Trent's sister, Shannon Zelazny, reported on Facebook that he made "remarkable progress learning how to walk again," but "was then hit with acute liver failure, which resulted in his hospitalization and death."
His story "Lovely Day for Beating an Old Guy," published in the Brian Knight-edited anthology Random Acts of Weirdness (2002), was the first piece to attract attention.
[4] A film buff, he contributed to the Jean Cocteau Cinema, an independent movie theater in Santa Fe owned by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin, for which he wrote "Previews.
In 2012 Zelazny published his first collection as editor, the anthology Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre (Black Curtain Press, 2012), which contains work by Tom Piccirilli, E.A.
Black, Joseph S. Pulver, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeffrey Thomas, Edward Morris, Gerald Hausman, Joe R. Lansdale, Billie Sue Mosiman and others.
In 2013 his second anthology, Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes, was released, a collection of classic crime tales featuring David Goodis, Robert Leslie Bellem, Norman A. Daniels, and many others.
David Goodis, Cornell Woolrich, Jim Thompson, as well as Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Dean Koontz, and Donald E. Westlake[6] as well as his father, Roger Zelazny, and several of the existentialists, most notably Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre.