Universal Harvester

Resumen del libro

From the cult author of Wolf in White Van comes a horror- infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town; Clerks meets Cormac McCarthy. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, and it gets him out of the house.

But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets, she has an odd complaint: 'There's something on it,' she says. Two days later, another customer brings back She's All That and complains that something is wrong: 'There's another movie on this tape.' Curious, Jeremy takes a look. And what he sees on the videos is so strange and disturbing that it propels him out of his comfortable routine and into a search for the tapes' creator.

As the once-peaceful fields and barns of the Iowa landscape begin to seem sinister and threatening, Jeremy must come to terms with a truth that is as devastatingly sad as it is shocking.

Biografía del autor

JOHN DARNIELLE nació en 1967 en Bloomington, Indiana; aunque pasó su infancia y juventud en California. Es principalmente conocido por ser el compositor, guitarrista y vocalista de The Mountain Goats, banda en activo desde 1991 con la que ha publicado más de seiscientas canciones. Está considerado uno de los mejores letristas americanos de todos los tiempos. Su primera novela, Wolf in White Van (Lobo en la camioneta blanca, Contra, 2015) resultó finalista del National Book Award y el Alex Awards; y el New York Times lo eligió como uno de los mejores libros del año. La Casa del Diablo es una narración épica y apasionante sobre el asesinato, la verdad y los peligros de contar historias. Actualmente es candidata al Premio Edgar 2023 a mejor novela.