Guillermo del Toro Books in Order

This volume presents the complete screenplay of Guillermo del Toro’s film Frankenstein, accompanied by concept art, film stills, and behind the scenes photography. It traces Victor Frankenstein’s journey from forbidden experiments to Arctic reckoning and shows how the classic novel was reshaped for the screen.

Continuing the story, the stranded mercenaries explore the fortress and discover a concealed pit, an iron box wrapped in chains, and a carved boy watching over it all. As night falls, the team realizes they have disturbed something that was never meant to be uncovered.

With radio contact gone and the snow closing in, the survivors begin to sense they are being stalked inside the labyrinth, not just by the wolves outside. Unsettling footprints, whispers, and disappearances turn their search for escape into a desperate attempt not to become prey.

As the horrors inside the fortress grow bolder, the remaining soldiers try to fortify a defensible corner and hold out against both hunger and the presence they have unleashed. Alliances fray as everyone wonders whether survival means resisting the boy or serving him.

This middle chapter finds the mercenary team dealing with the aftermath of their first encounters with the boy in the box and the forces tied to him. The fortress itself seems to wake up around them, blurring the line between the living, the dead, and whatever lies in between.

In the first Boy in the Iron Box novella, a team of mercenaries survives a plane crash in the remote Tian Shan mountains and stumbles onto an ancient stone fortress. Hoping for shelter from the cold and the wolves, they instead find a structure built to trap them.

The final novella draws the long night on the mountain to a close as the truth of the iron box and its occupant is finally faced. The last survivors must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep that power from reaching the wider world.

A rookie FBI agent, Odessa Hardwicke, is forced to shoot her partner when he suddenly turns murderous and seems to shed a shadowy presence as he dies. Suspended and shaken, she turns to enigmatic occult investigator Hugo Blackwood and uncovers entities that ride human hosts like vehicles.

An illustrated companion to the Tales of Arcadia universe, this volume gathers concept art, character profiles, and behind the scenes notes from Trollhunters and its follow up series, highlighting how Arcadia Oaks’ trolls, aliens, and wizards were designed and brought to the screen.

This novel expands the story of Pan’s Labyrinth, following young Ofelia as she navigates both her cruel stepfather’s fascist outpost in 1944 Spain and the secret tasks set by a faun in a ruined maze. Interwoven original fairy tales deepen the world’s myths and monsters.

The final volume under this title gathers an array of stories, essays, and experiments that close out the series on a high note. As in earlier years, the selections show how much vivid, surprising work is being published outside standard classroom anthologies.

Set in 1962 Baltimore, this novel tracks mute janitor Elisa Esposito as she falls in love with a captive amphibian man in a government lab. The story broadens the film, delving into the inner lives of Elisa, her neighbors, and the men trying to control the creature.

Set in the Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia universe, this graphic novel finds Jim Lake Jr. doubting his worth as Trollhunter and as a boyfriend. As trolls recount the struggles of past Trollhunters, Jim learns how others carried the amulet and what kind of hero he wants to be.

In the 2018 collection, Eggers and company assemble writing that reflects a tumultuous year, from sharp political commentary to intimate fiction. The pieces are arranged to keep you turning pages, shifting tone and form so the book never feels predictable.

By 2017 the series has a long tradition, and this volume continues it with another eclectic mix shaped by young volunteer readers. The anthology offers short, memorable works that can be read between classes, on buses, or late at night when you want just one more story.

This edition threads together voices from many backgrounds, bringing together fiction, reportage, and humor that spoke to 2016. It is designed less as a best of canon and more as a yearbook of the pieces that made readers sit up and pay attention.

In quiet San Bernardino, shy teen Jim Sturges Jr. learns that local missing children legends are real when he stumbles into an underground war with flesh eating trolls. Chosen as a Trollhunter, he must balance school, friendship, and first love while facing monsters older than the town itself.

Continuing the graphic adaptation, this volume covers the events of The Fall, following Eph, Setrakian, Fet, and their allies as they search for the Occido Lumen and battle the Master’s growing army. The art leans into ruined streets, stinger attacks, and the city’s slide into night.

In the 2015 volume, Eggers and his teenage editors continue to champion work that falls between categories. The book is ideal for browsing, with each piece chosen for its ability to grab a reader who might think they are not into that kind of writing.

Dedicated to the FX television adaptation of The Strain, this book combines interviews with creators and cast with concept art, makeup tests, and effects breakdowns. It highlights how del Toro’s grotesque vampire designs and the show’s grim New York were developed and refined.

Modeled on Guillermo del Toro’s own battered notebooks, this deluxe sketchbook opens with a short message and sample pages from his journals, then offers heavy, blank paper for your ideas. It is built to lie flat and invite drawings, notes, and strange little inventions.

This hardcover collects the first run of the Strain comics, adapting the opening novel as Ephraim Goodweather boards the dead plane at JFK and New York begins to fall. Dark, kinetic artwork emphasizes the body horror and urban dread of the spreading vampiric plague.

Here the Nonrequired Reading series showcases a fresh batch of stories, essays, and comics that reward curiosity. The 2014 edition leans into variety and surprise, offering everything from quiet personal pieces to big reported features in one generous collection.

Gathered for 2013, these selections range from short stories and memoir to investigative pieces and graphic work. Eggers and his student board highlight writing that feels urgent, inventive, or just too strange and wonderful to leave unread.

This lavish art book reproduces pages from del Toro’s private notebooks and tours his collections, with an extended interview that traces the images, themes, and obsessions behind films like Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and The Shape of Water. It is more creative laboratory than conventional memoir.

Set years after the outbreak, this finale to The Strain trilogy finds vampires ruling a nuclear winter police state and humans reduced to livestock or rebels. Ephraim Goodweather and his allies must decipher the Occido Lumen and confront the Master in one last, brutal gamble.

This volume continues the series' mission by collecting standout writing from magazines, zines, blogs, and more published in 2012. The mix of fiction and nonfiction is curated with young readers in mind, but offers plenty of smart, offbeat work for adults as well.

The 2011 installment of this annual anthology gathers short stories, essays, journalism, comics, and oddities chosen by Eggers and a committee of high school readers. It serves as a snapshot of that year's most surprising, funny, or moving pieces that fell outside standard school assignments.

The second Strain novel follows Ephraim Goodweather, Abraham Setrakian, and their small band as New York collapses under a spreading vampiric plague. While the Master tightens his grip, they race to secure an ancient text, the Occido Lumen, that may reveal how to kill him.

Presented as Emerson Blackwood’s field journal, this illustrated prequel to the film follows a young naturalist who travels the world cataloging dangerous fairy species. His curiosity leads him to a Rhode Island mansion and to creatures that feed on enamel and bone.

When a passenger jet lands at JFK with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC doctor Ephraim Goodweather expects a virus, not a coffin like box and bodies that refuse to stay still. Teaming with survivor Abraham Setrakian, he faces the opening move of a calculated vampire invasion.

Focused on creature design for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, this book showcases concept art, maquettes, and production photos for trolls, goblins, tooth fairies, and other denizens of the troll market. Commentary from del Toro and key artists walks through each monster’s evolution.

An extensive behind the scenes look at Hellboy II: The Golden Army, this art book compiles early sketches, storyboards, set photos, and the full shooting script. It follows the film’s visual evolution from rough ideas to finished props, costumes, and towering fantasy battle scenes.