John Dies at the End

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. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in September 2008. Thomas Dunne Books published the story with additional material as a hardcover on September 29, 2009. The book was followed by a sequel, This Book Is Full of Spiders, in 2012 and What The Hell Did I Just Read in 2017. A film adaptation by Don Coscarelli was released in 2012.