 First edition cover | |
| Author | Jason Pargin |
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| Language | English |
| Series | John Dies at the End |
| Genre | Cosmic horror |
| Published | October 18 2022 |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781250195821 |
| Preceded by | What the Hell Did I Just Read |
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe is a 2022 comic Lovecraftian horror novel by Jason Pargin. It is the fourth book in the John Dies at the End series, written under a working title "David Wong Dies in This One".[1] It is also the first of Pargin's novels published under his real name beginning from the first edition, after he had abandoned the "David Wong" pseudonym his previous books were published under.[2]
The novel picks up with Dave, his girlfriend Amy and his friend John about two years after the previous book What the Hell Did I Just Read. Now approaching their thirties, the trio lives in [Undisclosed], a dying American Midwest town sitting on a hole in a fabric of reality from which interdimensional entities repeatedly attempt to break through. Having become famous for being able to deal with such situations in the past novels, John and Dave are frequently called upon by both police and local inhabitants, even though a surprisingly large percentage of such calls end up being mundane nonsense. Dave is the main narrator of the story, relating events to the reader in first-person, while John, Joy and Amy supplement him with their third-person accounts.
- ^ Pargin, Jason. "The next John and Dave book, plus a general update for the end of 2020". johndiesattheend.com. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ Pargin, Jason (24 July 2021). "I was David Wong". Substack. Retrieved 22 May 2023.