Paperback, 464 pages
Published Jan. 14, 2020 by Griffin.
John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel written by David Wong that was first published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, then as an edited manuscript in 2004, and a printed paperback in 2007, published by Permuted Press. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in September 2008. Thomas Dunne Books published the story with additional material as a hardcover on September 29, 2009. The book was followed by three sequels, This Book Is Full of Spiders in 2012, What The Hell Did I Just Read in 2017, and If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, in 2022. A film adaptation by Don Coscarelli was released in 2012.
This book reads like it was written by a late Gen Xer at the turn of the millennium, and by that of course I mean that it has aged terribly. I could not recommend it. But also, I was a white boy in Southern Illinois in the late 90s myself, so I understand where it comes from and cut it more slack that I should. I stuck with it because some friends insist that the rest of the series gets better.
