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 ...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.

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Guillermo del Toro’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 167,785 ratings · 15,387 reviews · 92 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.78 avg rating — 75,159 ratings — published 2009 — 110 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 Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.81 avg rating — 35,060 ratings — published 2010 — 90 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 Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy, #3) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.69 avg rating — 26,332 ratings — published 2011 — 78 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 3.91 avg rating — 13,385 ratings — published 2018 — 38 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
	Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 4,921 ratings — published 2019 — 33 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
	Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 2015 — 31 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
	Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree 4.53 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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
	Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author) , Keith Thompson (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 501 ratings — published 2010 — 4 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 Complete Strain Trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, The Night Eternal 4.04 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2011 — 8 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
	El laberinto del fauno 4.43 avg rating — 237 ratings — 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 Trilogy (3 books)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.77 avg rating — 137,003 ratings

A Estirpe (1 book)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.69 avg rating — 26,332 ratings

Trollhunters (1 book)
by

Guillermo del Toro,

Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

3.62 avg rating — 1,978 ratings

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Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

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“Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water: Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times

tags: rumi-poetry

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“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”
― Guillermo del Toro

tags: life

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Polls

Best Fantasy

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9)

1005 votes 24.6%

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)

975 votes 23.9%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

374 votes 9.2%

Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)

329 votes 8.0%

The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, #12)

282 votes 6.9%

The City & the City

253 votes 6.2%

The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)

229 votes 5.6%

White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, #7)

226 votes 5.5%

Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

213 votes 5.2%

Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)

201 votes 4.9%

4087 total votes

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