Chad Stewart
Stories about courage, darkness, resilience—and the people who find their way through them.
AUTHOR • SCREENWRITER • STORYTELLER
Chad Stewart is a Canadian author, poet, Â and screenwriter whose work spans supernatural horror, post-apocalyptic fiction, young-adult adventure, inspirational nonfiction and personal development.
The Story Behind the Stories
   Chad Stewart has spent much of his life telling stories—and much of it witnessing the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
 An author of ten books spanning horror, young-adult adventure, inspirational nonfiction and personal development, Chad has always been fascinated by people: what drives them, what frightens them, what breaks them, and what allows them to endure.
   That fascination extends far beyond the page.
   A professional firefighter and paramedic, Chad has spent years encountering people during some of the most difficult moments of their lives. His experiences in emergency services have given him a unique perspective on fear, trauma, courage, loss, resilience and the remarkable ways people respond when circumstances strip everything else away.
   Those themes have inevitably found their way into his fiction.
   Whether his characters are confronting supernatural evil, surviving the collapse of civilization, uncovering ancient mysteries, or simply trying to find their place in the world, Chad's stories continually return to one question.
"What are people capable of when everything is on the line?"
TEN BOOKS. MANY WORLDS. ONE STORYTELLER.
Darkness
The Pact • Dreamland
Adventure
The Dillon Hunt Adventure Series
Faith and History
The Reformers • The First Resurrection • The Church History Catechism
Life and Growth
How To Rock The Job Interview
From monsters and ancient mysteries to history, faith and personal growth, Chad's catalogue reflects a lifelong curiosity about people, ideas and the forces that shape us.
FROM FIREFIGHTER TO FILMMAKER
   Chad's storytelling has increasingly moved beyond the printed page.
   Following the publication of his supernatural horror novel The Pact, Chad adapted the story into both a feature screenplay and a six-part limited television series.
   In 2025, The Pact was featured in The Hollywood Reporter, marking another step in Chad's growing journey from novelist to screenwriter.
   He is currently developing additional screen projects while continuing to write fiction.
BEYOND THE PAGE
Storytelling is only one part of Chad's life.
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After more than two decades in leadership and management, he transitioned into full-time emergency services as a firefighter and paramedic. He also serves his community as an elected City Councillor in Airdrie, Alberta.
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Across leadership, emergency services and public life, Chad has spent decades working with people—listening to their stories, navigating difficult circumstances, and seeing firsthand the complexity of the communities we build together.
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Those experiences continue to shape both the person he is and the stories he tells.
WHEN I'M NOT WRITING
When he's not writing, working or serving his community, Chad can usually be found reading, exercising, exploring somewhere new, riding his motorcycle, hanging with friends and family, playing Dungeons & Dragons—or daydreaming about the next story when he's supposed to be doing something else.
WHY I WRITE
I write because I am fascinated by possibility—the extraordinary circumstances people can find themselves in, the challenges that test them, and the choices that reveal who they truly are.
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When I begin a story, I don't simply want to know what happens. I want to know who these people will become because it happened to them.
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My characters become very real to me. I live with them, struggle with them, celebrate with them, and sometimes grieve with them. Over the course of writing a novel, they become more than characters on a page. In some small way, they become part of me.
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Writing is also a refuge. It gives me somewhere to put the noise of life—to transform stress, emotion, imagination, and experience into something meaningful. Poetry has become an especially personal part of that process, giving me a way to explore emotions that aren't always easily expressed in ordinary conversation.
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But ultimately, I write because I want to share the experience of a story.
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I want readers to become as invested in these worlds and characters as I am. I want them to feel the anticipation of turning the next page, to fear for these people, laugh with them, hurt with them, fall in love with them—and miss them when the story is over.
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If a character who began in my imagination can become real in someone else's, then I've accomplished what I set out to do.