Devil House
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This program will include original music from the author and his bandmate Matt Douglas from The Mountain Goats.
"Darnielle brings a lyrical, literary tone to a novel that's part crime, part horror and wholly original."- Bookpage
From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success—and a movie adaptation—to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell––his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected—back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.
Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Author-musician John Darnielle’s literary thriller uses the trappings of the true-crime genre to take us on a chilling ride. Writer Gage Chandler moves to Milpitas, California, to investigate a double murder that occurred in an abandoned porn shop during the height of the satanic panic. As Gage considers the 1986 case, he’s forced to confront the implications of using other people’s tragedies for his own profit—as well as how the desire to tell a good story can overshadow the real, complicated lives of the people involved. Darnielle crafts a dazzling hall of mirrors, providing a host of unreliable narrators and shocking and poignant revelations at every turn of this carefully designed tale. The author narrates the book himself, punctuating each section with instrumental music from his band, the Mountain Goats. Whether or not you’re a true-crime nut, Devil House is bound to capture your imagination.
Customer Reviews
Devil house
I was upset excited to read this book. I was majorly let down. I would be hooked for a few pages then lost entirely again. I found myself skipping paragraphs so I could Finnish sooner.
Awful
Omg. The worst book I have read in forever. It’s like the guy was stoned when he wrote it and on speed when he reads it. Pointless with a total wet blanket ending.