'Darnielle's skilfully refracted presentation. 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.' - Zack Ruskin * San Francisco Chronicle * 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. A triumph from an always exciting storyteller.' - Matthew Jackson * BookPage, starred review * Darnielle steers his dark vessel with dexterity, wit, and stunning inventiveness. This remarkable shapeshifter of a tale changes form, perspective, and even relative truth as it pleases, but never loses its voice. 'With Devil House, his extraordinarily ambitious third novel, Darnielle proves his versatility yet again. It operates perfectly on many levels, resulting in a must-read for true crime addicts and experimental fiction fans alike.' * Publishers Weekly, starred review * This masterwork of suspense is as careful with its sharp takes as it is with the bread crumbs it slowly drops on the way to its stunning end. Darnielle flays the conventions of true crime to reveal the macabre and ordinary brutality behind sensationalised stories of violence. An impressively meta work that delivers the pleasures of true crime while skewering it.' * Kirkus, starred review * he's excellent at getting into the uncomfortable details of abusive homes and how fear sparks an urge to escape both physically and creatively. 'This smart, twisty novel about true crime books and the 1980s 'Satanic panic' is a fine fit for him and his best so far. He evokes a powerful sense of place.' - Chris Power * The Guardian * 'Devil House brilliantly captures the pre-internet spread of news. It's better.' - Dwight Garner * The New York Times * It's never quite the book you think it is. I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense. His third novel, Devil House, is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. 'Quietly, as if stealing in on cat's paws, become, as a novelist, unignorable. 'A metafictional masterpiece that turns the true crime genre inside out to devastating effect.' - Mark Sanderson * The Times *

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