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This book is a wonderful telling in the horror genre, with Guillermo del Toro as the expert storyteller. I'm not familiar with co-author Chuck Hogan, but Hogan's 'Prince of Thieves: A Novel,' was rated as one of that year's ten best novels by Stephen King. Guillermo del Toro I'm more familiar with through his directorship of the movies, 'Hell Boy,' and 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It was with the movie, 'Pan's Labyrinth,' that I first became interested in del Toro's work. 'Pan's Labyrinth,' is one of my all time favorite movies. But this is a review of 'The Strain.' The book starts off with the legend of Jusef Sardu as told by the grandmother of Abraham Setrakian, one of the book's main characters. The reader is introduced to the mythology of Sardu as a giant of a young man with weak muscles. Sardu's nobleman father decides to take him on a hunting trip with the belief that eating the meat of wolves will cure his weak muscles. During the course of the hunting trip, Sardu's relatives and father disappear, until only Sardu is left. Sardu discovers their bodies at the entrance to an underground cave and returns that night to face whatever demons he believes are responsible for their murders. Eleven weeks later Sardu returns home, and the reader is left to speculate upon what happened in the cave. Sardu is now a different man.