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 Terrorizer, Spin, Rue Morgue, Seconds, Gauntlet, Hustler, Juxtapoz, Morbid Curiosity, and Super7 Magazine (where he was also contributing editor for most of the magazine) 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. His poetry has appeared in Spectral Realms, The Pedestal Magazine, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Space and Time, Crypt of Cthulhu, Deathrealm, and many others.