![]() ![]() The few choice bits were tantalizing enough – dead bodies atop a pyre of pornography, cryptograms in graffiti, the spectre of teenage Satanic rites jolting a sleepy old town awake. What begins as a conventional story about an author’s research into a 20-year-old murder mystery becomes a breathtaking, metafictional interrogation of the ‘‘truth’’ in true crime.Īt the suggestion of his editor, true-crime writer Gage Chandler heads to Milpitas in California to research and write about the murder of a landlord and property developer at the alleged hands of disgruntled teenagers during the Satanic panic of the mid-’80s. His latest book, Devil House, also doesn’t conform to a recognisable shape. ![]() His 2014 debut, Wolf in White Van, was nominated for the National Book Award, while his sophomore effort, Universal Harvester, is a brilliant, unclassifiable story that exists in the liminal space between multiple genres. Over the last several years, John Darnielle, the founding (and oftentimes sole) member of the band The Mountain Goats, has been carving out a career as an acclaimed novelist. ![]()
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