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About

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D. Alexander Ward is an author and anthologist of horror and dark fiction. In addition to his latest novel POUND OF FLESH, he is the author of numerous short stories and the novels BLOOD SAVAGES and BENEATH ASH & BONE.
 

As an anthologist, he edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies LOST HIGHWAYS: Dark Fictions From the Road and GUTTED: Beautiful Horror Stories (co-edited) from Crystal Lake Publishing as well as the anthologies THE SEVEN DEADLIEST (co-edited), SHADOWS OVER MAIN STREET, Volumes 1 and 2 (co-edited), and STRANGE ECHOES (co-edited).

 

His forthcoming novel NIGHTJAR will be published by Watertower Hill Publishing in April, 2026.
 

He is an Active Member of the Horror Writers Association where he is the Chair of the Virginia Chapter, and very involved in the small press publishing world of horror and dark fiction, where he runs Bleeding Edge Books.

Along with his beloved wife and daughter and the haints in the woods, he lives near the farm where he grew up in what used to be rural Virginia, where his love for the people, passions, and folklore of the South was nurtured. There, he spends his nights penning, collecting, and publishing tales of the dark, strange, and fantastic.

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