- He wrote scripts for 9 years while working as a catering chef.
- His dark western script The Brigands of Rattleborge won the #1 top position on the Black List for best unproduced screenplay.
- He explained at the premiere of his film Dragged Across Concrete that actor Fred Melamed is his "muse". After seeing Melamed in the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man, he told Melamed that he wanted him to appear in every film he ever makes. Thus far, Melamed has done so.
- S. Craig Zahler is the author of the western novel A Congregation of Jackals, which was nominated for both major western writing awards, The Spur and The Peacemaker.
- Likes to be referred to as "Zahler", even by his girlfriend and closest friends.
- He was the drummer for the metal band Realmbuilder; who have three albums on Swedish label I Hate Records, and in the black metal band Charnel Valley, for which he also wrote lyrics and shared songwriting duties with Worm. They had two albums were released by Paragon Records.
- Two people fainted at the Toronto International Film Festival during the premiere screening of the horror movie Asylum Blackout (originally known as Incident at Sans Asylum), which is a script that Zahler wrote while he was still in college. The film was immediately picked up for distribution by IFC Midnight.
- He was a journalist for Metal Maniacs.
- He was a drummer, lyricist and singer, under his stage name Czar, and collaborates with his longtime friend Jeff Herriott (as JH Halberd) to write and perform songs as the heavy metal band Realmbuilder, who have three albums on Swedish label I Hate Records. He was also in the black metal project Charnel Valley, for which he played drums, wrote lyrics and shared songwriting duties with Worm and has two albums released by Paragon Records.
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