The house, once an X-rated video store, later became the scene of gruesome double murder. We first meet Chandler when he is stuck in a suburban house in Milpitas, California, in 2006. The novel is divided into seven mirrored sections that tell at least seven stories that are connected through true-crime writer Gage Chandler. It’s also artful, organized in a chiastic structure with a backward-looping narrative characteristic of many classical texts, but not inaccessible. It will appeal to fans of true crime and horror, but it also serves as a critique of violence-fueled content. Like Darnielle’s earlier novels, 2014’s Wolf in White Van, which was nominated for a National Book Award for fiction, and 2017’s Universal Harvester, Devil House isn’t easy to categorize. This stuff was primary in my mind while I was writing.” “There was a basketball court there with a backstop that had a big artwork about people who had died in the local neighborhood,” Darnielle says. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox.
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