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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late ’80s, when I was a film-crazy teenager with a freshly laminated driver’s license in Marietta, Georgia, much of my idle time was spent trolling through the horror and “miscellaneous” aisles ...

For nearly 30 years, the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle has been writing poignant and sharp short stories and recording them in song form. Darnielle was one of the best writers in America long before ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The House of the Devil is like a mediocre haunted house. You meander through expecting something ...