Series
John and Dave
David Wong · 4 novels · 2007–2022
Jason Pargin, writing as David Wong, began the John Dies at the End series as a free horror-comedy webserial in 2001 before print publication turned it into a franchise. The Lovecraftian adventures of narrator John and his friend Dave continue across This Book Is Full of Spiders, What the Hell Did I Just Read, and If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, and the original novel was adapted into a 2012 film.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
John and Dave at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
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Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone