Club Devil House is not a novel about karma or comeuppance. this is a story about what cant be told because the nature of telling selects some truths while setting others aside.- Slate What happens to the story what happens to the teller what happens to the people? Darnielle renders this dilemma-and the bad-taste curiosity that compels people to read and write true crime despite reservations-with such depth and clarity that it feels like hes somehow culpable too. Los Angeles Times Devil House can be read as an indictment of the true crime genre, specifically of the way stories are concocted to explain often-unfathomable tragedies, and of how some stories take precedence over others regardless of their truth. Zack Ruskin, San Francisco Chronicle Devil House has all the gross-out hallmarks of horror and true crime while also questioning the moral implications of the genres.

Dwight Garner, The New York Times Suspenseful, brilliant and chaotically addicting, Devil House triumphs as a page-turning metafictional treatise on the power of narratives cloaked in the trappings of a certifiable true crime classic. I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense.Its never quite the book you think it is. Review Quotes Devil House is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. 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 spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.

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. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell-his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. 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. 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. 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. About the Book An epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling- Book Synopsis INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Its never quite the book you think it is.

Devil house by john darnielle