Guillermo Del Toro, Author, Chuck Hogan, Author . Morrow $26.99 (401p) ISBN 978-0-06-155823-8
Director Del Toro (who won an Oscar for Pan's Labyrinth
) makes a dramatic splash in his fiction debut, the first volume in a vampires vs. humanity trilogy, coauthored with Hogan (Prince of Thieves
). Just as a jumbo jet on a flight from...
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Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-155826-9
Del Toro and Hogan’s horror thriller trilogy got off to a rousing start with 2009’s The Strain, but this final volume continues the decline already evident in 2010’s The Fall. Instead of building on the coauthors’ clever modern variations on the...
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Guillermo Del Toro, Author, Chuck Hogan, Author, Ron Perlman, Performed by , read by Ron Perlman. Harper Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-171520-4
An ancient vampire is brought into New York by an immortality-seeking financier and infests the city with bloodthirsty, light-shunning revenants. Can two doctors, an elderly folklore professor, an exterminator and a gang member stem the monstrous...
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Britt Salvesen and Jim Shedden. Insight Editions, $29.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1608878604
This portrait of Bleak House, the home of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak), is pure nerd eye-candy. Salvesen and Shedden have assembled a richly illustrated house tour, with essays outlining how different areas represent different facets...
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Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke, illus. by Allen Williams. Harper/Tegen, $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-241446-5
In this dark fantasy, Funke (the Inkheart trilogy) revisits Pan’s Labyrinth, del Toro’s acclaimed 2006 film in which a girl undergoes a series of fairy tale–inspired tasks set against the backdrop of 1944 Spain. Ofelia, 13, must adjust to her new...
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Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-155822-1
Set over the course of three intense weeks, Del Toro and Hogan's gripping second volume in their near-future vampire trilogy picks up where The Strain, the first volume, left off, as the undead, aided by elderly Eldritch Palmer, one of the world's...
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Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Grand Central, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6174-8
This horrifying series launch from Del Toro and Hogan (the Strain trilogy) introduces occult investigator John Blackwood, who maintains a mailbox in Manhattan’s financial district, the repository for desperate requests for help. When FBI agent...
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