![]() ![]() Like its predecessor, Universal Harvester, Devil House presents as horror but spirals off, with mixed results, in several unexpected directions: it’s a critique of true crime and the impulses that inspire it, a fragmented character study and a metafictional puzzle. This sets the stage for the third novel by American musician and author John Darnielle. Why doesn’t Gage move in, investigate the murders and write his next book? The deadly weapon was a sword, and this was 1987: the peak of the satanic panic, when devil worship was supposedly rife and lurking in the grooves of every heavy metal record. Abandoned after a spell as a pornographic book and video shop, it subsequently became the site of a little known, possibly occult double murder. D evil House begins with a proposal from true crime author Gage Chandler’s editor: a property is for sale in the California town of Milpitas. ![]()
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