Hunter Blain asked Hunter Blain:

Does The Preternatural Chronicles get darker as the series progresses?

Hunter Blain Yes. Considerably.

But—and this is important—it doesn't stop being funny.

When The Preternatural Chronicles begins, you're meeting John Cook and learning about this ridiculous supernatural world largely through his eyes. There's violence and darkness from the beginning, but there's also a lot of humor, action, banter, and John being an immature asshole.

As the series progresses, the world gets bigger, the enemies become more dangerous, and John's decisions start carrying much heavier consequences.

Characters change. Relationships change. People get hurt. Not everybody is safe simply because readers like them.

Neither are the characters.

I've always believed that consequences are what make victories actually matter. If readers know I'll never let anything truly terrible happen to the characters they love, then eventually the danger stops feeling dangerous.

So yes, the later Preternatural Chronicles books become darker, more emotional, and much larger in scope than I'm Glad You're Dead.

But John doesn't suddenly become a humorless brooding vampire staring pensively out a rain-covered window.

If anything, the worse things get, the more he needs the humor.

The jokes stay. The consequences just get bigger.

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