Jeff Strand

Jeff Strand (born December 14, 1970) is an American writer, known for his works of comedy horror.

He has written novels, short stories, screenplays and comedy sketches. In addition to his adult-oriented horror works, Strand also writes young adult fiction. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award five times, winning the award for the first time in the Best Long Fiction category for his novella Twentieth Anniversary Screening (2021).

Biography
Strand was born in Baltimore, Maryland but moved to Fairbanks, Alaska at a young age. Prior to his freshman year of high school, he moved to Kent, Ohio, and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1998. He then went on to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he majored in creative writing. After graduating college, he briefly returned to Alaska before moving back to Ohio and eventually moving to Tucson, Arizona. He had his first short story sale in 1996, selling a story titled "The Private Diary of Leonard Parr" to Twisted Magazine, where it was featured in its first and only issue.

After a string of books in other styles, Strand published Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), the first novel in the horror-comedy style for which he would later become known, in 2000 through the publisher Hard Shell Word Factory. He received his first nomination for the Bram Stoker Award in 2006 in the Best Novel category for his novel Pressure. In 2018 his novelette "The Tipping Point" from his short story collection Everything Has Teeth won a Splatterpunk Award in the Best Short Story category.

Style
Jeff Strand is primarily known for his works of horror-comedy, which have earned him the nickname "The Clown Prince of Horror". However, he also writes thrillers and young adult fiction. His writing is often defined by its dark humor and sparse prose style. Strand has named such authors as Douglas Adams, Richard Laymon, Dave Barry and Jack Ketchum as influences on his writing.

Novels

 * Veiled
 * Demonic
 * Autumn Bleeds into Winter
 * Cemetery Closing (Everything Must Go)
 * The Odds
 * Allison
 * Wolf Hunt 2
 * Clowns vs. Spiders
 * Ferocious
 * Cyclops Road
 * Stranger Things Have Happened
 * Blister
 * The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever
 * Wolf Hunt 2
 * Kumquat
 * I Have A Bad Feeling About This
 * A Bad Day for Voodoo
 * Faint of Heart
 * Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to “Shirley”)
 * Fangboy
 * Wolf Hunt
 * Draculas
 * Dweller (2010)
 * Pressure
 * Benjamin’s Parasite
 * The Severed Nose
 * Disposal
 * The Haunted Forest Tour
 * The Sinister Mr. Corpse
 * Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary)
 * Single White Psychopath Seeks Same
 * Casket for Sale (Only Used Once)
 * Mandibles
 * How to Rescue a Dead Princess
 * Out of Whack
 * Elrod McBugle on the Loose
 * My Pretties

Novellas

 * An Apocalypse of Our Own
 * Kutter
 * Facial
 * Stalking You Now
 * Twentieth Anniversary Screening

Collections

 * Freaky Briefs
 * Candy Coated Madness
 * Everything Has Teeth
 * Dead Clown Barbecue
 * Dead Clown Barbecue: Expansion Pack
 * Gleefully Macabre Tales

Non-Fiction


 * The Writing Life: Reflections, Recollections, and a Lot of Cursing