About the book: 2012 / John and David continue to live in the Unnameable City, where the number of oddities per square meter exceeds any norm. This time they will have to deal with a zombie invasion. Although no, more likely with brain parasites. And perhaps with a global conspiracy... One of the main features of “John Dies in the End,” Wong’s debut book, was its fundamental chaos. The book ignored all the usual conventions. The author started a new intrigue almost every hundred pages and generally behaved unusually. In his new book - “This book is full of spiders. Seriously dude, don’t touch her.” Wong suddenly decided to play by the rules and showed that he was great at building a linear plot. But he wouldn’t be himself if he hadn’t become a hooligan, and therefore he deliberately introduced into the well-oiled mechanism of the narrative almost all the flaws for which newcomers are scolded, vividly played them out, put them on display and almost provided an explanatory sign “a piano in the bushes” and in the finale he literally showed readers “God ex machina.” And, if in his debut novel Wong openly mocked texts built on the principle of “stories within stories,” now he is ironic not so much at genre clichés as at the principles of plot construction described in textbooks on screenwriting. Wong can be called the Pratchett of horror, and his palette is even richer than Sir Terry's. Wong's paradoxical talent lies in the ability to combine the high and the low, extreme seriousness with a square farce, polished dialogues with the complete absurdity of situations, the undisguised absurdity of what is happening with almost philosophical questions, and joyful laughter with the most terrible horror. Here the parody turns into a real tragedy, which is not found in every serious novel, a tear-jerking scene is destroyed by one symbol, and the monsters turn out to be far from what they seem. “This Book is Full of Spiders” clearly proves that David Wong is here for the long haul and is serious. If he becomes the new face of horror, this dark genre will have a very bright future..