![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of fiction published in 2022. It is a portrait - sometimes direct, sometimes refracted - of a man realizing that his career, combined with his powerful imagination, has taken him far from his morals." In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews deemed it Darnielle's best novel to date. The New York Times called the book a "confident, creepy novel." NPR said, " Devil House is not a novel about karma or comeuppance. Such is the question at the heart of Devil House, the masterful third novel from Mountain Goats singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The novel debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List on February 13 at #7, staying on the list for two weeks. ![]() The novel is set largely in the California towns of Milpitas and San Luis Obispo, where Darnielle was raised. Devil House is John Darnielles most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a. Darnielle uses metafiction to tell Devil House's story. It depicts true crime author Gage Chandler working on an unsolved double homicide committed in the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, further discussing the moral implications that arise as a result of working in the genre. Devil House is a 2022 novel by American singer-songwriter and author John Darnielle. ![]()
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