What the Hell Did I Just Read is the third book in the John Dies at the End series, and it’s fantastic. Like the other books, it’s a hilarious, wild, gruesome ride.
Category: Horror
I’m a big fan of Guillermo del Toro’s movies (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water) so I was excited to read his new book The Hollow Ones, co-written by Chuck Hogan.
Horror seems like a strange thing to enjoy reading: why would you want to be terrified while mental images of grotesque bloodshed are burned into your head? What’s wrong with you?
Of course, nothing’s wrong with you. One of the jobs of fiction is to give us clues on how to survive, and seeing how characters (maybe) defeat horrific beasts gives us hope in fighting our own monsters.