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This Book is Full of Spiders
496 pages
A chaotic, blood-soaked plunge into cosmic dread, fueled by cheap beer and weaponized slacker apathy.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like being trapped in a fever dream with your most exhausting, hilarious friends while the world ends outside. It is a propulsive, relentlessly chaotic experience that masterfully balances genuine, skin-crawling terror with laugh-out-loud absurdity. The atmosphere is soaked in paranoia and grotesque body horror, yet the narrative never takes itself too seriously, anchored by a deeply cynical but surprisingly tender core of ride-or-die friendship. The prose is conversational, profane, and sharply observant, lulling you into a false sense of slacker comedy before hitting you with visceral, Lovecraftian dread. It will absolutely delight readers who use dark humor as a coping mechanism and prefer their apocalyptic heroes to be wildly incompetent, deeply flawed, and entirely relatable.
- Mood
- paranoiac
- grotesque
- chaotic
- dread-soaked
- Tone
- irreverent
- darkly comedic
- cynical
- absurd
- self-deprecating
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- slacker apathy · cosmic insignificance · mass hysteria · ride-or-die friendship · the absurdity of modern life
- The writing
- Conversational and profanity-laced, effortlessly pivoting from laugh-out-loud lowbrow humor to genuinely stomach-churning descriptions of body horror.
- The arc
- Moves from cynical detachment into a frantic, terrifying spiral of apocalyptic paranoia, ultimately grounding itself in the exhausted loyalty of true friendship.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love their cosmic dread served with a side of cheap beer, profound incompetence, and relentless dark humor.
Content notes
- body horror
- graphic violence
- gore
- profanity
- substance abuse
- arachnophobia
- paranoia
About the book
"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional 60,000 copies in all formats.As the sequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full of Spiders, the next thrilling installment, takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse. "--
"Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional 60,000 copies in all formats. As the sequel opens, we find our heroes, David and John, again embroiled in a series of horrifying yet mind-bogglingly ridiculous events caused primarily by their own gross incompetence. The guys find that books and movies about zombies may have triggered a zombie apocalypse, despite a complete lack of zombies in the world. As they race against the clock to protect humanity from its own paranoia, they must ask themselves, who are the real monsters? Actually, that would be the shape-shifting horrors secretly taking over the world behind the scenes that, in the end, make John and Dave kind of wish it had been zombies after all. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, This Book Is Full of Spiders, the next thrilling installment, takes us for a wild ride with two slackers from the midwest who really have better things to do with their time than prevent the apocalypse. "--
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