Jeff Strand

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Andrew Mayhem Thriller

1 - Graverobbers Wanted: No Experience Necessary (Sep-2003)
2 - Single White Psychopath Seeks Same (Oct-2003)
3 - Casket For Sale: Only Used Once (Nov-2004)
4 - Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to "Shirley") (Jan-2012)
5 - Cemetery Closing (Everything Must Go) (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • How to Rescue a Dead Princess

    From the creative genius who would have brought you Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, and a less-boring Moby Dick (if he'd been born on time) comes this outrageous comic fantasy. It's a tale filled with so much adventure, so much excitement, so much vocabu...

  • Mandibles

  • Graverobbers Wanted: No Experience Necessary

    An Andrew Mayhem Thriller - 1

    AN ANDREW MAYHEM THRILLER If you're desperate for money, searching for a little adventure, and aren't the most responsible person in the world, you can end up doing some outrageous things. Which is how Andrew Mayhem, an extremely married father of tw...

  • Single White Psychopath Seeks Same

    An Andrew Mayhem Thriller - 2

    AN ANDREW MAYHEM THRILLER "Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it's going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of tooth-deprived lunatics torment you with a chainsaw. So as I strugg...

  • Out of Whack

    From the author of How to Rescue a Dead Princess comes Out of Whack, an outrageous comedy about friendship, love, following your dreams, and other really scary stuff. Seth Trexler has two goals in life: to find success with his off-the-wall sketch co...

  • Casket For Sale: Only Used Once

    An Andrew Mayhem Thriller - 3

    In Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), he took a job digging up a shallow grave. It turned out badly. In Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, he took a job as a bodyguard at a séance. It turned out worse. But now, meet the new, improved An...

  • Pressure

    Alex is unwittingly drawn into a waking nightmare when he discovers that his best friend Darren, whom he met in boarding school, is murderously insane and wants Alex to join him on a blood-soaked rampage--and won't take no for an answer. Original....

  • Elrod Mcbugle on the Loose

    A comedy for kids...and adults who were warped as kids! The students at Greenwater Junior High have said they'll never forget this year, and Elrod McBugle is the reason. He's not a bad person. He doesn't TRY to get in trouble, cause mayhem, and occas...

  • The Bell...FROM HELL!!!

    in Blood Lite

    BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard env...



  • Benjamin's Parasite

    At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites. This is the story of just one. A really, really nasty one. Benjamin Wilson was having a lousy month even before the stomach pains began. He was about to turn forty. One of his studen...

  • Dweller

    Toby was just a boy the first time he saw the creature in the woods. His parents convinced the terrified child it was only his imagination. The next time Toby saw the creature he was a lonely, unhappy teenager without friends. But the creature would ...

  • Wolf Hunt

    Meet George and Lou, thugs for hire. The kind of intimidating-yet-friendly guys who will break your thumbs, but be nice about it. Their latest assignment is to drive across Florida to deliver some precious cargo to a crime lord. The cargo: a man in a...

  • The Sinister Mr. Corpse

    "Will have even the biggest stiffs laughing all the way to the grave." -- Rue MorgueZombies…Sometimes they rise from the grave, hungering for human flesh…Sometimes they’re created by a mad scientist intent on forming an unstoppable army of the ...

  • Fangboy

    Nathan Pepper seemed like an ordinary baby...except for a mouth full of scary sharp teeth. Because his life began with his grandmother strongly recommending that he be destroyed as soon as possible, it's safe to say that Nathan was not destined for a...

  • Specimen 313

    A free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER’S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today’s hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster’s point of view. SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-ea...

  • Waiting For October

    NOT YOUR AVERAGE BOOK OF CHILLERSTwelve tales guaranteed to amuse, disturb and make you squirm. From body parts gone missing to body parts inexplicably arriving, from parasitic children to dead grammas, get ready for some wild stories from four very ...

  • Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to "Shirley")

    An Andrew Mayhem Thriller - 4

    Andrew Mayhem is back! In this dark and hilarious new adventure, Andrew has started up a private investigation business with his best friend Roger (slogan: "We Solve Weird Problems"). Since his options in life will become somewhat more limited after ...

  • Bad Day for Voodoo

    When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome." Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone'...

  • Dead Clown Barbecue

    From the author of Pressure, Dweller, and Wolf Hunt comes a new 90,000-word short story collection featuring twenty-nine stories and original cover artwork by Alex McVey. The stories within this collection range from hilarious to downright disturbing...



  • Gleefully Macabre Tales

    Cemetery Dance Magazine says that "No author working today comes close to Jeff Strand's perfect mixture of comedy and terror." Gleefully Macabre Tales compiles 33 of his most twisted blends of cringe-worthy horror and ghoulish humor, with a couple of...

  • I Have a Bad Feeling about This

    Wilderness Survival Tip #1 Drinking your own sweat will not save your life. Somebody might have told you that, but they were trying to find out if you'd really do it. Henry Lambert would rather play video games than spend time in the great outdoo...

  • Kumquat

    "Strand creates two endearing characters and infuses their relationship with an unexpected depth, humanity and tenderness, while managing to keep it grounded in reality with wicked humor." -- Examiner.com 

    From the "wickedly funny" Jeff Str...

  • Wolf Hunt 2

    George and Lou used to be thugs for hire. Now they're living in a shack in Costa Rica, hiding from the crime lord who wants them dead. Their last job, to deliver him a werewolf in a cage, went...badly. But they can't hide out forever, and when they'...

  • The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever

    After producing three horror movies that went mostly ignored on YouTube, Justin and his filmmaking buddies decide it's time they create something noteworthy, something epic. They're going to film the Greatest Zombie Movie Ever. They may not have mone...

  • Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1

    For a limited time through August 1, 2016: 12.5% off the cover price of $15.95

    "Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence-including tortu...

  • Blister

    They call her Blister. She's a hideously disfigured twenty-three-year-old woman, living in a shed next to her father's house, hidden away from the world. Jason Tray is a successful cartoonist, banished to his agent's lakeside cabin for a few days of ...

  • Cyclops Road

    Evan Portin is at a sad, scary place in his life. While taking a long walk to compose himself and figure out where to go from here, he encounters a young woman being mugged in a park.

    When he tries to intervene, he discovers that she doesn't...

  • Stranger Things Have Happened

    You can't always believe what you see in this hilarious coming of age novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and I Have a Bad Feeling about This Harry Houdini. Penn and Teller. David Copperfield. Marcus Millian the Third. Okay,...

  • The Haunted Forest Tour

    Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature’s most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous...



  • Unleashed

    Are you tired of the same old zombie stories? In our second volume, Stitched Smile Publications presents more of your favorite authors - and some debuting authors! Each story takes you through the author's point of view through each ultimate battle f...

  • Sick House

    It's a home invasion from beyond the grave in this novel of unrelenting terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE, DWELLER, and WOLF HUNT.

    It doesn't seem like the perfect house, but screw it, it's good enough to rent fo...

  • Everything Has Teeth

    A city where people are turning gleefully insane. Inescapable blood-sucking bugs. A serial killer who may have discovered proof of alien life. A kinky proposal to "even out" an instance of infidelity. A man whose fingernails are growing at an out ...

  • How You Ruined My Life

    Rod's life doesn't suck. If you ask him, it's pretty awesome. He may not be popular, but he and his best friends play in a band that has a standing gig. Yeah, it's Monday night and they don't get paid, but they can turn the volume up as loud as they ...

  • Bring Her Back

    Frank knows that he's creepy. There's nothing he can do about it. His creepiness--along with the fact that his father once killed eleven people in an office shooting -- has kept him from ever having a girlfriend. 

    When he finally works up t...

  • A Sharp Stick in the Eye (and other funny stories)

    Do funerals make you chuckle? Is Hannibal Lecter a really funny guy? Do friends and family keep on telling you "That’s nothing to laugh at"? Is the dark side of humor your thing? Step right up and grab fourteen tales of the darkly humorous, collect...

  • A Plague of Shadows

    SPINE-CHILLING GHOST STORIES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHTIt's been said that there are no haunted places, only haunted people. That's who you'll find here, the haunted ones. A maintenance technician in remote Alaska, an English thief, a young couple on a ...

  • And Hell Followed

    Seventeen authors re-imagine the biblical apocalypse and all the hell that follows in sixteen horrifying tales. What if the prophecies of Revelation hit today? What sort of craziness and evil would ensue? With this list of excellent authors contribut...

  • Ferocious

    From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR and WOLF HUNT comes another action-packed over-the-top creature feature!Rusty Moss has raised his niece Mia since she was a baby. Now that she's almost eighteen, he's worried that...

  • My Pretties

    A novel of terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE. A serial kidnapper is preying upon women. He abducts them, then locks them in one of the cages dangling from the ceiling in a soundproofed basement. There, he sits quietly and...



  • Creatures of the Night

    Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction. Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.

    Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.

    In Darkn...

  • Wolf Hunt 3

    Though still mourning his recent loss, George Orton is surprisingly content. He's living in a secure compound where teenaged werewolf Ally is being trained to control her animalistic tendencies, and mad science experiment Eugene has regained most of ...

  • Allison

    Allison can break your bones with her mind, and she can't control her power.Now forty-five years old, she's spent her life trying to stay away from other people. But a random encounter with a couple on the street leaves her believing that she may hav...

  • The Odds

    After a disastrous evening playing slot machines, Ethan Caustin wonders how he's going to explain his massive loss to his wife and kids. As he tries to find his way out of the casino, sick to his stomach and filled with self-loathing, he's approached...

  • Cemetery Closing (Everything Must Go)

    An Andrew Mayhem Thriller - 5

    The fifth book in the wildly popular series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem!As a stay-at-home dad taking care of triplets, Andrew Mayhem's days of getting into wild adventures are over. His life is measured in diaper changes. Sleep ha...

  • Autumn Bleeds Into Winter

    1979. Somebody has been abducting children in Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the victims was fourteen-year-old Curtis Black's best friend Todd. Curtis saw it happen. He knows exactly who did it. But he can't prove that it was his neighbor Gerald Martin. T...

  • Candy Coated Madness

    Horror/comedy master Jeff Strand returns with a collection of twenty-six gleefully macabre tales!A cheerful snack mascot who snaps under the pressure. The nightmarish effects of the most depressing holiday song of all time. A virtual reality environm...

  • Twentieth Anniversary Screening

  • Rock & Roll Nightmares: Along Comes Scary: '60s Edition Short Stories

    ALONG COMES SCARY Tune in, turn on, and drop in to the rock & roll rabbit hole! Along Comes Scary is set in an alternate spooky '60s where vampires play screaming guitars, hellbound hotrodders start a new trend on AM radio, and there are groupies who...

  • Baker's Dozen

    Uncomfortably Dark Presents...The Baker's Dozen!Delicious Dark Delights for your horror consumption!Come indulge in the dark and disturbing with 13 tantalizing tales of terror written by an incredible lineup of independent horror authors. With storie...



  • Monsters Monsters Monsters Monsters

    HellBound Books pays loving homage to the spine-tingling 70's kids' anthology Monsters, Monsters, Monsters, without which they would not be around today to delight horror fans with these 17 deliciously gruesome tales. Dig into this slew of unique, t...

  • Freaky Briefs

    From the madman who brought you Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, Everything Has Teeth, and Candy Coated Madness comes Jeff Strand's latest and most twisted collection: Freaky Briefs. This time, all of the stories are flash fiction-ve...

  • Demonic

    From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of PRESSURE and AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, comes a new novel of unrelenting terror.Corey is falling in love with his co-worker Quinn. This is a problem. Not only because Quinn is married, but because her husb...

  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Novelization

    UFOs! Bigfoot! Communists! The government has swiftly dealt with many a crisis... But can it survive the diabolical ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES? After a series of bizarre and increasingly horrific attacks from pulpy, red, seeded fruit, Mason Dixon ...

  • FORBIDDEN FUTURES 7

  • Hot Iron and Cold Blood

    Each short story is unique, carefully crafted, and memorable. A fun read from cover to cover. – MIDWEST BOOK REVIEWDesperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain't your typical westerns... Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western ...

  • It Watches in the Dark

    “She glanced over her shoulder. Had the scarecrow moved? It stood there, smile stitched on its face, but now it felt like a smirk.”Prepare to be scared silly in this creepy middle-grade novel! Twins seek medical help in a remote village after the...

  • Nightmare in the Backyard

    When the scratching starts on the tent, a backyard camping trip turns terrifying for three friends. Prepare to be scared silly in this creepy middle-grade novel for fans of R.L. Stine, Dan Poblocki, and Mary Downing Hahn.Chloe, Avery, and Madison can...

  • Finders Keepers

    A scavenger hunt takes a sinister turn in the third novel in the Eek! series, tales to scare you silly!The competition just got scary.In the small town of Farlow, mysterious advertisements appear for a summer scavenger hunt. Twelve-year-old Maggie an...

  • Clowns Vs. Spiders

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Jaunty the Clown just wants to entertain families with lighthearted slapstick antics, but people think of clowns as terrifying, nightmarish creatures who hide in closets or under beds. When Jaunty, along with his fellow performers Guffaw, Wagon, Regi...

  • Leaders of the Pack

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Since the dawn of time, across almost every culture, there have been legends of shapeshifters. Men who turn into beasts and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path.Of the shapeshifter tales, none invokes as much terror as the legend o...

Award-Winning Books by Jeff Strand

Twentieth Anniversary Screening
2021 Bram Stoker Award -- Long Fiction


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Jeff Strand has published 60 books.

The next book by Jeff Strand, Finders Keepers, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Jeff Strand, How to Rescue a Dead Princess, was published in August 2000.

Yes. Jeff Strand has 1 series.
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