

The main story begins with Dave and John at a party, where John is performing with his band. Dave meets reporter Arnie in a local restaurant and recounts the origin of his and John's unusual abilities. Contentsĭave and John are a pair of paranormal investigators who live in an unnamed Midwestern town (referred to in the novel as "Undisclosed"). A film adaptation by Don Coscarelli was released in 2012. The book was followed by three sequels, This Book Is Full of Spiders in 2012, What The Hell Did I Just Read in 2017, and If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, in 2022.

Thomas Dunne Books published the story with additional material as a hardcover on September 29, 2009. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in September 2008. John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel written by David Wong that was first published online as a webserial beginning in 2001, then as an edited manuscript in 2004, and a printed paperback in 2007, published by Permuted Press.
