This Book is Full of Spiders (preorder)

(preorder—copies en route to us shortly)

Dust Jacket and interior illustrations by Zoë van Dijk.

Published by MidWorld Press.

About the Book:

Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection—the creature stimulates skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the “cure” involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. You can’t feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You won’t even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed.

Just stay calm, and remember that telling you about the spider situation is not the same as having caused it. I’m just the messenger. Even if I did sort of cause it. Either way, I won’t hold it against you if you’re upset. I know that’s just the spider talking.

Book Features:

• Artist(s): Zoë van Dijk has created wraparound dust jacket art as well as four interior illustrations and an illustrated signature page.
• Trim size: 6 x 9 inches
• Binding: Cloth-bound hardcover, Smyth Sewn
• Printed on 70# Smooth Natural acid-free paper
• 435 pages

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

“Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin's alter ego Wong returns with a sequel to the cult classic John Dies at the End… This phantasmagoria of horror, humor—and even insight into the nature of paranoia, perception, and identity—heralds the film adaptation of its predecessor; directed by Bubba Ho-Tep and Phantasm auteur Don Coscarelli, it premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.”

From Kirkus:

“Violence, soy sauce and zombie survivalists abound in this clever and funny sequel to John Dies at the End (2009)… One of the great things about discovering new writers, especially in the narrow range of hybrid-genre comedic novels, is realizing that they’re having just as much fun making this stuff up as you are reading it. Sitting squarely with the likes of S.G. Browne and Christopher Moore, the pseudonymous Wong (Cracked editor Jason Pargin) must be pissing himself laughing at his own writing, even as he’s giving fans an even funnier, tighter and justifiably insane entry in the series.”

From The Washington Post:

“Like an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead written by Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…Imagine a mentally ill narrator describing the zombie apocalypse while drunk, and the end result is unlike any other book of the genre. Seriously, dude, touch it and read it.”

From SF Signal:

“Kevin Smith’s Clerks meets H.P. Lovecraft in this exceptional thriller… [Jason Pargin] is a fantastic author with a supernatural talent for humor. If you want a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, disturbing, ridiculous, self-aware, socially relevant horror novel than This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don’t Touch It is the one and only book for you.”