The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
In completely unrelated news, Yahoo News reported today that Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro teamed up with thriller writer Chuck Hogan to write a book called The Strain that combines three things I find almost irresistable - post-apocalyptic type stuff, vampires, and zombies. Actually, it sounds like a mutant virus that sort of COMBINES vampires and zombies. Watch out for the vampies! Anyway, it’s already out - why did I not know about this before?! AND it’s the first book of a trilogy, so if I love it, I get to enjoy the giddy agony of waiting for the other books.
“…a visceral page-turner that reimagines vampirism as a virus that causes its victims’ bodies to mutate — disgustingly — into buglike creatures, stomping zombie-style around Manhattan and wreaking havoc. A disparate team of a rogue CDC doctor, rat-catcher and an Eastern European pawnshop owner come together to try to stop them.”
Anyway, I have two predictions. The first is that it will be pretty bad, and the second is that I will devour and love every minute of it nonetheless (then lick the orange powder from my fingers).
