The Book

April 7th, 2011
by blackrose93

Updated by John – 4/7/2011

It’s been a while since we’ve updated this section of the site, so let’s bring you up to date. Since the publication of John Dies at the End, quite a bit has happened. The sales went nuts and sold about ten times more than we ever expected. Don Coscarelli has wrapped up the filming of the movie and is currently working on the visual effects. And Dave has signed the deal to write the second novel.

Back in November of 2010, Dave announced the following on the Cracked.com forums:

A deal has been done for the sequel to John Dies at the End, tentatively titled THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It with St. Martin’s Press and Thomas Dunne Books.

I am writing it, and as of Thanksgiving 2010 I am on about page 125 of what will probably be a 300 page book unless I completely change my mind.

That means it will be done next year some time, unless disaster strikes. I do not know when it would be published. All answers to any questions about when you can actually read it will be nonsense since the book does not yet fully exist yet. I have to wait for certain ideas to occur to me before I can write them and they occur at their own pace. This is why some writers can crank out a book every three months, where others write one every ten years.

Work time is also a factor, my job at Cracked eats up between 70 and 80 hours a week depending on the week, so you can imagine that it doesn’t leave much time for side projects. But, we have signed a deal and the publisher has advanced me money and that means it’s going to get written.

Some of you will remember that he had a version of that story featured right here on this site for free, entitled John and Dave and the Temple of X’al’naa”thuthuthu However, when he signed the contract for the sequel to be written, that had to come down. When asked if the second book would be that story, Dave gave this answer:

The parasitic insect-like creatures featured in that story (the ones that embedded themselves in people’s heads and took over their brains) are the “spiders” referenced in the title. This book will be an extension and expansion of that story. But for instance Detective Vance Falconer returns. But about 2/3 of the way through the story you know, this one veers off in a different direction.

But because that story is incorporated in the new book I of course do not have the rights to post that story online, since the publisher is paying me to put that into a paper book that they can sell so their employees can buy food. So there’s no point asking me to re-post it on the internet or to post here asking where it can be found. I don’t like being a nazi about that sort of thing and in fact that story was posted openly, on the internet, for free, for more than four years. But now that they have paid me money for the rights it would be an incredible dick move to not do my best to protect their copyright on it. And that story is no longer “canon” anyway.

As of this post (April 7, 2011), Dave is most of the way through the first draft, with ‎93,839 words. However, don’t get all excited just yet. The first draft means that he’s got a rough cut. He’ll end up having to rewrite on that for quite some time, as well as send it through a lengthy editing process. But it does mean that the second story does now physically exist in the form of a book in his living room, minus the ending. It’s now just a matter of getting the time to wrap it up, start the refinement, and finding the time to devote to making the second book something you’ll love as much as the first one. He’s not going to just crap something out for the sake of making good time – what would be the point?

But it’s coming. Until then, you’re in the right place if you’re looking for news on the book or the movie or anything else to do with the JDatE universe. The second we know something that we can pass along, we do so on this website, Facebook, and Twitter. You can also keep up to date with our Google Group or our RSS feed.

From Dave – September 17, 2009

AVAILABLE NOW, WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD:



It’s a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users can 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.

______________________________

Here’s some background on the magical and mostly retarded tale of how this book came to be:

Around the turn of the century, while working in a cubicle at an insurance company I, David Wong, wrote a “fictional” story about my brush with the supernatural and posted it on the web.

Over the years word of mouth buzz drew in more than 70,000 readers.

Indie horror publisher Permuted Press put the tale into print…

… selling copies on Amazon and on the shelves of some Borders book stores.

Then Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep director/producer Don Coscarelli came calling and bought the film rights. Again, while I was still sitting in a small town, in a cubicle, typing up insurance claims for many hours a day.

Through sheer word of mouth, the Permuted print run was quickly sucked off the shelves by unsuspecting readers. Then megapublisher St. Martin’s Press came along–they’re the ones who own this building…

…and arranged to do a massive worldwide re-issue of the book in hardcover, in September of 2009.

In the mean time, I was hired as the Editor of Cracked.com, the humor site anyone can write for, that’s now doing about 80 million pageviews a month because hundreds of awesome people write there and I get to ride their coattails. They’ll figure it out eventually and I’ll be back in the cubicle in a year or so. So obviously it’s important that you buy a copy of the book so I can take the cash and run to Mexico before the world catches on.

Here’s all the stuff I’ve written elsewhere.

-DW

Comments (81)

81 Responses to “The Book”

  1. Lieutenant Geyser Shitdick Says:

    I was half-way through the online edition, passed out, and woke up here – what the hell is going on?

    What day is it?

  2. reckless abrandon Says:

    Sometimes a little bit of blood leaks from the binding of my Permuted Press copy of JDATE. Is this going to be taken care of in the St. Martin’s release?

  3. Wibblewobble Says:

    Hopefully the St. Martin’s edition will have a leak-proof spine.

    I don’t know if they’ll ever solve the noxious vapour problem, though.

  4. Citizen Snips Says:

    I love reading this book, but I just wish it’d quit shrieking at me every time I pick it up.

    I mean, it’s like a waking nightmare.

  5. TheEvilSloth Says:

    A good friend of mine was committed after reading this book. Like, she was a pretty normal, if a little uptight girl but then after she got through the online edition she became obsessed with shadow people. I kept trying to tell her that it was just a piece of fiction, but it completely overtook her life. She owned 3 copies of the book, including a first edition cafe-press, and I think all of them were signed by David Wong.

    One day she just locked herself in her room and refused to come out. Her parents left her there for a while, figuring it was just teenage angst, but when she hadn’t come out by the next day they forced the lock. She’d passed out on the floor surrounded by drawings she’d mad of black shapes and photos with peoples faces blacked out in pen.

    As much as I think this is a great book, and I’m sure it was purely coincidence that it triggered some sort of underlying psychosis, the whole thing still makes me really uneasy.

  6. bettytron Says:

    I don’t know what you guys are complaining about- my copy of the book cooks me breakfast and tells me when there’s something caught in my teeth.

  7. Otis Says:

    Every time I open JDATE in public, I get an erection so massive that it causes the disintegration of reality leading to my pants being unable to retain molecular cohesion which results in my constant, accidental exposure to kids.

    I trust this problem will be rectified for the new release.

  8. reckless abrandon Says:

    EDIT: Okay the book wasn’t bleeding, I just blacked out and lost some time after reading it for a while. My Mom said the blood was on it after I wandered back home, but I’m not sure whose it is.

  9. spermface Says:

    I read JDATE and now there’s sperm on my face.

  10. Disco Stu Says:

    I’m compelled to read the book once a month. I don’t want to, but if I go more than 30 days without reading it from cover to cover, an earsplitting screaming comes from nowhere and everywhere and won’t stop until I pick up the book again.

    I’ve lost two jobs because of this. I got kicked out of my apartment. I don’t dare throw the book away. What if the screaming starts and never stops?

  11. Nimby Says:

    Did anyone else’s monitor start melting while they were reading the online version of the story?

    And then after they stopped, was it whole again?

  12. reckless abrandon Says:

    Mine usually just jumped straight to gay porn. I updated Firefox though, and after that it would just let loose with this unearthly wail while I was trying to read. Turning the speakers off didn’t do anything.

  13. crimson_kahuna Says:

    The book scared the crap out of my neighbor who I loaned the book to, but my Dad really enjoyed the book’s crazy.

    Will there be a hardcover edition when it’s put out by the new publisher?

    I’m looking forward to the sequel, keep up the great work.

  14. John Cheese Says:

    Dave, are you reading this site? I need smokes. Call me.

  15. FutureMillennium Says:

    Wait, wait. So you’re saying I ordered a book thru’ my friend’s friend’s mother who bought it on Amazon and then brought it to the Czech Republic via an airplane to give it to me as soon as I paid her when I could’ve gotten it for free for being a whiny bitch?
    Now that’s unfair…

  16. monoxx Says:

    My JDATE copy dissapeared right around the time my dog died.
    I’m not trying to say imply anything here, but I think the fucking dog ate my book.

  17. Rrinman Says:

    Me too.
    But of graver concern is, what about those people who only read 4 chapters online, then stopped because they weren’t into the whole story to be honest, and just wanted to read it when they got around to it? What about those people? Now all of a sudden the story is becoming a big thing and they feel like shits for not finishing it earlier, because now they can’t brag about how they liked the story ‘before it became a mainstream hit’ and can’t say to their friends ‘oh yeah that book, yeah I read it way before everyone else even knew about it’.
    Those people are being left out in the cold, Wong. It’s just not right.
    And what is up with the Samsung 720N monitor? I keep having the brightness-adjustment-screen in my screen. The buttons are not responding. Anyone knows how to deal with that?

  18. Chistinalove Says:

    Thank you …. I absolutely love this book and will absolutely be watching the movie..no lie!!… Excellent writing skills there :)

  19. FalseLogic Says:

    Well, I got my book from Permuted Press, and all my friends who I let borrow it love it. Strange thing is that when it wasn’t in my possession, I would wake up from time to time because it felt like a dog was licking my hand. As soon as I was conscious, however, it stopped. My hand was still wet.

  20. Vohn_exel Says:

    Thinking back now, I cannot remember how I stumbled onto JDATE. A friend at work told me about the Video Game Manifesto, I researched that and found PWOT.

    Then I remember waiting to come home from work s I could read more of JDATE, not wanting to look at the chapter titles so I wouldn’t know if it was about to end or not.

  21. blattdorf Says:

    I’ll happily snatch a copy for myself. I was trying to do a translation of the book into Polish, but I have to start from scratch now if I’m going to have access to the revised edition. I’ve learned a lot while working on the free version, partly because that Cucumber thing was untranslatable, and partly because some passages didn’t make as much sense as I thought they would. What can you do…

    I’ll try scanning the goddamn thing later when I get my hands on it.

  22. Count Baqula Says:

    When I finished reading the book I had a strange tattoo on my foot, I lost track of a few hours and I can hear what animals are thinking. They all wan to eat me.

  23. Osanagokoro Says:

    Dear John,

    I started reading your book before it was “cool” and “the in thing to do.” I also began bragging about how awesome it was and how it was available online for free. I did this for years- I’m not sure how long exactly but parakeet had time to finish a correspondance course and get his real-estate license in that time.

    Anyways-back to the point- I finally hounded one of my friends into reading the book and sbe tells me its no longer online! Worse yet- it wont be until LATE 2009 when we can get a copy! Is there any way to purchase a copy before then?

    I want to get it soon- my parakeet is trying to foreclose on the house and I don’t know how much longer I’ll have a physical mailing address.

  24. arachnophobic.psycho Says:

    Why is this book so popular? Not a single person i know has ever even heard of this book before! I have, cause im a retarded 15 year old girl with nothing better to do, but i was genuinely surprised when not a single one of my nerdy friends knew about this shit. I tried to get this for christmas last year but it was totally sold out…it made me sad inside.
    But now i really want an OLDER copy of the book, just to see if its possessed by some demon. Cuz if it is, then maybe the voices in my head would have something to play with. I’m sure i’d get a headache tho, so i think it’d be safer to just wait till the new releases come out. I swear tho, when it does, i am going to shove it down every one of my friends’ throats. that is, if by then i still have friends >< i doubt it.
    Oh woe is me.
    So whatever, I’ll wait for the edited version.
    Much love from all my teenage hormones.
    O.H.S.

  25. Vohn_exel Says:

    I still can’t get my friends to take a look at it. Maybe our friends are all just lazy, Arachno. Though they give me strange looks whenever I laugh.

  26. xdxaxvxox Says:

    i loved the book dude. but for some reason while reading it my dick fell off, should i be worried?? then it reattached itself grew 2 more and turned back into the original wierd huh??

  27. Vohn_exel Says:

    Well it’s always nice to have spares.

  28. Doctor Zoidberg Says:

    My apartment was destroyed in a mysterious fire, and the only thing that survived without any harm was this book.

    The shelf it was sitting on was charred to a crisp, and even the wood underneath where the book had been setting was blackened, but the book itself did not even have any soot on it. It looked just like it did the day I bought it.

  29. Vohn_exel Says:

    I think I’d wash my hands everytime I touched that lightswitch.

  30. KnightStalkerBob Says:

    Found your book at Amazon today, and they want $180 dollars for it, even though it’s not even in stock. What’s it made out of, bloody baby seal skins or something?

    Loved the book while it was on-line, looking forward to finding it in print. Although at that price, some people may have to disappear first for me to be able to afford it…

  31. That Other Guy Says:

    Dawn…..Fucking. Saved.

  32. Dawn Says:

    Gives new meaning to turning a guy on, doesn’t it?

  33. Doctor Zoidberg Says:

    Called to schedule classes today, and while listening to the cheery, vomit inducing “On Hold Music”, I swore I heard a tortured voice screaming in the background “A Light! A Light Cream!”. I dunno what it means, but I am inclined to say that this book is responsible for it.

  34. Wild T Says:

    Uh, hey. Guys? Is it normal to start seeing a spider the size of a cat hanging around my copy of the book? And why is it dragging a foot-long erection behind it? I only ask because my wife is now pregnant and having strange cravings for liquified insect organs.

  35. Vohn_exel Says:

    I’m sure those are difficult to come by.

  36. Sinoj Says:

    God damn… A friend borrowed my copy and discussing the book with her made me want to re-read it as well, and now I can’t. Great to hear about the re-release though! I’ll get me one of those copies as well. Looking forward to the sequel too, keep up the good works.

  37. Eladin Says:

    a friend told me to buy the book. she’s always been reliable. i saw how much the book was going for, and bought one at around 60 dollars. i can’t believe people bitched about 15. get a job. it was worth it.

  38. musalicious Says:

    Hey…So I really really want a copy of the book. But goddammit, it’s nowhere to be found. If anyone can like…link me to a place or tell me where to find it, PLEASE help me and e-mail me at fadingdeadstar@gmail.com. Thanks guys.

  39. AndreDC Says:

    Hey i don’t know if this is okay but i knew you’d take the book down, ha i really appreciate the imagination what went into this book, we need more like this that take you out of this world while you’re still there, but cmon people it is just a story all be it a awesome one, keep it up and i copied the story i got it on my comp is that okay?

  40. Jade Rothwell Says:

    I hate that there’s a wait untill it comes out.. I’ve been wanting to show soooo many people the story but it was taken down.. gah

    I cant fricken wait to read it again

  41. JaG Says:

    AndreDC – it’s fine as long as you email it to me…

  42. Eladin Says:

    when is the next book supposed to come out?

  43. tiffy Says:

    so yeah.Its 200 dollars for the book on amazon right now. I really need a copy but I dont have that money is there any way i can get a copy for less.
    email me at
    why-do-we-build-castles-in-the-sky@hotmail.com

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  46. Camojoe Says:

    I sent my uncle the link when it was still active… it cured his erectile problems.

    He said he’s never been so freaked out in his life, he even lost the erection he’s had for the last 13 years.

    He declined posing for a pic, so… you will have to take my word for it.

    This story should be standard in all hospitals for all those dicks that inject their cocks with coke. It might just save a boner for another day.

  47. Kerghan Says:

    If this does turn out to be a book of major significance in the near future, I’m gonna end being one of the smucks that got the second edition. Crap…

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  49. Jordan Dillman Says:

    I still have the old version of the book. the blue one.

  50. Jade Rothwell Says:

    Hey, is there some type of order waiting list? That would be f-in amazing .. a release date would also be amazing :D

  51. Mint_Julep_Sunshine Says:

    Silly complainy people need to get a job and rightfully buy your book. I am, for one, totally stoked to be able to purchase a copy when it comes back out later this year.

    My only beef would ever have been that I did search for it through a book store, they could order a copy, and my total would have been like.. 250 dollars? It was nuts. If I had 250 dollars to spare, I would certainly blow it on your book. But, at the time… my jaw hit the floor. 17.00, though, would be easy as pie.

    Can’t wait to see the movie. I read the entire first book online. It was hard to read on the ‘puter, but it was even harder to do other things. Especially while I was reading at work. Heh. Hoorah!

  52. Crayonman Says:

    I just went to amazon.com to order your book. And , as i just read above.. the book was out of stock, but i could pre order for 200 bucks. I would like to read your book, maybe if you could have a Kindle version made for a 95 percent discount, I would definitely order it.

  53. thermitemonkey Says:

    I read JDatE years ago– had to be early 05 or late 04, since I was fired from that job on the Ides of March 05. Just went looking for it again recently to recommend it to a friend and found all this.
    Holy crap! I’m so proud of you, Wong!! I’m buying four copies as soon as availability allows.
    Will the book have the same entheogenic properties as the original web version, or will I have to supplement it with ritual action?

  54. Neffable Says:

    Just thought I’d drop in to say that if you don’t want to pay $200 for this book (even though it’s totally worth it), the hardcover version on Amazon is only $16.49.

    (I laughed.)

  55. Widgies Says:

    The end is nigh.

    Where’s my book David? The coming apocolypse is bound to be soon…

    Eye.

    Serve.

    None.

    But.

    Kor’rok.

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  57. YaoiIsMyLife Says:

    God, I’m waaaaaay too young to have read this book…my twenty year old brother forced to read this, he’s twice my age. It wasn
    ‘t exactly ‘forced’ since i fell in love with this book after chapter one. I admit, i read it because the name bugged me and i wanted to know if john dies at the end or not…but seriously, dispite the fact that everytime i had an adult over my shoulder wonding what i was doing, i kept feeling like i was hiding porn or something, it turned out great! My brother didn’t think i’d understand everything…i showed him wrong…XD

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    JDATE For The Win!!!!!!!!!!

  61. WiggleSoySauce Says:

    Eye
    Serve
    None
    But
    Kor’rok

    Woah. I just blacked out. So when’s the sequel?
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  62. daemon012 Says:

    So im one of those noobs who just read this thing, im still not sure how i found out about it, or even why my library says im the one who told them to buy it.
    I decided that it doesnt matter because now i know im not the only guy with a pi sign on my toe.
    also it gave me hope that one day my equally fucked up book will fool people into thinking its good. and when that day comes…i will probably die. anyways thanks for writing, your the greatest!!!

  63. Georgette Says:

    I borrowed my copy from the local library. When I went back to renew it so I could have the book for another two weeks but the building was gone. How can I avoid the late fees now?

  64. quinsibell Says:

    I read this back on Pointless Waste of Time, saw a copy in a bookstore- very cool. But why is it not available for kindle in Australia?

  65. Weirdo_Girl Says:

    After I finished reading this book, I experienced a weird coughing fit. I thought your book was doing this to me. I went to the doctor and it stopped! Not making any accusations but, I think the drug dealer I bought it from passed a disease through the book to me. I mean, he was homeless.

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  67. almightytom Says:

    So i found this book in my refrigerator a couple days ago. I read it, and when I finished, I realized that I am actually a sofa. Is this normal? I am very confused.

  68. TakeTheStairs747 Says:

    Love the book. When Largeman started to bang on the tv screen and it started shaking..that part scared me. And the whole watching through the tv. I’m one of those freaks who has to turn off the tv, and cover up faces on magazines/books because of eyes when I get dressed. I have this odd idea that someone, somewhere, is laughing at my small boobs…. But I digress. John!?!?! How come your dick doesn’t have its own account on here??? I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.. It should.

  69. Batshit Says:

    Okay so here’s the deal, I live in Norway. I have searched far and wide for the book, I promise you NOT A SINGLE bookstore within a 3 hour driving radius (yes I checked) had the book available.
    I starting reading more and more descriptions about the book and found out that I must read it.
    I would like to add that I’m a cheap bastard and a poor student so ordering the book online and paying through the ass for shipment from England and all was not really an option.
    I skipped (like a girl) down to the local library and demanded they order the book!
    And so they did. It is now two months later, I picked up the book around 32 hours ago and I’m just finished reading it.
    Leaving out 7.5 hours for my summer job and around 30 minutes for sleep I think it went pretty quick.

    What I really want to say is: Props Mr.Wong fucking props. All hail the (un)holy ink you wrote this book with, and thank for for being psychotic enough to even imagine the contents of the book. You have nothing but my utmost respect.

    Now left quite satisfied, I at last want to say: I thank you deeply for writing a second novel.

    I hereby command you start thinking about writing at least 5 more novels. If not I will kill myself and then you.

    No but seriously, it was without a doubt the most interessting, entertaining, and all around awesome book I have ever read. Thank you so much for writing it!
    Ps. I am buying the book so I have my own copy next week, in hopes that the revenue will supply you with enough cherry beverage and bratwurst to help you consentrate on writing the comming novel(s)

    Oh and incidently, my feet av started growing tiny mustaches and I seem to be missing a thumb, In adittion to this I believe I am currently shaped in the form of a rectangular sleeve from a white shirt, is this a common side-effect from reading the book? Please get back to me on that.

    - William A. Philip

  70. scghst1 Says:

    Is your book really banned in 74 countries?

  71. facadepapergirl Says:

    Dunno why it took me so long to decide to register here …should’ve done so a year ago.

    Anyways, I’ve read all of these comments, and I’ve been laughing. Funny jokes, guys. Like anyone would believe that any of it is real. Its all jokes that everyone goes along with.

    Til I got my own weird story. Makes me wonder if any of the other stories are true.

    So. I first started reading the book at the town’s biggest bookstore. Every time I visited again, I read a little more. When I stopped by the public library, I saw that they had it, and I asked my friend, who had a card, to borrow it for me, and I finished it. When I got a job at McDonald’s, guess what I spent part of my first paycheck on?

    Now, here’s the weird bit: I let my friend borrow it. We were still in high school, then. He was an all A student who loved to talk with his friends, was devoted to his girlfriend, and played Magic : The Gathering. After he finished his school work, though. He always did his work, and paid attention in class.

    When I let him borrow it, he completely shut down. We had to wrestle the book from him, and force him to do his work. He wouldn’t even listened when our favorite teacher talked. Since she was so often ignored and disrespected, we always made sure that she knew that we were listening, and cared but he was so into it, he didn’t care.

    When I came to school the next day, his girlfriend and his best friend were threatening to burn it. He completely ignored his girlfriend, who even tried getting intimate with him; he also chose to forgo doing the things he loved with his friend (playing games such as Magic, Mortal Combat and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. He’d been going completely gaga over the new Mortal Combat, too ) and staying up to unholy hours just to read it.

    He returned to normal after he finished it, though.

    Our other friends, and even his girlfriend wanted to read the book that did that to him, so I lent it to them. All with the same result. Like zombies! Or a conversion!

    The book really is good. I’m a bibliophile who’s been reading on a college level since elementary and I eat books like how the Cookie Monster USED to eat cookies. Its safe to say that I’ve read a million books in my short life. And JDATE is definitely my favorite.

    But I don’t think any normal book can do that to that many people. Even Twilight, with its colossal cult, didn’t do that to people. It was like a drug. They seriously could not stop reading it.

    And it sucks typing this. I’m on my phone, and I have to use the on-screen keyboard because my pullout one is too loud and will wake my dad up.

  72. Somnium Says:

    Hello,just wondering’:
    Where is the pi tottoo placed more exactly? Right or left foot,an where under the foot?
    Thanks

  73. RyanJP Says:

    Where was the story originally posted? Not looking to find it as I know it’s been taken down- Just curious as to where to find some other good work on the net!

  74. creeperkid6427 Says:

    Okay, don’t hate me. But I’m totally wondering why I haven’t heard of this before. I mean, it’s not mainstream now, I don’t know anyone who’s ever heard of it. But there’s a movie coming? I just don’t understand when this got so popular. Is it even popular? Maybe it only appeared a couple weeks ago, but everyone else is conditioned to believe its been around for years?

  75. First Look at ‘John Dies at The End’ | The Grizzly Bomb Says:

    [...] Anyway, the book is being adapted into a movie by Don Coscarelli, who previously did Bubba Ho-Tep and Phantasm. If you’ve seen either of them, you know that Coscarelli  tends to lean towards the bizarre and fantastical. John Dies at the End, it seems, is right up his alley. Here’s a plot synopsis, straight from the book’s website: [...]

  76. yelsew91 Says:

    I came across this book by accident. I was at Joliet Illinois barns and noble just browsing around. I was in a hurry to leave so I picked the most random book on the shelf and bought it (soy suace ink?). I immediatly became obsessed. Since then ive bought two more copies (hardcover and the android version).

    Ive let my friends borrow one and it ended up being borrowed by thier friend and then thier friend after that so Im not completly sure where it is now.. Shit Narnia?

    What Im saying is I stumbled apon a real masterpiece that has a sorta power in its own. People liking it so much they have to tell other people and in turn those people have to tell people. Congrats, youve made a std in book form.

    Did I mention this book got me laid. ;)

  77. First Look at ‘John Dies at The End’ | The Grizzly Bomb Says:

    [...] Anyway, the book is being adapted into a movie by Don Coscarelli, who previously did Bubba Ho-Tep and Phantasm. If you’ve seen either of them, you know that Coscarelli  tends to lean towards the bizarre and fantastical. John Dies at the End, it seems, is right up his alley. Here’s a plot synopsis, straight from the book’s website: [...]

  78. ijustneedtoleaveonecomment Says:

    facadepapergirl, I can absolutely back up your phenomena. I stumbled across this weird website with a long, rambling story of two foul-mouthed ‘every dudes’ who stumble across interdimensional portals and creepy monsters, but mostly just don’t seem to give a single fuck. For days I would come home from work, sit down at my computer, and read for hours, only to squeeze in a few more minutes in the morning before work. After I finally finished the thing, however, a computer crash lost all my bookmarks and I could never remember the guys’ names, the title, author, or even the url. It was lost.

    For the last several years I had given it up as one of those net ghosts, trapped in the data stream somewhere but unable to be freed. The last couple years I’ve had John Dies At The End recommended to me, and I’ve always thought, “huh, interesting name, I should really look into that sometime.” But I never did.

    And then tonight, a grand thing happened: I became bored. Bored enough to begin hunting down lost internet comics, short stories, and general fiction I remember from years ago. This endeavor was mostly a failure. Fortunately, I was still bored enough to hunt down every book that’s been recommended to be in the last several years and reading bits on Amazon. As I read JDATE’s suprisingly long excerpt, I began to feel a sense of deja vu. “Huh,” I thought, “this book reminds me of that weird story I’ve been trying to find for the last two hours.” I kept reading. I read the Note To The Reader. “Holy Shit! I exclaimed. “*This* was that goddamn website!”

    Now, a more careless reader might think this mere coincidence. An Oprah-watcher might take this as evidence of The Secret at work. But we know the truth. *I* didn’t think this book into my life – this book summoned *itself*, like a narcissistic Cthulhu, and squarely placed itself in my path. I don’t know yet what it wants of me. I am not certain how to communicate with it. But I know now that I cannot be rid of it. It is foolish to try, and perhaps dangerous. Better to simply give it prominent space on your shelf, and maybe try to appease time to time with burnt and blackened bodies of lesser books. I ordered my copy tonight; I’m hoping it won’t have too expensive tastes.

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