Chad Hensley is an explorer in the dark side of music, literature, and art. His writing has appeared in such anthologies as The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, Apocalypse Culture 2 and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music as well as magazines like Spin, Rue Morgue, Hustler, Fangoria, Super7, Juxtapoz, Terrorizer, Warp Japan, Slayer, Morbid Curiosity and many others. His fiction and poetry have received honorable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His poetry collection What the Cacodaemon Whispered was a Finalist for the 2001 Bram Stoker Award.

He is currently a contributing editor for the first all-English Japanese toy culture magazine Super7.

Super7 issue #11 features Chad's interview with Glenn Danzig about his current obsession with Japanese toys as well as his musical career with the Misfits, Samhain, and his current band.

Look for Chad's fiction in Allen K's Inhuman #4 and Fangoria.

He is the featured poet in Black October Magazine #6 and Dark Legacy #15, which contains his 3rd poetry collection The Ambient Darkness. He also has poetry in Flesh & Blood #15 and #16 along with the October 2004 issue of Chiaroscuro.

Coming in May of 2007, Naked Snake Press will release a new poetry collection of Chad's work with illustrations by Harry Fassl titled Shades of Darkness.

Winner of the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology

features the story
"The Night City"
by Chad Hensley
and W.H. Pugmire

Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
features interview with Masami Akita, the mastermind of Merzbow, originally titled "The Beauty of Noise" and was first printed in Seconds Magazine issue #42, 1997.