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Devil's house novel6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Recommended By Keith M. Devil House is a gripping read that raises important questions about what the true costs of salacious stories are, and who pays them. ![]() Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of fiction published in 2022. John Darnielle has created an intriguing, multilayered novel that interrogates the true crime genreās highest aspirations and basest instincts. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() Darnielle uses metafiction to tell Devil House's story. The center and main narrator of the novel is Gage, an author whos moved to Milpitas, California, as a kind of stunt: He plans to live on the site of an. 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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