Devil House Devil House

Devil House

A Novel

    • 3.1 • 51 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
January 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
4.8
MB

Customer Reviews

brock_zahler ,

No thank you

Oy. This was not my cup of tea. First and foremost: there is way too much detail in this book about mundane things. It’s one thing to set the scene. It’s another to spend pages describing a mat on the floor or the way someone wrote in a notebook. The story also jumps all over the place and has a number of different narrators. At one point, the narrator is just reading a letter written by someone else, instead of just having the chapter be from that point of view. This is also, in no way shape or form, a horror novel or a true crime novel. It’s essentially a drama about an author. And a disjointed one at that. I guess if you like early Stephen King or other similar very dense writing you may like this. Otherwise, I’d steer clear of

MyrnaBiz ,

Don’t waste your time

Honestly. Don’t.

Kbayham ,

Meandering

Very boring and confusing…Not enticed to read anymore of this author.

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