Chad Hensley

A crafted reporter on cultural extremes in music and art, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Chad Hensley saw several years of his writing on underground subjects as EsoTerra: The Journal of Extreme Culture, through Creation Books in 2011. Hensley's work has appeared in such praised publications as Rue Morgue, Weird Fiction Review, Terrorizer, Spin, Hustler, Juxtapoz, and Super7 Magazine (where he was also contributing editor) as well as the books Apocalypse Culture 2 and The Darker Side: Generations of Horror. His fiction and poetry have received honorable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award. His poetry collection What the Cacodaemon Whispered was a Finalist for the 2001 Bram Stoker Award. In May of 2014, Raw Dog Screaming Pressed published his poetry book Embrace the Hideous Immaculate. His poetry has also appeared in the first six volumes of Spectral Realms published by Hippocampus Press, Weirdbook #31 and #32, Skelos Magazine #2, Weird Fiction Review #5, Dreams and Nightmares, and many others.