âA high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying.â
âSan Francisco Chronicle
âPart The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead.â
âSalon.com
âChuck Hogan is known for his taut thrillers, Guillermo del Toro for his surreal horror films...The Strain brings out the best of each.â
âMinneapolis Star Tribune
An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strainâthe first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywoodâs most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Panâs Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order.
Guillermo del Toro is an Academy AwardÂŽâwinning film director as well as a screenwriter, producer, and New York Times bestselling novelist. He is best known for his foreign fantasy films, especially Panâs Labyrinth, and American mainstream movies like The Shape of Water. Del Toro has published multiple bestselling adult novels with HarperCollins, including The Strain, which was adapted into a TV series by FX, and he is the creator of Trollhunters, Netflixâs most-watched childrenâs series.
Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award, was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King, and was the basis of the motion picture The Town.Chuck Hogan es autor de varias aclamadas novelas, entre las cuales se encuentra Prince of Thieves que ganĂł el Hammett Award 2005 y que fue considerada una de las diez mejores novelas del aĂąo por Stephen King.