John Darnielle's new novel is a riveting metafictional meditation on true crime stories

As a storyteller, John Darnielle has always been drawn to outsiders. Whether in his preceding novels Wolf In White Van and Universal Harvester, or in verse with his band the Mountain Goats, Darnielle often targets the depths of his empathy on those who society often deems as lepers or pariahs the goths and the metalheads, the nerdy RPG fantasy geeks, the human beings living on the streets or struggling with addiction. — Read the rest