Bonus paperback content - an excerpt from the new John Dies at the End book, coming in fall 2026!
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.
But there are rules:
He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.
As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.
The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.
Pargin at the Peak of his Powers
"Black Box of Doom is a biting satire of the post-social media hellscape we currently inhabit. Podcasts, algorithmic bubbles, the modern attention economy polarizing people into neat little echo chambers and rewiring their sense of being. . . this isn't so much the plot of the book, but the elements Pargin brilliantly satirizes, deconstructs and lays out against the backdrop of a wild road trip that may or may not be about nuking the capital. It's Fight Club for the post-social media and livestreaming world."
