Chad Anctil

  • Celebrating NecronomiCon 2024 – ‘Coffee with Howard’

    In honor of Necronomicon 2024 starting this week, I have written a new story that’s been bouncing around in my head for a while now. It’s a weird little tale about time travel, philosophy, the origins of horror, and drinking black coffee with H. P. Lovecraft in 1935. I hope you enjoy it. Coffee with…

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  • My story ‘Memories Remain’, a twisted tale of grief and the darkness it can unleash, has been released in the all new Wicked Shadow Press anthology ‘Dead Girls Walking: The Purple volume’, a horror anthology featuring female ghosts and supernatural terrors. I’m really proud of this story, readers have said it is very creepy and…

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  • Navigating the Writer’s World: Standing Out in a Sea of Stories

    It is estimated that each year about 4 million books are published in the United States alone, between traditional publishing and self-published authors.  4 Million.  Doing some quick back of the napkin math, that is about 77,000 books per week, on average.  That’s 11,000 books per DAY.  And we, as writers, want to climb to…

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  • I am really excited to announce that my first novel, ‘The Midnight Tree’, has been updated from cover to cover and has been re-released on Amazon, and this time it FINALLY has an eBook version! When I first wrote ‘The Midnight Tree’ over 15 years ago I was only just beginning my writing journey and…

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  • Summer Writing

    I know a lot of writers have their writing ‘habits’ – writing in a certain room, or writing with certain music on, or in silence, or only writing in the morning – you get the picture.  I’ve never had much of that; when I have something I want to write, I usually sit there with…

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  • My new zombie flash fiction story ‘Bitten’ has been published in the all new flash fiction anthology ‘Flash of the Undead’ – a fantastic anthology featuring 70 flash fiction tales from an international array of authors, dealing with zombies, mummies, and all the various flavors of undead horror! My story is about a man, bitten…

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  • Another story published!

    My tale of blood and murder, ‘The Mask of the Vampire’, is now published in the all new anthology ‘Masks of Sanity: Hidden in Plain Sight’. The anthology is all about ‘secret psychopaths’ and it looks really great – the cover is terrifying and the stories I’ve seen so far look intense. You can get…

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  • New Anthology Released!

    My story ‘Crimson Moon’ is now available in the new flash fiction anthology ‘Femme Fatale Flashes’ from Wicked Shadow Press. I can’t give anything away, no spoilers in a crime story, but this is an all new genre for me and it was really fun and challenging to write, I hope people really enjoy it!…

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  • My first published piece of 2024 has officially been released – my flash fiction story ‘The Shoggoths Next door’ is now available in the anthology ‘Flash of the Dead: Requiem’ from the excellent Wicked Shadow Press. This is my fourth piece published through them; they really like my writing and their anthologies have been really high…

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  • By Chad Anctil I’ve been writing for a long time, let’s say thirty years, give or take.  Novels, short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction.  I’ve been published, I’ve self published, I’ve been featured in anthologies, made the cover of magazines, I’ve even been translated into Spanish once.  I have been professionally edited, I’ve self edited, I’ve…

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