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John Dies at the End by David Wong

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John Dies at the End by David Wong

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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Who first came up with the strange notion of combining horror and comedy? Try counting the jokes in an H.P. Lovecraft story, and you won’t even get into the low single digits. Bram Stoker doesn’t give Count Dracula any witty one-liners, and Mary Shelley makes her Frankenstein monster almost exactly like a real human, except for the noticeably absent sen…

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