History Literature / WhatTheHellDidIJustReadANovelOfCosmicHorror

* MoralOfTheStory:
** Take care of your mental health. There is nothing wrong or shameful about seeking help.
** Also, "more cynical" does not mean "more credible". Sometimes things ''are'' good, or at least not the worst possible version of themselves they could be. (Amy, notably, is correct pretty much every time she argues for a softer-hearted course of action or interpretation of events, although not necessarily for the reasons she thinks).

The city of [[CityWithNoName Undisclosed]] is beginning to flood after a month-long downpour refuses to let up, and Dave and John have been recruited to find a marine's missing daughter, believed kidnapped by a cosmic entity calling himself "Mister Nymph." But the deeper they dig into the case, the weirder it gets, as more children go missing and a simple abduction case begins to look like another extra-dimensional invasion. The fate of all humanity may once again rest on John and Dave getting their shit together. BlackHumour and one MindScrew after another ensue.

** [[spoiler: The "abducted" children, who look like normal kids, but Soy Sauce reveals them to be parasitic larvae taking large bites out of their "parents." Also any documented evidence of their existence; the birth certificates of the ten missing kids that Amy shows John and Dave are actually blank pages, and the photo of Maggie that John showed Dave in chapter 2 is later revealed to have actually been an old Blockbuster Video card.]]

* ADogNamedDog: John's dog is named Diogee. Knowing John, its name is likely pronounced "D O G," even though the audio book apparently missed the joke and pronounces it "Dye-Oh-Gee."

* GoshDangItToHeck: Amy is very uncomfortable with swear words. She refers to the character "Shitbeard" as "Poop-beard." Also "We've got a, uh, fudge roach detector."

** Also, "more cynical" does not mean "more credible". Sometimes things ''are'' good, or at least not the worst possible version of themselves they could be. (Amy, notably, is correct pretty much every time she argues for a softer-hearted course of action or interpretation of events, although not necessarily for the reasons she thinks.)

* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: NON seems competent...until Dave, Amy, and John get to sit on a conference call. It's a typical ill-run corporate meeting, complete with a RunningGag about how this timeslot was originally a budget allocation meeting and half the people on the call didn't read the memo about it being rescheduled. (To Thursday. At two.)

* WhamLine: Mikey's mom, Chastity, when she realizes the truth. [[spoiler: "I don't have a son. I never did."]] The next chapter is named [[{{Lampshading}} "Wait, What the Fuck?"]]

Released on October 3rd, 2017.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Before he's revealed as a parasite,]] Mikey tells a creepy story about a place where the “Nephilim” have bred humans into pets with stunted little legs, like dogs. Given the eery similarity to the alternate universe [[spoiler: altered by the hatched parasite]], it's entirely possible the Nephilim are those huge, scaly monsters Dave & John see there. Thankfully we never find out if the other part of Mikey's story is true (about the Nephilim engineering humans to be [[{{Squick}} toothless and addicted to semen]]).

* PortalDoor: NON has a door to alternate dimensions. The first time we see it, they use it to bring John, Dave and Amy into a world that has been doomed with a planet-wide plague. The next time, a NON office-worker uses it to throw his coffee cup away. [[spoiler: The third time, one of the Fuckroach larvae is thrown in there right before it hatches. The dimension wasn't empty, and all the humans there are retroactively turned into naked, mutilated slaves of a Draconic humanoid race.]]%%Is this a door? An archway? A freestanding door? A door that NON can summon?