Jeff Strand is an acclaimed American horror novelist, known for his unique blend of horror and comedy in his works. Strand was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his formative years in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he developed a love for cartooning and video games. As he grew older, his interests expanded to include writing movies, a passion that would eventually lead him to become a successful author.
Strand is perhaps best known for his award-winning horror novels, including the Andrew Mayhem Thriller series. He has won the Bram Stoker Award four times, a testament to his mastery of the horror genre. In addition to his horror novels, Strand has also written young adult novels that are characterized by their goofy comedy. Several of his books are in development as motion pictures, although he is not allowed to reveal many details about these projects.
Despite his success in the horror genre, Strand's works are not limited to horror alone. He writes in a variety of genres, including drama, thriller, comedy, and even fairy tales. His writing style is characterized by its humor, which is often infused into even the most terrifying of scenes. Strand is currently based in Tampa, Florida, where he continues to write and publish his unique and entertaining novels.
Andrew Mayhem Books
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Title
Year
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1
Graverobbers Wanted
2000
2
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same
2001
3
Casket for Sale
2004
4
Suckers
2011
5
Lost Homicidal Maniac
2020
6
Cemetery Closing
2020
Andrew Mayhem/Harry McGlade Books (with J.A. Konrath)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Suckers
2011
Wolf Hunt Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Wolf Hunt
1997
2
Wolf Hunt 2
2014
3
Wolf Hunt 3
2020
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
How to Rescue a Dead Princess
2000
2
Mandibles
2002
3
Out of Whack
2004
4
Elrod McBugle on the Loose
2007
5
Disposal
2007
6
The Haunted Forest Tour
2007
7
Benjamin's Parasite
2009
8
Dweller
2010
9
Draculas
2010
10
The Sinister Mr. Corpse
2011
11
Fangboy
2011
12
A Bad Day For Voodoo
2012
13
I Have a Bad Feeling about This
2013
14
Kumquat
2014
15
The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever
2016
16
Blister
2016
17
Cyclops Road
2016
18
The Devil's Guests
2017
19
Everything Has Teeth
2017
20
Stranger Things Have Happened
2017
21
Sick House
2018
22
How You Ruined My Life
2018
23
Bring Her Back
2018
24
Bang Up
2018
25
Ferocious
2019
26
My Pretties
2019
27
Clowns Vs. Spiders
2019
28
Allison
2020
29
The Odds
2020
30
Autumn Bleeds Into Winter
2020
31
Demonic
2023
32
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Novelization
2023
33
Veiled
2023
Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Specimen 313
2011
2
Faint of Heart
2012
3
Kutter
2013
4
Stalking You Now
2013
5
Facial
2014
6
An Apocalypse of Our Own
2017
7
Cold Dead Hands
2018
8
Twentieth Anniversary Screening
2022
Collections
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Title
Year
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1
Gleefully Macabre Tales
2008
2
Dead Clown Barbecue
2012
3
Dead Clown Barbecue: Expansion Pack
2014
4
Cemetery Dance Select
2015
5
Candy Coated Madness
2020
6
Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities
2022
Pressure Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Pressure
2005
2
Deathless
2021
Best New Zombie Tales Books (with Jonathan Maberry, with Bev Vincent, with David Niall Wilson, with Joe McKinney, with Ray Garton, with Tim Lebbon, with Tim Waggoner, with Steven A. Roman, with Mort Castle, with Harry Shannon, with John Everson, with Nancy Kilpatrick, with Simon Wood, with Kealan Patrick Burke, with Gary McMahon, with Nate Southard, with Cody Goodfellow, with Rio Youers, with James Newman, with Paul Kane, with Nate Kenyon, with Jeremy C. Shipp, with Robert Swartwood, with Kim Paffenroth, with James Roy Daley, with Jessica Brown, with Derek Gunn, with Narrell M. Harris)
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Title
Year
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1
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 1
2010
2
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 2
2010
3
Best New Zombie Tales Vol.3
2011
4
Best New Zombie Tales Trilogy
2012
Jeff Strand Anthologies
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
DeathGrip: Exit Laughing
2006
2
Bits of the Dead
2008
3
Horror Library, Volume 3
2008
4
Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror
2009
5
The Mad and the Macabre
2010
6
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 1
2010
7
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 2
2010
8
Best New Zombie Tales Vol.3
2011
9
Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
2011
10
Waiting For October
2011
11
Best New Zombie Tales Trilogy
2012
12
Horror for Good
2012
13
A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine
2012
14
Chiral Mad
2012
15
Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror
2013
16
High Stakes: A Vampire Anthology
2013
17
Mister October, Volume II
2013
18
Wicked Seasons: The Journal of New England Horror Writers, Volume II
2013
19
Horror Library, Volume 5
2013
20
Piercing the Darkness
2014
21
Dead Harvest
2014
22
Anything but Zombies
2015
23
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
2015
24
Christmas Horror Volume 1
2015
25
The Gruesome Tensome: A Short Story Tribute to the Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis
2016
26
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1
2016
27
Splatterpunk's Not Dead
2016
28
Aghast
2016
29
Collected Easter Horror Shorts
2017
30
Dark Places, Evil Faces
2017
31
Christmas Horror Vol. 2
2018
32
A Plague of Shadows
2018
33
Fantastic Tales of Terror
2018
34
Halloween Haunts Volume 1
2018
35
And Hell Followed
2019
36
In Darkness, Delight
2019
37
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
2019
38
Leaders of the Pack
2020
39
Night Frights Issue #1
2020
40
Brewtality: Extreme Horror Anthology
2020
41
Christmas Horror Volume 3
2020
42
Halloween Nights
2021
43
An Unholy Thirst
2021
44
Attack From the '80s
2021
45
Baker's Dozen
2021
46
Monsters Monsters Monsters Monsters
2021
47
Battered, Broken Bodies
2022
48
Monstorm
2023
49
Razor Blade in the Fun-Size Candy
2023
50
Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West