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The new book by the much-loved frontman of The Mountain Goats, Darnielle has many engaged fans and readers, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Carmen Maria Machado, and Chris Power. The trade paperback was a steady seller and critical hit, and even more of his fans will flock to this cheaper paperback of the cult classic.

From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he was a child. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and a movie adaptation-to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. B...

From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle, an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That¿s what his mother always told him. Chandler is a true crime writer, with one grisly success ¿ and movie adaptation ¿ to his name, along with a series of subsequent lesser efforts that have paid the bills but not m...

From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and a movie adaptation-to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being o...

From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats' singer/songwriter John Darnielle-"a master at building suspense" (Los Angeles Times)-comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling in Devil House.Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him.Now, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and movie adaptation-to his name, along with a seri...

«Va tutto bene, mamma» dissi. «Ho paura che sarai solo» disse lei, piangeva. «Sarò solo in ogni caso.» Non intendevo dirlo con quel tono ma mi uscì così, e d'altra parte era la verità. Sfigurato da un incidente da quando aveva diciassette anni, Sean Phillips vive nel suo minuscolo appartamento in una cittadina del Sud della California. Isolato tra quelle mura, costruisce mondi possibili, orchestra avventure fantastiche per i tanti sconosciuti ...

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Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van.A New York Times BestsellerA Finalist for the Locus Award (Best Horror Novel) "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America's lost ...

Now a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the National Book Award-"One of the most compelling books of the year' (Blake Butler, Vice). Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, WOLF IN WHITE VAN is 'a stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt' (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice).

Tells the creepy yet poignant tale of a video store clerk who discovers a series of enigmatic and disturbing video messages, that, in turn reveal a devastating and shocking truth.

A terrible event leaves Sean Phillips disfigured. In the weeks following, he creates an adventure game he calls the 'Trace Italian', where players awake in an apocalyptic America and make their way to safety across an irradiated landscape, decision by difficult decision. When a pair of teenagers tries to seek the Trace in the real world their actions prove fatal and Sean is forced to confront the dangers of his creation and his own troubled pa...

An analysis of the classic heavy metal album through a fictional character, blending theory and story.

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A stunning debut novel about fate, chance and fantasy, from the lead singer of Indie Rock band The Mountain Goats

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Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fiction Winner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adults Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's audacious and gripping debut novel Wolf in White Van is a marvel of storytelling brio and genuine literary delicacy. Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury sin...

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A New York Times BestsellerNominated for the National Book Award, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Winner of the Alex Award, "One of the Most Compelling Books of the Year" (Blake Butler, Vice)Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. As the creator of "Trace Italian"-a text-based role-playing game that's played through the mai...

Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both t...