Jason Keith Pargin ( PAR-jin; born January 10, 1975) is an American novelist, humorist, and internet personality. Writing for many years under the pen name David Wong, he founded the humor site Pointless Waste of Time and later served as executive editor of Cracked.com. He is the author of the comic lovecraftian horror series John Dies at the End (2007–present) and the Zoey Ashe series (2015–present), as well as the standalone novel I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom (2024). John Dies at the End was adapted as a feature film in 2012. Pargin retired the David Wong pseudonym in 2020, and since 2022 has produced short-form videos on TikTok and other social media platforms, which he has credited with sustaining his writing career.
