The Channel Chad Dable was born on August 11th of 1968 and was raised Mormon in the city of Springville, Utah.

Following high school, he was accepted into Brigham Young University, but one year into his education,

he applied to be a missionary, after which he spent two years in New Jersey.

After returning to BYU, Chad graduated with a bachelor's in journalism and then went on to work

as a copy editor for the Ogden-based publication, The Standard Examiner.

In 1990, a 22-year-old Chad would marry a girl named Tammy Douglas,

and the couple welcomed their first child into the world shortly afterwards.

Outwardly, Chad was living the life of a clean-cut Mormon 20-something, but beneath the surface,

he began to entertain some deeply unsettling thoughts and hobbies.

For instance, while he was still a student at BYU, Chad developed an interest in cemeteries.

It started as a part-time job, digging graves in the evenings after his studies were completed. But after a while, it seems Chad started to enjoy the act

of digging fresh graves among those already occupied. Even after getting his copy editor's job over at the standard examiner,

Chad maintained a second full-time appointment as the Sexton of Springville Cemetery. He eventually

resigned from his position in the late 90s, but only after becoming fixated on a new and very

different kind of hobby.

In 2001, Chad published One Foot in the Grave, a non-fiction book that chronicled his

experiences working in cemeteries. Thanks to a few poignant tracks regarding mourning

and mortality, Chad's first serious offering was fairly well received. But then for his

second outing, Chad took a radically different direction. He began to write what might be referred to as

Mormon End Times fiction, stories that depicted apocalyptic situations and dystopian futures.

They often featured thinly veiled versions of his friends and family as protagonists, with recurring themes

centering around supernatural voices, giving instructions to his characters.

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