Starved

by Chad Anctil (Contributor), Jay Chakraborty (Editor), Joshua Vise (Contributor)

STARVED is a visceral anthology of modern fiction that confronts hunger in all its forms: physical, emotional, social and existential.

Spanning continents and genres, these stories strip starvation of metaphor and expose it as lived experience: bodies emptied by famine and poverty, minds hollowed by obsession, societies eroded by cruelty, consumption and neglect. Here, hunger is not only the absence of food, but the presence of want: of love, justice, memory, autarky and meaning.

STARVED features everything from quiet domestic horror to speculative brutality, from psychological realism to razor-edged allegory; gathering an international roster of writers who interrogate what it means to survive when the world withholds what is essential.

Edited by Jay Chakravarti, STARVED is the latest in CultureCult Press’ boundary-pushing fiction anthologies that examine the fractures of modern life via stories that confront social decay, psychological extremity and the unspoken hungers of our time.

AUTHORS FEATURED IN STARVED:
Aidan Bernales, Andrea Tillmanns, Aparna Mukherjee, Bruce Markuson, Candice Louisa Daquin, Chad Anctil, Charles PR Stott, Christopher Dabrowski, Christopher Lavin, D.H.Parish, David Hutto, Don Reilly, Fernando E. Silva, Henry Vinicio Valerio Madriz, Jay Chakravarti, Joshua Vise, Julian Drury, Kelly Barker, Linda M. Crate, Louise Gillespie, Lynn White, Mandy DeGeit, Mark Antokas, Monira Islam Mira, Nick Young, Pip Pinkerton, R Meldrum, Richard Stimac, Robert Pope, Shane Porteous, Shirlee Jellum, Simon Mohsin, Soter Lucio AND William Carlo Antonio Sanchez

Unknown Binding

Published January 18, 2026

About the author

Chad Anctil grew up in the fascinating little state of Rhode Island, birthplace of H.P. Lovecraft and his peculiar branch of fiction, where he found his love for reading and horror at a young age – probably too young, but that’s just how Generation X did it. He has always been creative, taking up both writing and DJing in his teenage years before joining the Navy as an electronics engineer on fast attack submarines through the 90s.

Moving from New England to various parts of California, Hawaii, and beyond gave Chad a view into strange underworlds of art and dance and literature, from technicolor electronic dance parties in abandoned warehouses to vampire poetry performance art held in graveyards, to crazed robot combat held in secret, under dark highway overpasses. Throughout these experiences he often imagined there were secret inhuman forces at play, and created detailed landscapes where the dark world of the supernatural brushed up against his own mundane world, driving his creativity and his writing.

Moving back to New England after leaving the military, Chad’s path has always struggled between his artistic desires and his desire to pay his mortgage and cover health insurance for his wife and son, so he has devoted his days to software engineering where he currently works in cybersecurity, and his nights to his art, where he is not only a writer of horror and urban fantasy, he is also a nationally recognized fire performer, flowarts instructor, DJ and more.

Chad is currently contracted with Perspective Publishing for the release of his urban fantasy crime series ‘Providence SCU’, with book one expected to be released in 2025.