Guillermo del Toro is primarily known as a filmmaker, but his book-length fiction and illustrated projects extend the same interest in monsters, folklore and morally complicated fantasy. The Strain, written with Chuck Hogan, begins a trilogy about a vampiric epidemic investigated through medicine, history and a rapidly spreading biological threat. Trollhunters, co-written with Daniel Kraus, follows a teenager drawn into a hidden world of monsters beneath an ordinary town. Del Toro has also published notebooks and film-related books documenting creature design, story development and visual ideas. His catalogue therefore spans horror fiction, dark fantasy and filmmaking art books, with co-authorship important when identifying the actual text of individual titles. Read more Less