John Darnielle has made a career — well, two: he is both a National Book Award-nominated novelist and the lead singer-songwriter of a beloved indie band called the Mountain Goats — out of writing ...

A moderately successful true crime writer moves to the small city of Milpitas, California, to research a possibly satanic double homicide that occurred there in the 1980s. In fact, he has moved into ...

In addition to his prolific output with The Mountain Goats (who released their most recent album, Dark in Here, in June), frontman John Darnielle is a published novelist. His first novel, Wolf in ...

A true-crime author investigates an occult double murder in this metafictional puzzle from the Mountain Goats frontman Devil House begins with a proposal from true crime author Gage Chandler’s editor: ...

When John Darnielle is not churning out albums with The Mountain Goats—or dispensing advice on podcasts, or chatting with poets—he’s churning out novels. Earlier today, publisher Farrar, Straus and ...

In the late ’80s, when I was a film-crazy teenager with a freshly laminated driver’s license in Marietta, Georgia, much of my idle time was spent trolling through the horror and “miscellaneous” aisles ...

Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but... John Darnielle has made a career — well, two: he is both ...