There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs (John Dies at the End, 5) [Pargin, Jason]

Author: Jason Pargin

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin's nightmarishly hilarious John Dies at the End series is back to entertain all who dare enter.

A massive, sticky pile of severed human limbs suddenly appears in the parking lot of a vacant department store in a desolate small town. A set of footprints is found trailing away in the snow, as if a single pair of bare feet had wandered off the pile. If this wasn't puzzling enough, the cops soon find that no one seems to be missing the limbs. Some of the fingerprints on the severed arms belong to living people with all their appendages intact, others match no one on file, and the rest of the limbs somehow have no prints at all.

This sounds like a case for local weirdos John, David, and Amy, partly because the cops don't want the headache and partly because David's own arm is in the pile, despite an identical copy of it still being attached to his body. When a mysterious man then shows up at David's home claiming to be in pursuit of an entity he calls "the Penetrator," it seems clear the trio is in for a long weekend.

In addition to stopping whatever this nonsense is, the gang will also have to quell the panicked headlines that threaten to ensue, which could prompt the feds to try to just wipe the whole town off the map (again). As such, the first thing you need to know is that, contrary to whatever ugly rumors you may have heard, there are no giant crabs in this novel.

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers (MPS)
Published: 11/03/2026
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.06oz
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250285973

About the Author
JASON PARGIN is the New York Times bestselling author of the John Dies at the End series, the award-winning Zoey Ashe novels and the critically acclaimed I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom. He previously published under the pseudonym David Wong. His essays at Cracked.com and other outlets have been enjoyed by tens of millions of readers around the world.