Dave reveals the real Arnie dead in the trunk of his car. Escaping their captors, the two flee with Molly just as the bomb detonates.Īn incredulous Arnie refuses to believe Dave, even after being shown one of the monsters the Shadow Men summoned. They are informed that through their use of the Soy Sauce, they are now the chosen vectors through which the Shadow Men will invade their world. While tracking the Shadow Men to an abandoned mall, John and Dave are transported to another dimension, where they are greeted by followers of a godlike being called Korrok, who commands the Shadow Men in a bid to conquer all possible universes for consumption and amusement via acts of mass genocide and torture. At one point they build a bomb, which is eaten by Dave's Irish setter Molly. One year later, Dave and John begin investigating various strange phenomena, all caused by the Shadow Men.
After a climactic battle scene at the Luxor, John and Dave return home and resume their lives. En route to Las Vegas, Detective Appleton kidnaps the group, until he and one other person are taken over by a malevolent force known as the Shadow Men, forcing the rest of the group to kill them. John and Dave gather the remaining survivors of the party and they head to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas to meet with Albert Marconi, an expert in the paranormal. Local police detective Lawrence Appleton informs Dave that everyone from the party except himself are either dead or missing, which turns out not to be true. Later, Dave accidentally injects himself with the drug in his pocket and begins to feel the effects. Dave leaves the party early and John meets up with him later at Denny's, where John reveals that he has taken a drug known as "soy sauce" and shows Dave a syringe containing the drug. 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. A film adaptation by Don Coscarelli was released in 2012.ĭave and John are a pair of paranormal investigators who live in an unnamed Midwestern town (referred to in the novel as "Undisclosed"). 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.
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