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Guillermo del Toro

Born

in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

October 09, 1964

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Genre

Horror, Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality

Influences

Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Lawrence Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Jorge Lui ...more

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Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director mostly known for his acclaimed films Pan's Labyrinth, The Devils Backbone, Crimson Peak and the Hellboy film franchise. His films draw heavily on sources as diverse as weird fiction, fantasy, horror, and war. In 2009, Del Toro released his debut novel, The Strain, co-authored with Chuck Hogan, as the first part of The Strain Trilogy, an apocalyptic horror series featuring vampires. The series continued with The Fall in 2010 and concluded with The Night Eternal in 2011. ...more

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Guillermo del Toro’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 268,447 ratings · 24,952 reviews · 152 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strain (The Strain #1) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.80 avg rating — 90,042 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall (The Strain #2) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.83 avg rating — 40,395 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Eternal (The Strain #3) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.72 avg rating — 30,891 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author), Allen Williams (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 21,993 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shape of Water 3.88 avg rating — 21,778 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hollow Ones by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.69 avg rating — 8,982 ratings — published 2020 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Fabrizio De Tommaso (illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 8,636 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pit and the Box (The Boy in the Iron Box, #2) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Fabrizio De Tommaso (illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,438 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Fabrizio De Tommaso (illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,085 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Fabrizio De Tommaso (illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 4,032 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Guillermo del Toro

The Strain (3 books)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.79 avg rating — 161,850 ratings

The Boy in the Iron Box (7 books)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan,

Ralph Ineson (Narrator),

Nina Yndis (Narrator)

3.88 avg rating — 29,073 ratings

Blackwood Tapes (1 book)
by

Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.69 avg rating — 8,982 ratings

Trollhunters (1 book)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

3.69 avg rating — 3,355 ratings

The Strain (Sections) (4 books)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings

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Polls

Preliminary fantasy poll for April BotM

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

14 votes, 25.0%

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro

12 votes, 21.4%

The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

11 votes, 19.6%

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

9 votes, 16.1%

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

8 votes, 14.3%

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

2 votes, 3.6%

56 total votes

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