New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin has announced the fifth installment in his John Dies at the End series, There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs.
The 384-page cosmic horror novel will be published on November 3 via St. Martin’s Press.
Here’s the full synopsis:
“A massive, sticky pile of severed human limbs suddenly appears in the parking lot of a vacant department store in a desolate small town. A set of footprints is found trailing away in the snow, as if a single pair of bare feet had wandered off the pile.
“If this wasn’t puzzling enough, the cops soon find that no one seems to be missing the limbs. Some of the fingerprints on the severed arms belong to living people with all their appendages intact, others match no one on file, and the rest of the limbs somehow have no prints at all.
“This sounds like a case for local weirdos John, David, and Amy, partly because the cops don’t want the headache and partly because David’s own arm is in the pile, despite an identical copy of it still being attached to his body.
“When a mysterious man then shows up at David’s home claiming to be in pursuit of an entity he calls ‘the Penetrator,’ it seems clear the trio is in for a long weekend.”
John Dies at the End was first published online as a web serial beginning in 2001 before being printed in 2007. It was followed by 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.
Phantasm filmmaker Don Coscarelli helmed the 2012 adaptation of John Dies at the End starring Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, and Clancy Brown.
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