Horror-humor page-turner. This definitely feels like a book from 2008. Some of the edgy humor would have been cringey even back then. At other times, the bleak hopelessness seems prescient. Stranger Things feels like it was inspired a bit by this book, or maybe they were both taking from the same source material. John Dies at the End reminds me of HP Lovecraft, in that it attempts to describe a towering disgusting cosmic horror & is very of it’s time. Also reminds me of Stephen King, probably because it's very obviously influenced by Lovecraft. Not sure what the Amy character saw in the protagonist. John seemed easier to deal with in many ways, if you could get past how annoying he is.