Chad Stroup

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About Chad Stroup

Chad Stroup is a writer and editor from San Diego, California. His dark short stories and poetry have been featured in various publications. Secrets of the Weird is his first novel.

Stroup received his MFA in Fiction from San Diego State University. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the San Diego Horror Professionals, and he dearly misses playing music.

Visit his blog at http://subvertbia.blogspot.com/, or drop by his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ChadStroupWriter.

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Secrets of the Weird Jul 11, 2017

by Chad Stroup, Anthony Rivera

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The fulfillment of your every desire… That’s the enticing yet dangerous promise of Sweet Candy, the new designer drug making the rounds through the community of club kids, neo-Nazis, drag queens, prostitutes and punks who populate the mean streets of Sweetville.

With its chewable hearts and candied lips threatening to forever transform the delicate social balance and the very lives of each and every member of the city’s underground, Sweet Candy is poised to ignite the tenuous powder keg that is life, love and lust in Sweetville.

But could the enigmatic back-alley surgeon Julius Kast and his partnership with a peculiar cult be the spark that lights the fuse once and for all? And how will their actions affect the life of a young woman named Trixie who is seeking salvation through transformation?

Take a remarkable journey that’s equal parts irreverent social commentary, revisionist dystopia, dark fantasy and horrifying reality when you travel to the unforgettable world of Sweetville’s counterculture where a host of sometimes dangerous, often deviant and always dark secrets are waiting to be revealed.

Such secrets refuse to be confined to Sweetville.
But instead will come home with you.
Changing everything.
Forever…

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Worst Laid Plans: an Anthology of Vacation Horror Jul 15, 2020

by Samantha Kolesnik, Greg Sisco, Hailey Piper, Kenzie Jennings, V. Castro, Patrick Lacey, Scott Cole, Laura Keating, Mark Wheaton, Jeremy Herbert

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A fateful family trip to an amusement park. An island movie theater that takes more than the patrons' cash. A cross-country drive with an unexpected encounter. A family man hellbent on making great time, no matter the cost.

Fourteen horror authors share terrifying and twisted tales of summer vacation gone wrong in Worst Laid Plans: an Anthology of Vacation Horror.

This anthology includes stories by V. Castro, Hailey Piper, Patrick Lacey, Scott Cole, Laura Keating, Malcolm Mills, Jeremy Herbert, S. E. Howard, Chad Stroup, Kenzie Jennings, Waylon Jordan, Greg Sisco, Asher Ellis, and Mark Wheaton, as well as a special introduction by Sadie Hartmann.

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Lost Films Aug 21, 2018

by Various, Max Booth III, Lori Michelle

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From the editors of Lost Signals comes the new volume in technological horror. Nineteen authors, both respected and new to the genre, team up to deliver a collection of terrifying, eclectic stories guaranteed to unsettle its readers. In Lost Films, a deranged group of lunatics hold an annual film festival, the lost series finale of The Simpsons corrupts a young boy’s sanity, and a VCR threatens to destroy reality. All of that and much more, with fiction from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Kelby Losack, Bob Pastorella, Brian Asman, Leigh Harlen, Dustin Katz, Andrew Novak, Betty Rocksteady, John C. Foster, Ashlee Scheuerman, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Kev Harrison, Thomas Joyce, Jessica McHugh, Kristi DeMeester, Izzy Lee, Chad Stroup, and David James Keaton.

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Sexy Leper Mar 29, 2019

by Chad Stroup

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It’s Halloween in the Hollywood Hills, and Kat Dyer’s going to have the sexiest costume for a night of shameless debauchery. However, Kat’s plan is derailed when the costume shop screws up her order and gives her a costume that is the polar-opposite of sexy. Deciding it’s better to be temporarily ugly and seen than beautiful and quickly forgotten, Kat attends the biggest party of the year, only to awaken with the strangest post-Halloween hangover ever: partygoers are transforming into the likenesses of the costumes they wore the night before. Meanwhile, a mysterious force begins to stalk and pick them off on by one. Kat and her friends must discover the cause of the horror, and what they find will haunt them forever.

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Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations Oct 23, 2018

by F. Wilson, Elizabeth Bear, Bracken MacLeod, Seanan McGuire, Elizabeth Massie, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, Gwendolyn Kiste, Michael Bailey, Lucy Snyder

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The fourth volume in the critically-acclaimed Chiral Mad Series. 4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders. But here's the catch: Every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Bram Stoker Award winners Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even co-edited the anthology to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience. Includes a co-introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck and Janet Harriett!So, once again, crack the spine, dig your claws deep into these pages, sit back, and enjoy a new kind of chirality.

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HWA Poetry Showcase Volume IV Oct 15, 2017

by David E. Cowen, Bruce Boston, Clay F. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Marge Simon, Alessandro Manzetti, Ann K. Schwader, Robert Perez

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This fourth volume in the Horror Writers Association's acclaimed Poetry Showcase series features more of the exciting, disturbing, and beautiful verse that has made these collections favorites with lovers of the darkly lyrical. Includes new work by such popular poets of the macabre as Bruce Boston, Alessandro Manzetti, Ann K. Schwader, Marge Simon, and Stephanie M. Wytovich.

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HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II Oct 12, 2015

by Tausha Johnson, Michelle Scalise, Vincent Miskell, Mark Fuller Dillon, Tom Piccirilli, Peter Adam Salomon

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HWA's second annual Poetry Showcase volume features dark verse from some of the world's most acclaimed poets, as well as memorable new voices. In addition to startling and original work by featured poets Tausha Johnson, Michelle Scalise, Vincent Miskell, and Mark Fuller Dillon, this volume also includes poems by Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and dozens more. As an extra added feature, Volume II includes tributes to Rocky Wood and Tom Piccirilli by some of the biggest names in horror and poetry.

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Splatterlands: Reawakening the Splatterpunk Revolution Oct 2, 2013

by Michael Laimo, Ray Garton, Gregory L. Norris, J. Michael Major, Eric Del Carlo, James S. Dorr, Christine Morgan, Anthony Rivera, Sharon Lawson, Grey Matter Press

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WARNING! THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART OR WEAK OF STOMACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO READ THIS BOOK IF YOU'RE NOT READY TO CHALLENGE YOUR CONCEPT OF TERROR OR IF YOU'RE UNWILLING TO QUESTION WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS THE DEFINITION OF HORROR.

Almost three decades ago, a literary movement forever changed the landscape of the horror industry. SPLATTERLANDS is a collection of personal, intelligent and subversive horror with a point. This illustrated volume of dark fiction honors the truly revolutionary efforts of some of the most brilliant writers of all time with an all-new collection of visceral, disturbing and thought-provoking work from a diverse group of modern minds.

Exploring concepts that include serial murder, betrayal, religious fanaticism, physical abuse, societal corruption, greed, mental instability, sexual assault and more, SPLATTERLANDS delivers on the promise of the original Splatterpunk movement with this collection of honest, intelligent, ground-breaking and hyper-intensive horror.

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HEIRLOOM by Michael Laimo
After the death of her mother, Father is all Lucienne’s got. But she’s in competition for his affection with an antique rifle. Soon her admiration for the weapon becomes far greater than she imagined.

VIOLENCE FOR FUN AND PROFIT by Gregory L. Norris
Economic collapse hurts everyone, except the greedy. For one newly-homeless it’s a time to discover all-new talents. And they open doors to vicious and profitable opportunities.

EMPTY by A.A. Garrison
Navigating the streets of a tortured, future city, a devoted wife will stop at nothing to help her husband regain his faith in religion. But, from the faithless, questionable gods require a dire payment.

AMPUTATIONS IN THE KEY OF D by Jack Maddox
Danny is a rock star and charlatan. After a routine surgery changes his life, he discovers there’s far more painful methods of finding one’s true talent.

HOUSESITTING by Ray Garton
A suburban housewife agrees to housesit for her neighbors when a routine visit to feed the pets changes her world forever. She soon realizes the definition of a horrifying secret.

DIS by Michele Garber
Things aren’t going well for Dr. Tony Weiss. He can’t deal with his patients or his quadriplegic wife. Then there is the demon that escapes from his nightmares and enters his waking world.

DWELLERS by Paul M. Collrin
During a fateful trip into the desert to evangelize to a congregation of drug-addicted souls, a would-be prophet opens the schism between Heaven and Hell. He and his atheist partner soon become participants in terrifying battle over religion.

PARTY GUESTS by Chad Stroup
On the outside, Geoffrey seems like most young men. Some might say he’s the life of the party. But on the inside he’s very different. And he’ll take you on a horrifying journey into mania that you won’t soon forget.

THE VISCERA OF WORSHIP by Allen Griffin
Inherent in all of us is the desire to belong. Searching for his place in the world, one man takes steps down a path into true darkness to find his ultimate purpose.

THE DEFILED by Christine Morgan
On the run from their enemies, a group of vicious thieves and rapists seek refuge within a community of swamp dwellers. It isn’t long before they realize their safety is anything but certain.

THE ARTIST by James S. Dorr
There are countless mediums for an artist to choose in which to ply their trade. Vince is drawn to the unusual--creating masterpieces from slabs of meat.

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San Diego Horror Professionals: Vol. 3 Jul 4, 2017

by Ryan C. Thomas, David Agranoff, Ryan Bradford, Jennifer D. Corley, Robert Essig, Ben Johnson

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Join San Diego’s most terrifying authors as they bring you on journeys into madness and horror. From demons and ghosts to the strange and weird, each story in this collection is sure to leave you with a healthy respect for the So Cal darkness.

San Diego Horror Professionals, Volume 3 is the third in a unique series highlighting the best of America’s Finest City.

"There’s no fat in this tight and terror-filled anthology of dark fiction from a place where it’s always sunny!” - Desmond Reddick, Dread Media podcast

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HWA Poetry Showcase Volume III Aug 6, 2016

by Michael A. Arnzen, Bruce Boston, Corrine De Winter, Kathryn Ptacek, Chad Stroup, David E. Cowen

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This third volume in HWA's highly acclaimed poetry series has more than 50 never-before-published dark poems, including work from featured poets Bruce Boston, Chad Stroup, Corrine De Winter, Kathryn Ptacek, and Michael A. Arnzen.

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San Diego Horror Professionals: Vol. 1 Oct 11, 2016

by Ryan C. Thomas, Bryan Killian, Anthony Trevino, Chad Stroup, Robert Essig, David Agranoff

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Join authors Ryan C. Thomas, Anthony Trevino, David Agranoff, Chad Stroup, Bryan Killian, and Robert Essig as they bring you on journeys into madness and horror. Each story in this collection is sure to leave you shaken and scared! Enter if you dare! San Diego Horror Professionals, Volume 1 is the first in a unique collection highlighting the best talent in America’s Finest City!

“Buckle up because this is a wild ride! SDHP takes readers along some crazy back roads in this collection of original and very creepy tales.” –Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Patient Zero

“There's no fat in this tight and terror-filled anthology of dark fiction from a place where it's always sunny!" - Desmond Reddick, Dread Media podcast

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