#Titanuary #BookFocus ‘John Dies At The End’ series by David Wong

I feel as if I have been living in a cockrel’s boot to have not noticed this series before!
Visiting the neares-and by nearest, I mean 20 miles and a train ride away-brick and morter bookshop is a bitter sweet experience.

It’s huge, rammed with books, but as with most shops these days, horror is an afterthought and is mostly shoved in the smallest place possible, and predominantly Stephen King heavy.

Le sigh.

So I started looking for the familiar Titan logo, being as I am focussing on the publisher for #Titanuary and found this beauty/

AND it’s a series! nothing more fun than finding a new author with a back catclogue to plunder, am I right?

Anyway, this was my ‘consolation’ book, in that I couldn’t find anything I was looking for and wanted to buy something . And what a consolation read it is!!

John Dies At The End

Combining the laugh-out-loud humour of the best R-rated comedy with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft, ‘John Dies @ the End’ is a wild ride along with two slackers from the Midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse.

I am a few chapters in and having been laughing a lot much to the annoyance of my husband who I can’t tell is more annoyed by my reading random chunks out or saying ‘You wouldn;t get it’

This Book Is Full Of Spiders

WARNING: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fearmongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection-the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the “cure” involves learning what a chain saw tastes like.

You can’t feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can’t see it, because it decides what you see. You won’t even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends, and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We’re all about to find out.

Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I’m just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it.

Either way, I won’t hold it against you if you’re upset. I know that’s just the spider talking.

What The Hell Did I Just Read?

‘John Dies at the End’s’ “smart take on fear manages to tap into readers’ existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next” (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was “unlike any other book of the genre” (Washington Post). Now, Wong is back with the third installment of this black-humored thriller series.

While investigating a fairly straightforward case of a shapeshifting entity from another dimension snatching local children, the gang realize there might actually be something weird going on. Together they will navigate a hilariously convoluted maze of illusions, lies, and their own incompetence, attempting to uncover a terrible truth they’d be better off not knowing.

I have Book 1 but already know that Books 2 and 3 will be on my 2020 hitlist-has anyone out there read them? Or seen the film that Book 1 was made into? Let me know!

About the author…

David Wong is the pseudonym of Jason Pargin. He is the Executive Editor of Cracked.com, author of John Dies at the End and the New York Times bestseller This Book is Full of Spiders. His third novel, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits debuted on October 6 2015.

Links-http://www.johndiesattheend.com/

Twitter @TitanBooks @JohnDiesattheEn