by David Wong (Author)
On the street they call it Soy Sauce - it's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit, and lets users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't...Originally released as an online serial where it received over 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. Hilarious, terrifying, engaging and wrenching, "John Dies at the End" 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 04 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 0312659148
ISBN 13: 9780312659141
John Dies at the End...[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors. --Fangoria
David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . 'page-turner' is an understatement. --Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V and Bubba Ho-tep
David Wong has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story. --David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero
The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares. --The Onion AV Club
Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next. --Publishers Weekly
When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades. --Kirkus Reviews
The book takes every pop culture trend of the past twenty years, peppers it with 14-year-old dick and fart humor, and blends it all together with a huge heaping of splatterpunk gore.... Successfully blend[s] laugh-out-loud humor with legitimate horror. --i09.com
DAVID WONG is the pseudonym of Jason Pargin, Senior Editor and columnist for humor megasite Cracked.com.