A moderately successful true crime writer moves to the small city of Milpitas, California, to research a possibly satanic double homicide that occurred there in the 1980s. In fact, he has moved into ...

John Darnielle has made a career — well, two: he is both a National Book Award-nominated novelist and the lead singer-songwriter of a beloved indie band called the Mountain Goats — out of writing ...

In addition to his prolific output with The Mountain Goats (who released their most recent album, Dark in Here, in June), frontman John Darnielle is a published novelist. His first novel, Wolf in ...

When John Darnielle is not churning out albums with The Mountain Goats—or dispensing advice on podcasts, or chatting with poets—he’s churning out novels. Earlier today, publisher Farrar, Straus and ...

A true-crime author investigates an occult double murder in this metafictional puzzle from the Mountain Goats frontman Devil House begins with a proposal from true crime author Gage Chandler’s editor: ...

John Darnielle’s Devil House confronts something that true crime readers, and authors, would prefer to ignore: the cost of their morbid fascinations. The fourth novel by the author and frontman of the ...

Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but... John Darnielle has made a career — well, two: he is both ...

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