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: 3.83 · 186,563 ratings · 17,473 reviews · 104 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1) by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan 3.78 avg rating — 80,462 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 — 36,212 ratings — published 2010 — 91 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 — 27,350 ratings — published 2011 — 80 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 3.90 avg rating — 15,641 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 9,272 ratings — published 2019 — 45 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 3.72 avg rating — 3,065 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 2,328 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree 4.53 avg rating — 1,235 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) 3.99 avg rating — 534 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 4.07 avg rating — 396 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

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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 — 144,406 ratings

Blackwood Tapes (1 book)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Chuck Hogan

3.72 avg rating — 3,062 ratings

Trollhunters (1 book)
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Guillermo del Toro,

Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

3.64 avg rating — 2,326 ratings

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

Chuck Hogan

3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings

Mexican Gothic begins when happily ever after turns into a nightmare. The story unfolds with the Taboada family receiving a mysterious letter from...

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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)

1003 votes 24.7%

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

968 votes 23.8%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

372 votes 9.1%

Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)

327 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)

228 votes 5.6%

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

225 votes 5.5%

Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #17)

212 votes 5.2%

Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)

198 votes 4.9%

4068 total votes

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