Dan West contains minute amounts of great white shark DNA and liquefies solid food with regurgitated stomach acids like a gigantic housefly. In his human form he has co-written and co-directed the films, Monsturd and RetarDEAD with his frequent collaborator, Rick Popko. He is the author of a trilogy of comedic horror novels: The House That Dripped Gore, And They All Died Screaming and Island of the People Drinkers. Other books include: Monsturd, the film novelization tie-in (co-authored with Rick Popko), Dan West's Homemade Embalming Fluid, and Dan West's Web of Lies.