and what it means to exist at all. His work blends science fiction, psychological horror, and dystopian futures, often placing ordinary people in impossible realities: worlds trapped in virtual deception, gods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curioustalesbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}