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John Darnielle’s latest novel Devil House looks back to the 'Satanic Panic’ of the 1980s, a period of moral hysteria in the US that he has often touched on musically with his indie rock group The Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s protagonist Gage Chandler is a true-crime writer who is offered the chance to move into a house where a pair of murders occurred; thought to have been the work of disaffected teens.
Devil House is Darnielle’s third novel, his first, Wolf in White Van was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award nominee. His band The Mountain Goats has racked up an impressive 20 studio albums, the latest of which is Dark in Here, released in 2021.
Darnielle lives in North Carolina with his wife and sons.
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