Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Charles Wood

Charles Wood Biography

Charles Wood is a recent addition to the writing scene and writes horror, dark fantasy, and other light-hearted fabrications. Charles served in the Marine Corps 1988-1996. He also served in the Army Reserve and Air Force National Guard.

Book Recommendation: Dark Corners of the Old Dominion: A Virginia Horror Anthology

His most recently published work is a flash fiction piece, “The Girl Who Sleeps in the Room Next to Me” in the Dark Corners of the Old Dominion anthology published by Death Knell Press. (from the back cover) “From Edgar Allan Poe’s Ragged Mountains to the shores of Tidewater’s Seven Cities… From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of the Civil War to the shadowy political arena of the D.C. Beltway… We have four hundred years’ worth of ghost stories, folk horrors, small-town terrors, urban legends, backwoods beasts, otherworldly secrets, and down-home Southern Gothic. Within this idyllic landscape, there are many dark corners. Within these pages, Virginia authors explore twenty-three dangerous destinations, myths, and monsters from the Commonwealth’s past, present, and future. Read on, if you dare.”