John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, 1)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURESTOP.You should not have touched this book with your bare hands.NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you.My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours.You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye.The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.The important thing is this:The sauce is a drug, and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do.Unfortunately for us, if you make the right choice, we'll have a much harder time explaining how to fight off the otherworldly invasion currently threatening to enslave humanity. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this is was my fault.

Fangoria

“John Dies at the End…[is] a case of the author trying to depict actual, soul-sucking lunacy, and succeeding with flying colors.”

Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I–V and Bubba Ho-tep

“[Jason Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . ‘page-turner' is an understatement.”

David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero

“[Jason Pargin] has managed to write that rarest of things---a genuinely scary story.”

The Onion AV Club

“The rare genre novel that manages to keep its sense of humor strong without ever diminishing the scares.”

Publishers Weekly

“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.”

Kirkus Reviews

“When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for chills, it provides them in spades.”

i09.com

“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.”

About the Author

DAVID WONG is the pseudonym of Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of the John Dies at the End series as well as the award-winning first book in the Zoey Ashe series, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. His essays at Cracked.com have been read by tens of millions of people around the world.JASON PARGIN is the New York Times bestselling author of the John Dies at the End series as well as the award-winning first book in the Zoey Ashe series, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, formerly published under the pseudonym David Wong. His essays at Cracked.com have been read by tens of millions of people around the world.

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