Don Dies at the End...

"John Dies at the End is like an H.P. Lovecraft tale if Lovecraft were into poop and fart jokes."

That's how Fangoria described David Wong's infectious debut novel John Dies at the End. Starting off as a short, scary "campfire" story on Halloween (in 2001), it would be almost five years before Wong (a pseudonym for writer Jason Pargin) finished the novel. Once finished, the novel was first posted on the web for free, then self-published (by Wong), then released as a limited edition paperback by Permuted Press, before finally being re-released in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press...

In 2008 it was announced that cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli, he of Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep fame, had optioned the film rights to the novel. Then just the other day, Ain't It Cool News revealed that Coscarelli, who had been leaving cryptic hints on his twitter account, has been secretly filming John Dies at the End, with Paul Giamatti producing! The film stars newcomers Chase Williamson and Rob Mayes as John and Dave (or possibly Dave and John), Paul Giamatti as reporter Arnie Blondestone, Clancy Brown as Dr. Albert Marconi (an expert in the supernatural) and longtime Coscarelli collaborator Angus Scrimm...

Click here for Ain't It Cool's coverage of the film, and as always, watch this space for more...

About the book: It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't...

(Thanks to aintitcool.com)