Jeff Strand Reading Order

6 books (2000–2020)

The Andrew Mayhem series consists of six complete horror novels published between 2000 and 2020, with the first book being Graverobbers Wanted. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Graverobbers Wanted and continuing through Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, Casket for Sale, Suckers (co-written with J.A. Konrath), Cemetery Closing, and concluding with Lost Homicidal Maniac. This finished series offers six installments of darkly comedic horror from author Jeff Strand.

Start with Graverobbers Wanted, the first of 6 books in the Andrew Mayhem series.

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1	Graverobbers Wanted 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Single White Psychopath Seeks Same 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Casket for Sale 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Suckers(With: J.A. Konrath) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Cemetery Closing 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Lost Homicidal Maniac 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Suckers(With: J.A. Konrath) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

68 books (2006–2026)

Jeff Strand's Anthologies series comprises 44 horror and non-fiction collections published from 2006 to 2025, with new entries still being released. The series spans a diverse range of themed compilations including DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror, Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror, and High Stakes: A Vampire Anthology, among many others. These should be read in publication order, beginning with DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, as each volume represents a distinct collection from its time of release.

Start with DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, the first of 44 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	DeathGrip: Exit Laughing 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Bits of the Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Horror Library, Volume 3 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Mad and the Macabre 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Waiting For October 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Attic Toys 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Chiral Mad 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Horror for Good 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Blood Rites 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Fear the Reaper 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	High Stakes: A Vampire Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Horror Library, Volume 5 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Mister October, Volume II 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Wicked Seasons: The Journal of New England Horror Writers, Volume II 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Dead Harvest 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Piercing the Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Ten Times Ten Tales : Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror & Adventure Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Anything but Zombies 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Christmas Horror Volume 1 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Aghast 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Madhouse: An Illustrated Shared World Psychological Horror Anthology 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Splatterpunk's Not Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Gruesome Tensome: A Short Story Tribute to the Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Collected Easter Horror Shorts 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Dark Places, Evil Faces 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Devil's Guests 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	A Plague of Shadows 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Christmas Horror Vol. 2 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Clickers Forever 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Fantastic Tales of Terror 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Halloween Haunts Volume 1 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	And Hell Followed 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Tales of the Lost, Volume 1 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Brewtality: Extreme Horror Anthology 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Christmas Horror Volume 3 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Laughing at Shadows 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Leaders of the Pack 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Night Frights Issue #1 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	An Unholy Thirst 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Baker's Dozen 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Halloween Nights 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Monsters Monsters Monsters Monsters 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Battered, Broken Bodies 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Forbidden Futures 7 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Monstorm 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Razor Blade in the Fun-Size Candy 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Splatterpunk's Basement of Horrors 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	The Never Dead 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Blood Games: A Vampire Anthology 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Evil Little F***s 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	To Hell and Back 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Splatterpunk's She Dotted Her Eyes 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	The Horror Collection: Amber Edition 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	The Horror Collection: Crystal Edition 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	The Horror Collection: Sinister Edition 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	The Joke is on Mankind 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	The Horror Collection Halloween Edition 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	The Horror Collection Jewel Edition 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	The Horror Collection Toxic Edition 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

20 books (2015–2020)

The Cemetery Dance Select series comprises 20 books published between 2015 and 2020, each featuring a curated selection of stories by different horror authors including Bev Vincent, Jeff Strand, John R. Little, Kaaron Warren, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lee Thomas, Lisa Morton, and many others. This complete series should be read in publication order, with Bev Vincent's collection serving as the first entry. Each volume functions as an anthology showcasing the work of individual horror writers, making the series a comprehensive guide to contemporary horror fiction.

Start with Cemetery Dance Select: Bev Vincent(By: Bev Vincent), the first of 20 books in the Cemetery Dance Select series.

5 books (2008–2022)

Jeff Strand's Collections series consists of five horror short story compilations published between 2008 and 2022, likely representing a complete collection. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Gleefully Macabre Tales and continuing through Dead Clown Barbecue, its Expansion Pack, Candy Coated Madness, and concluding with Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities. Each volume offers standalone stories that can be enjoyed individually, making the series accessible to readers seeking bite-sized horror and dark humor across multiple volumes.

Start with Gleefully Macabre Tales, the first of 5 books in the Collections series.

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1	Gleefully Macabre Tales 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dead Clown Barbecue 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dead Clown Barbecue: Expansion Pack 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Candy Coated Madness 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2024–2026)

Jeff Strand's Eek! series is an ongoing horror collection that began in 2024 with two books published in that year. The series should be read in publication order, starting with It Watches in the Dark followed by Nightmare in the Backyard. More installments are planned for this growing series.

Start with It Watches in the Dark and read in order.

28 books (1979–2025)

The Encyclopocalypse Movie Tie-In series comprises 27 books exploring horror and cinema through novelizations and original screenplays adapted from film, published between 1979 and 2025. This ongoing collection should be read in publication order, beginning with Hardcore and continuing through works by various authors including Jeff Strand, Christian Francis, and Tom Holland. The series blends horror genre material with film history, drawing from sources ranging from cult classics to major studio productions. With new entries still being released, this series offers an expanding library for fans of horror cinema and adapted material.

Start with Hardcore(By: Leonard Schrader), the first of 27 books in the Encyclopocalypse Movie Tie-In series.

1 book (2020–2020)

2 books (2005–2021)

Jeff Strand's Pressure series consists of two horror novels published across sixteen years, with the first book arriving in 2005 and its sequel Deathless in 2021. The series should be read in publication order beginning with Pressure. While the extended gap between installments suggests the series is likely complete, both books are available for readers seeking Strand's dark horror fiction.

Start with Pressure and read in order.

#	Title
1	Pressure 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Deathless 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2011–2022)

Jeff Strand's Short Stories/Novellas series comprises eight collections of horror fiction published between 2011 and 2022. The series appears to be complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Specimen 313 and concluding with Twentieth Anniversary Screening. Each entry showcases Strand's approach to short-form horror across varied themes and settings.

Start with Specimen 313, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Specimen 313 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Faint of Heart 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Kutter 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Stalking You Now 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Facial 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	An Apocalypse of Our Own 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Cold Dead Hands 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Twentieth Anniversary Screening 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2024–2024)

35 books (2000–2026)

Jeff Strand's standalone novels span from 2000 to 2025 and currently comprise 34 books, with the series remaining ongoing. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with How to Rescue a Dead Princess. Strand's output across this collection blends horror and non-fiction elements, with titles ranging from A Bad Day For Voodoo and Fangboy to collaborative efforts like Draculas with Blake Crouch, F. Paul Wilson, and J.A. Konrath.

Start with How to Rescue a Dead Princess, the first of 34 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	How to Rescue a Dead Princess 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Mandibles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Out of Whack 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Disposal 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Elrod McBugle on the Loose 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Haunted Forest Tour(With: James A. Moore) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Benjamin's Parasite 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Draculas(With: Blake Crouch,F. Paul Wilson,J.A. Konrath) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Dweller 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Fangboy 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Sinister Mr. Corpse 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	A Bad Day For Voodoo 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	I Have a Bad Feeling about This 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Kumquat 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Blister 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Cyclops Road 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Everything Has Teeth 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Stranger Things Have Happened 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Bang Up 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Bring Her Back 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	How You Ruined My Life 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Sick House 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Clowns Vs. Spiders 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Ferocious 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	My Pretties 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Allison 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Autumn Bleeds Into Winter 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Odds 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Demonic 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Veiled 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Creep Out 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Bloodsucker County 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Your Body Will Never Be Found 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Fun Times at the Bloodbath 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1997–2020)

Jeff Strand's Wolf Hunt series comprises three horror novels published across two decades, from 1997 to 2020. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with the first Wolf Hunt and continuing through the sequels. All three books are now available, making this a finished series for readers seeking a concluded narrative arc.

Start with Wolf Hunt and read in order.