Born in the shadow of Lovecraft’s Providence, Chad Anctil developed a lifelong obsession with the macabre at an early age. After a decade spent as a Navy electronics engineer on fast-attack submarines, Chad returned to his creative roots to craft intricate worlds of urban fantasy and horror.

Moving from New England to various parts of California, Hawaii, and beyond gave Chad a view into strange underworlds of art and dance and literature, from technicolor electronic dance parties in abandoned warehouses to vampire poetry performance art held in graveyards, to crazed robot combat held in secret, under dark highway overpasses.  Throughout these experiences, he often imagined secret, inhuman forces at play and created detailed landscapes where the dark world of the supernatural brushed up against his own mundane world, driving his creativity and writing.

Chad is the author of the Providence Supernatural Crimes Unit series from Perspective Publishing and the best-selling supernatural mystery, The Midnight Tree. In addition to guest-editing the Circus of the Dead anthology, his short fiction has appeared in over 40 collections from publishers such as Wicked Shadow Press, The Horror Zine, and the New England Horror Writers. Chad is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the Association of Rhode Island Authors (ARIA), and the New England Horror Writers (NEHW). He shares new stories and writing insights at chadanctil.com.