Headscratchers / This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

• David wants to keep his hometown a secret in the first book, so he refers to it as Undisclosed. It doesn't make any sense for him to continue doing this in the sequel because the events he describes are national news. Everyone would already know what town he's talking about.
  • The epilogue explains how it killed maybe 70 people in a small town and, in the end, no-one cared. It's possible the whole event was later erased, leaving behind Wong's memoir of the time, the same way David's toolshed John Dies at the End contained magazines depicting events (like Bill Clinton's assassination) that were expunged from reality, despite the fact that such expunging would logically make the magazines no longer exist.
    • If it were the memoir of a David Wong from a timeline where the events happened, then that means that the town's name was censored by the David Wong who lived in a timeline where the events happened, so that wouldn't actually explain anything.
    • This Headscratcher gets acknowledged in If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe, where news coverage of the town has made it a nationally famous tourist destination. Dave says he's still using the pseudonym so he doesn't contribute even more to its fame.
• If Amy retroactively loses her hand near the end of this book, then how did she open the "phantom limb" door and latch in John Dies at the End and in this book?
  • Well, that's just it, isn't it? It's retroactive, so it's always been that way. Cause and effect don't work in a way we can really understand with them.
  • Maybe that was one of the parts that David made up?
  • This troper remembers that the book describes her using her ghost hand to open the ghost door, and this is where it's established why she lost her hand (the timeline changed so she was in a car accident and lost it years and years ago). Similarly, in JDATE, there's a 5th hostage that unhappens.

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