Chad Anctil
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The amazing anthology ‘Christmas of the Dead: Yule Cat Codex’ is now available! It features my story, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Solstice’, that asks the question “What if the legends of Krampus were based on something much older, much darker? Something ancient and malevolent?” Buy the Paperback: https://rb.gy/j5zoi8 Buy the ePub here and…
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I have new shorts stories in two great anthologies that have come out recently: My Story ‘Sleeping In The Shadow Of The War Drums’ is in the new apocalyptic anthology ‘Apocalyptales: The End is Nigh’. I’m really proud of this story and I’m glad it’s getting a lot of attention in this anthology! Paperback Version ePub…
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An author friend of mine was commenting about some of the outlandish novels that he was seeing advertised to him on Facebook, and came up with a hilarious synopsis for a story… So of course, I had to try to write it. From Rory Raven: “When an ancient druid puts out a contract on Cthulhu,…
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Inspired by the news story of a 3400-year-old palace from a mysterious kingdom surfacing in Iraq during drought The desk phone on the old wooden desk rang with a shrill chime, causing Ahmed to jump slightly. He couldn’t remember the last time that phone had rang, in the age of mobile phones. He momentarily marveled…
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Better late than never – I am very happy to announce my newest creative venture – Mysterious Observations in Providence! This is a bit of an experiment in modern information-age storytelling that takes the form of an alternate-reality blog. The main character, Chad Martens, has inherited a mysterious steamer trunk from his recently deceased grandfather,…
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This flash fiction sci-fi piece made the final round in the 2010 Escape Artists national fiction contest. European astronomers saw it first; a dim, cobalt-blue star with a color and position that made it immediately clear that it was something new and different. It was little more than a curiosity at first – not many…
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My name is Ron Weasley, and while the major events of our fourth year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry may be well known – especially those events associated with the tri-wizard tournament and the rise of the dark lord Voldemort, there were other events, witnessed only by a select few, which would prove…
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Nobody was smiling. Nobody was even looking at one another. Eyes panned across the scene like robotic security cameras, viewing the scene flatly but not actually seeing it. Not registering it. Alex could tell which of the others were there for the same reason he and Sam were there. It was the look in their…
Visions of a Dark Horizon 