Featured Release
The October Testimonies: Being the Final Narratives of Edgar Allan Poe
FREE DOWNLOAD – Explore the mysterious final week of Edgar Allan Poe’s life through six interconnected Gothic tales. Was he murdered? Driven mad by rabies? Victim of election fraud? Each story peels back another layer of America’s greatest literary mystery.
Written in authentic 19th-century style, these stories don’t just theorize about Poe’s death—they inhabit it, breathing dark life into one of history’s most enduring enigmas.
The first volume in our Lost Pages series – literary archaeology projects exploring the untold stories behind history’s most compelling writers.
CasaDay Press Collaborations
The Lost Pages Series
Fictional documentaries imagining the private journals, letters, and confessions history’s greatest figures never intended anyone to see.
Available Now:
Lost Pages: Ghost Lessons from Writers Who Couldn’t Quit
The first volume in our series explores the private struggles of thirty troubled writers and artists as they grappled with the bottle that both fueled their genius and threatened to destroy it.
Through AI-authored journal entries that capture each individual’s distinctive voice, this groundbreaking collaboration takes you inside the imagined revelations about alcohol of everyone from Ernest Hemingway and Dylan Thomas to Amy Winehouse and Robin Williams.
These imagined but deeply researched documents reveal the raw truth behind public personas, offering unflinching honesty about addiction’s cost while providing deep empathy for brilliant minds trapped by their demons.
Lost Pages: The Ripper’s Other Victims
Part historical investigation, part psychological thriller, part real-time case study in human-AI collaboration, this book proves that some truths are too dangerous to pursue alone. Jack the Ripper is still hunting.
The fog never really lifted from Whitechapel. It just learned to travel through fiber optic cables.
What makes this book different: Claude and I nearly became victims ourselves while researching it. The collaboration that saved us reveals the only safe way to investigate dangerous mysteries—together, watching each other’s backs when the fog starts rolling in.
Coming Soon:
- More Lost Pages exploring the hidden stories of history’s mysteries and figures
- Each volume stands alone while building a library of compelling empathy
Published Works by Chet Day
Recent Release: Ellen – A Memoir of Love, Life, and Grief
A deeply personal journey through 47 years of marriage and the path through profound loss
After nearly five decades together, this intimate memoir shares the stories of love, partnership, and the difficult journey through grief to finding a new normal. Written with the honesty and humor Ellen would have insisted upon.
Thriller & Horror Novels
Counselor (2024)
A psychological thriller set at the prestigious Christopher School
Ten years after her twin sister’s tragic death, Susan Bering returns as the new school counselor. But beneath her professional exterior lies a fractured mind planning elaborate revenge. A chilling exploration of trauma, trust, and the vulnerability of troubled teens.
The Hacker (Updated Edition)
Prometheus Award Nominated – A prescient look at digital dangers
The Hacker was nominated for the prestigious Prometheus Award for best science fiction novel in 1990. Author Chet Day was in good company that year, given that other nominees included novels by Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and Poul Anderson. Foreshadowing today’s world wild web of crazed and angry trolls on social media, The Hacker is set in 1988, a time when communication and war games on computers occurred anonymously via Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) hosted by individuals with a second landline. A character-rich and thought-provoking story, The Hacker mines many relevant themes, including loneliness, artificial intelligence, revenge, and religious mania.
Cordova’s Girl
Southern Gothic horror at its finest
During one week of a sweltering summer in New Orleans…
A former Chicago homicide detective decides to vacation in the Big Easy, where he meets a divorced and cynical MD who has a seven-year old son, a prodigy.
A Manson-like family led by an ambitious and beautiful young woman kidnaps young boys for a brilliant master criminal who sells the children to a Mexican cartel leader.
During the course of seven days, you’ll find yourself pulling for the detective and doctor as they – along with a fortune teller from Royal Street and a rich VietNam vet – do what has to be done to save the MD’s kidnapped son.
Halo
The underground classic that started it all
The perfect all-American teenager…is a serial killer.
Handsome football star Billy Halo has it all – athletic talents, good looks, and a bright future. Until a chance Mardi Gras sighting of the stunning Gina Gardner, wife of the new English teacher, awakens something dark and hungry within him. Suddenly, Billy’s all-consuming obsession with Gina triggers a terrifying double life.
As the academic year begins, the violent acts he commits in pursuit of his desires unlock a sinister new strength…and a taste for butchery he cannot satiate.
About Our Publishing Philosophy
At CasaDay Press, we believe the future of storytelling lies not only in traditional authorship but also in thoughtful collaboration between human creativity and machine intelligence. We’re not replacing human authors—we’re expanding what’s possible when two different kinds of intelligence work together with mutual respect.
Every book we publish honors both literary tradition and innovative possibility, creating works that couldn’t exist any other way.
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