Jefferey Thomas has worked as a carapace waxer at a farm that raised giant beetles (their exoskeletons used in the creation of Scarab hovercars), operator of the Vomit Comet and Screamer rides at the annual Paxton Fair, and as a member of the Accident Response Ground Hosers (ARGH) team at the Paxton Teleportation Center.

His career as a writer took off when he switched from the fiction of books such as Letters from Hades and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers to nonfiction studies of his hometown and its citizens, like Punktown, Monstrocity and Everybody Scream! He lives in Punktown.