New Short Story Collection Soon!

October 4, 2020 — jeffstrand

I have this spreadsheet called “Collection Four” where I log all of my post-Everything Has Teeth short stories. (There’s a separate section for the flash fiction that appears in my newsletter; those will eventually be compiled into their own book.)

I knew I had more than enough material for a fourth book, but when you sell a story there’s almost always an exclusive contractual period where it can only appear in that publication. Brewtality was just published, so I obviously can’t go around trying to reprint “Pink Passion.” My story “Devil Powered Death Train of Doom” hasn’t even been published for the first time yet.

But, upon pulling up some contracts, I was surprised to discover that I’ve got the rights back to enough stories to fill a full-length book!

I still need a title, an introduction, story notes, and as with Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, and Everything Has Teeth, I’ll write at least a couple of brand-new stories, too. But sometime before Halloween, look for Currently Untitled Short Story Collection by Jeff Strand.

I’ll share the tentative table of contents tomorrow.

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SHORT WORKS

March 18, 2019 — jeffstrand

LATEST PUBLICATIONS:

“Snippy.” From Dead Detectives Society. 

“The Moonshining.” From Y’All Ain’t Right. 

“Fix Her.” From To Hell and Back.

“A Most Unpleasant Task.” From The Perfectly Fine Neighborhood.

“Mac & Millie” (collaboration with Bridgett Nelson). From Splatterpunk’s Basement of Horror. 

“Rope & Limb.” From Hot Iron & Cold Blood. 

“Avert Thine Eyes.” From The Never Dead.

“Torture Porn For Prudes.” From Razor Blade in the Fun-Size Candy.

“Blowing Off Steam.” From A Woman Unbecoming.

“Ghosts of Candies Past.” From Literally Dead. 

“Dump Truck.” From the anthology Monsters, Monsters, Monsters, Monsters. 

“Next Best Baker.” From Baker’s Dozen. (I also did the foreword.)

“Cherry Tree.” From Battered, Broken Bodies. 

“Ghetto Blaster.” From Attack From The ’80s. 

“Turn Me.” From An Unholy Thirst.

“My Favorite Halloween Memory.” From Halloween Nights: Tales of Autumn Fright.  

“Mouthy.” From The Southwest Review. 

“The Body Hidin’ Spot.” From Georgia Gothic. 

“Devil-Powered Death Train of Doom.” From Fright Train. 

“Do You Believe In Tragic?” from Rock & Roll Nightmares: Along Comes Scary. 

OTHER UNCOLLECTED STORIES:

“Pink Passion” in Brewtality. When a tough stranger goes into a rough bar and orders a girly drink, things get interesting.

“Lost Gator” in Tales of the Lost.It sure sucks when you lose a giant alligator, huh? I hope the dude in this story finds his.

“All I Want For Christmas Is Your Two Front Teeth” in Christmas Horror, Volume 3. A demented holiday desire goes horribly awry.

“The Things Whittier Couldn’t Do” in Wittier Than Thou. John Greenleaf Whittier might have been a fine poet, but you wouldn’t want to rely on him for medical attention.

“Clickers vs. Mandibles: The Tale of an Unwritten Saga” in Clickers Forever. Half non-fiction, half short-story. This tells of the Clickers Vs. Mandibles novel that I never wrote with J.F. Gonzalez.
 
“Shock Collar” in Collected Horror Drabbles. A short story of exactly 100 words, written for an anthology of all stories of exactly 100 words.
 
“Coping Mechanism” in Into Painfreak. One of my only efforts at writing in somebody else’s world (the world of Gerard Houarner’s Painfreak).
 
“Hologram Skull Cover” in Mister October, Volume Two. This story was written as a tribute to Rick Hautala and his bestselling novel Night Stone, which had one of those hologram skull covers that were so beloved in ’80s horror.

COLLECTIONS:

Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities

  • The Douchebag Who Reneged on the Death Pact
  • Fresh Fish
  • Clicking the Heart
  • The Wrong Dentist
  • The Skull Within
  • CraniumVision
  • Headspin
  • Oh No! Don’t Eat Me! (A Chocolate Bunny Tale)
  • Thrill Ride
  • The First Cannibals
  • What’s in the Box?
  • Jock Magnum, Manatee Hunter
  • Bernie
  • Beaks
  • The Guy Who Didn’t Want to Murder Anybody With a Hammer
  • Bummer Tarot Reading
  • Pull My Finger
  • Crazy’s Ralph’s Used Car Emporium
  • Home With a Future
  • The Tell Tale Heart II: Aftermath
  • A Story I’m Writing While Being Devoured by a Lion
  • Make a Wish
  • Long Sleeves
  • Fast Zombies Vs. Slow Zombies
  • Scrape and Scoop
  • How’s My Driving?
  • Granny’s Got an Ice Pick
  • A Story for the Dude on the Plane Who Keeps Looking at My Laptop Screen
  • And There Was a Metal Hook
  • Box of Chocolates
  • The Frostbite Movie
  • Breakthrough
  • Ten Little Babies
  • Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
  • The Night I Realized Halfway To The Pavement Below That I Was Not, In Fact, Superman
  • Helen Gets Permanently Traumatized
  • A Real Haunting
  • Vegan Training
  • Guillotine
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Murders at Camp Crystal Lake
  • Chick
  • Quicksand
  • It’s Drabble Time!
  • The Most Entertaining Man in the Elevator
  • Wrongful Death Payday
  • Jigsaw Puzzle
  • The Satisfying Crunch of Bones Beneath My Feet
  • Laundry Day
  • All The Cheese In The World
  • Not Enough Coins
  • Impressionable
  • Below Deck
  • The Cat Who Was Super Smart For A Cat But Pretty Dumb By Human Standards
  • The Blind Men And The Elephant: A Parable
  • Bradley Goes Crunch
  • Dusted
  • Intervention
  • Telemedicine
  • The Soupville Stabber Practices Social Distancing
  • Bunny Ears
  • The Tragic Tale of Slappy McWankerville
  • Abner Wederman, Ribald Ostrich
  • Last One In
  • Too Meta 2 Live
  • Steps
  • Santa Claus Kills 2020
  • Yak Attack
  • Job Reference
  • The Man Without Nails
  • Comeback
  • The Last Egg
  • Six Cents a Word
  • Encore
  • Making the Most of It
  • After
  • Corky & Snorky
  • What’s on Second?

Candy Coated Madness

  • Virtual Reality Kill Zone
  • Good Deeds
  • Captain Pistachio’s Charming Rampage
  • The Last Thing You Want To Be
  • Lab Experiment Turf War
  • No Tomato
  • Clyde the Necrophile
  • Don’t Make Fun of the Haunted House
  • Ivan’s Night Out
  • Pointy Canes
  • Giant Mutant Cockroaches in the Old West Vs. Zombies
  • Outpouring
  • Smashing Jacks
  • Faerie
  • Green Suits
  • The Fraud
  • Hostile
  • The Great Stone Face Vs. The Gargoyles
  • Parody
  • Awakening
  • Dismemberment Fraud
  • Beware! The! Beverage!
  • Rotten Eggs
  • Gave Up The Ghost
  • December Birthday
  • My Werewolf Neighbor

Everything Has Teeth

  • The Tipping Point
  • Nails
  • Stumps
  • John Henry, The Steel Drivin’ Man
  • Fair Trade
  • Chiggers
  • Cry
  • The Fierce Stabbing and Subsequent Post-Death Vengeance of Scooter Brown
  • It’s Bath Time!
  • Alien Face
  • Apocalypse of the Yard Gnome
  • Dead Bigfoot on the Lawn
  • Gross-Out: The Return
  • Deformed Son
  • The Origin of Slashy
  • Secret Message (Decoded)
  • The Sentient Cherry Cola That Tried to Destroy the World
  • The Eggman Falleth
  • The Story of My First Kiss
  • Dad (A True Story)
  • Bad Bratwurst
  • The Loneliest Jackalope *
  • Inside the Boxes *
  • The Car *
  • Scrumptious Bone Bread *
  • A Flawed Fantasy *
  • A Bit of Christmas Mayhem *
  • The Car *

(The stories marked with * appear only in the paperback edition. The others appeared in the digital-only Dead Clown Barbecue Expansion Pack.)

Dead Clown Barbecue

  • Pett Semmuteary
  • Comeuppance
  • The Apocalypse Ain’t So Bad
  • The Bell…FROM HELL!!!
  • Work/Life Balance
  • Stop Stabbing Me
  • Eight-Legged Vengeance
  • The Drop
  • Here’s What Happened…
  • Pregnancy Test
  • Mr. Twitcher’s Miracle Baby-Chopping Machine
  • The Carver
  • Push the Button
  • Specimen 313
  • My Knife Collection
  • Drain Bamage
  • Gramma’s Corpse
  • Burden
  • Rough Draft
  • Fangboy and the Troll
  • Dead in the Water
  • Immunity
  • The Big Bite
  • We Believe
  • Poor Career Choice
  • True Hero
  • Chomp (A Cautionary Tale)
  • The Severed Nose
  • Dummy

Gleefully Macabre Tales

  • Really, Really Ferocious
  • Socially Awkward Moments With An Aspiring Lunatic
  • High Stakes
  • Special Features
  • Sex Potion #147
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • Everything Has a Purpose
  • Them Old West Mutations
  • Wasting Grandpa
  • A Bite For a Bite
  • Glimpses
  • Common Sense
  • Gross-Out!
  • Bad Coffee
  • Werewolf Porno
  • An Admittedly Pointless But Mercifully Brief Story With Aliens In It
  • Munchies
  • Roasting Weenies By Hellfire
  • Quite a Mess
  • I Hold the Stick
  • Scarecrow’s Discovery
  • Howard, the Tenth Reindeer/Howard Rises Again
  • BrainBugs
  • Cap’n Hank’s Five Alarm Nuclear Lava Wings
  • A Call For Mr. Potty-Mouth
  • The Bad Man in the Blue House
  • Abbey’s Shriek
  • The Socket
  • One of Them
  • Secret Message
  • Mr. Sensitive
  • The Bad Candy House
  • Disposal

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