The devil house book6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Like the author’s previous book Universal Harvester, this isn’t easy to digest. It gave me different perspectives on the stories. But I thought it was interesting how Part 7 is the other side of Part 1, Part 6 of 2, and so forth. I did find this part to be the weakest because it feels unfinished in its execution. It’s reflected in the two cases and particularly in Part 4 an interlude of an Old English tale about kings that links to the writer’s royalty lineage. The running theme here is the use of “castle doctrine” where a person has the legal right to use deadly force to defend their home. Both crime scenes are gruesome and elaborately told. ![]() It’s mainly about two murder cases – a female teacher convicted of murdering two students in her house, and the unsolved murders of a landlord and a prospective house buyer in an abandoned adult shop. “What happens when somebody tells a story that has real people in it? What happens to the story what happens to the teller what happens to the people?”ĭevil House is a multilayered metafiction told in a nonlinear format divided into 7 parts. ![]() His research leads him back to his previous book about a local murder, and forces him to examine his own involvement. A true-crime writer moves into the notorious “Devil House” where two people were killed, reportedly by teens affiliated with a Satanic cult. ![]()
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