This Year

Praise for Devil House:

‘Quietly, as if stealing in on cat’s paws, [John Darnielle has] become, as a novelist, unignorable … His third novel, Devil House, is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense … It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.’

Praise for Devil House:

‘Masterful … Often tense, lyrically dazzling, and iced with a thick layer of irreverent affinity for the fringes of pop culture, the result is top-notch storytelling … Suspenseful, brilliant, and chaotically addicting, Devil House triumphs as a page-turning metafictional treatise on the power of narratives cloaked in the trappings of a certifiable true crime classic.’

Praise for Universal Harvester:

‘A captivating exploration of the vagaries of memory and inertia in middle America … [Universal Harvester] serves as a stellar encore after the success of [Darnielle‘s] debut novel, Wolf in White Van … Beneath the eerie gauze of this book, I felt an undercurrent of humanity and hope.’

Praise for Universal Harvester:

‘A slow-burn mystery/thriller whose characters are drawn together by an eerie discovery … Darnielle adeptly juggles multiple stories that collide with chaotic consequences somewhere in the middle of nowhere.’

Praise for Wolf in White Van:

‘A delicately written first novel, poignant and sinister, that probes the creative and destructive potential of the imagination.’

John Darnielle is the author of the novels Devil House, Universal Harvester, and Wolf in White Van, all three New York Times bestsellers. Wolf in White Van was a National Book Award nominee and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction. Universal Harvester was a finalist for the Locus Award. Darnielle lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons when he’s not on the road touring with his band the Mountain Goats.