Career
He has written four story collections and been nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2009 and Shirley Jackson Award in 2015. His work was also cited as an influence for Nic Pizzolatto, creator of True Detective. In March 2015, Simon Strantzas was selected as co-editor of the upcoming The Year"s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3 (2016).
In May 2014, Simon Strantzas released his fourth weird fiction collection from Hippocampus Press.
lieutenant contained nine stories with two novellas and seven short stories. South. T. Joshi called it "one of the best weird collections ever read—at least in the last 20 years and maybe longer than that." In May 2015, was nominated for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection.
