"Somebody got angry, an argument resulted." What was unusual was the media frenzy that followed. Though it was the first homicide in the town's then-193-year-old history, "It was not an unusual crime," Brookfield police chief John Anderson told The Washington Post in the fall of 1981. Their attempted exit sparked a violent confrontation between Bono and Johnson, during which Johnson fatally stabbed Bono four to five times with a 5-inch pocket knife. Lunch and listening to music led to heavy drinking on Bono’s part, so Glatzel decided it was time to get the girls (ages 9 to 15) out of there. On February 16, 1981, the couple was hanging out at home with Bono and a trio of Johnson’s young relatives.
Devil House is John Darnielle's most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession.(Publisher).In early 1981, 19-year-old arborist Arne Cheyenne Johnson and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Debbie Glatzel, were living in an apartment above Brookfield Kennels, where she worked under their landlord, 40-year-old Alan Bono. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell-his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. 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. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in red. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. Signed by author in ink at front flyleaf. We've listed similar copies below.įirst Edition. We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available.
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