Jeff Strand


Jeff Strand 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.

Biography

Strand was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, at six months of age. Prior to his freshman year of high school, he moved to Kent, Ohio, and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1989. He 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. His next move was to Tucson, Arizona. Strand moved to Tampa, Florida in 1996, and worked for MetLife as a Remittance Service Analyst for almost twenty years before quitting his day job to write full-time in 2015. He lived briefly in Atlanta, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, before moving to Duluth, Minnesota.
He had his first short story sale in 1996, selling "The Private Diary of Leonard Parr" to Twisted Magazine, where it was featured in the first and only issue.
In 2000, Strand published Graverobbers Wanted, through Hard Shell Word Factory. It was the first novel in the horror-comedy style for which he would later become known.
In 2006, his novel Pressure was the first of his books to be nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, in the Best Novel category. 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. In 2022, "Next Best Baker," included in Baker's Dozen from Uncomfortably Dark, won a Splatterpunk Award in the Best Short Story Category.
He emceed the Bram Stoker Awards ten times. Dweller was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2010.
As a screenwriter, Strand is an active member of the Writers Guild of America.

Style

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

Personal life

Strand currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with his girlfriend, horror author Bridgett Nelson.

Novels

How to Rescue a Dead Princess Graverobbers Wanted Elrod McBugle on the Loose Single White Psychopath Seeks Same Out of Whack Mandibles Casket for Sale Pressure The Haunted Forest Tour The Sinister Mr. Corpse Benjamin’s Parasite Dweller Draculas Fangboy Lost Homicidal Maniac Wolf Hunt A Bad Day for Voodoo I Have A Bad Feeling About This Kumquat Wolf Hunt 2 Blister Cyclops Road The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever Stranger Things Have Happened Bang Up Bring Her Back How You Ruined My Life Sick House Clowns vs. Spiders Ferocious My Pretties Wolf Hunt 3 Allison Autumn Bleeds into Winter Cemetery Closing The Odds Deathless Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Novelization Demonic Veiled Creep Out It Watches in the Dark Nightmare in the Backyard Bloodsucker County Finders Keepers
  • ''Your Body Will Never Be Found''

Novellas

Disposal Suckers Kutter The Faint of Heart Stalking You Now Facial An Apocalypse of Our Own Cold Dead Hands
  • ''Twentieth Anniversary Screening''

Collections

Gleefully Macabre Tales Dead Clown Barbecue Dead Clown Barbecue: Expansion Pack Everything Has Teeth Five Novellas Candy Coated Madness Freaky Briefs
  • ''Snuggling the Grotesque''

Non-Fiction

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

Chapbooks

Socially Awkward Moments With An Aspiring Lunatic Two Twisted Nuts: A Chapbook of Testicular Terror Funny Stories of Scary Sex The Severed Nose
  • ''Bad Bratwurst''