John Darnielle

3 Series

John Darnielle is an American author known for his horror novels and a primary member of the band The Mountain Goats. He is also a podcaster and activist. Darnielle resides in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, Lalitree, and their two sons.

In "Wolf in White Van," John Darnielle introduces Sean Phillips, a man isolated by a disfiguring injury since age 17. From his apartment in southern California, Sean creates Trace Italian, a text-based, role-playing game played by mail. Players worldwide navigate his intricately designed, post-apocalyptic American landscape, seeking refuge. Through this game, Sean explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, offering both dark and bright possibilities.

Standalone Novels

Wolf in White Van

(2014)

Universal Harvester

(2017)

Devil House

(2022)

33⅓

The Smiths' Meat is Murder

(2003)(By: Joe Pernice)

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

(2003)(By: Andy Miller)

Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis

(2003)(By: Warren Zanes)

Neil Young's Harvest

(2003)(By: Sam Inglis)

Love's Forever Changes

(2003)(By: Andrew Hultkrans)

Abba's Abba Gold

(2004)(By: Elisabeth Vincentelli)

Prince's Sign 'O' the Times

(2004)(By: Michaelangelo Matos)

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico

(2004)(By: Joe Harvard)

Unknown Pleasures

(2004)(By: Chris Ott)

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland

(2004)(By: John M. Perry)

The Replacements' Let It Be

(2004)(By: Colin Meloy)

James Brown's Live at the Apollo

(2004)(By: Douglas Wolk)

Jethro Tull's Aqualung

(2004)(By: Allan F. Moore)

The Beatles' Let It Be

(2004)(By: Steve Matteo)

Radiohead's OK Computer

(2004)(By: Dai Griffiths)

Pet Sounds

(2005)(By: Jim Fusilli)

The Ramones' Ramones

(2005)(By: Nicholas Rombes)

Led Zeppelin IV

(2005)(By: Erik Davis)

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street

(2005)(By: Bill Janovitz)

Grace

(2005)(By: Daphne A. Brooks)

Armed Forces

(2005)(By: Franklin Bruno)

Murmur

(2005)(By: J. Niimi)

Low

(2005)(By: Hugo Wilcken)

Endtroducing

(2005)(By: Eliot Wilder)

Kick Out the Jams

(2005)(By: Don McLeese)

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA

(2005)(By: Geoffrey Himes)

The Band's Music From Big Pink

(2005)(By: John Niven)

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

(2005)(By: Kim Cooper)

The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses

(2006)(By: Alex Green)

Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On

(2006)(By: Miles Marshall Lewis)

The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique

(2006)(By: Dan LeRoy)

Doolittle

(2006)(By: Ben Sisario)

Nirvana's In Utero

(2006)(By: Gillian G. Gaar)

Highway 61 Revisited

(2006)(By: Mark Polizzotti)

33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1

(2006)(By: DavidBarker)

The Who's The Who Sell Out

(2006)(By: John Dougan)

Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand

(2006)(By: Marc Woodworth)

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless

(2006)(By: Mike McGonigal)

The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs

(2006)(By: L.D. Beghtol)

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

(2006)(By: Eric Weisbard)

Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life

(2006)(By: Zeth Lundy)

Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark

(2006)(By: SeanNelson)

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation

(2007)(By: Matthew Stearns)

The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers

(2007)(By: Ric Menck)

Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica

(2007)(By: Kevin Courrier)

The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime

(2007)(By: Michael T. Fournier)

A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

(2007)(By: Shawn Taylor)

Brian Eno's Another Green World

(2007)(By: Geeta Dayal)

Steely Dan's Aja

(2007)(By: Don Breithaupt)

Rid of Me

(2007)(By: Kate Schatz)

PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story

(2007)(By: Kate Schatz)

U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall

(2007)(By: Stephen Catanzarite)

Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister

(2007)(By: Scott Plagenhoef)

Pink Moon

(2007)(By: Amanda Petrusich)

Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

(2007)(By: Carl Wilson)

Swordfishtrombones

(2007)(By: David Smay)

Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats

(2007)(By: Drew Daniel)

Master of Reality

(2008)

Patti Smith's Horses

(2008)(By: Philip Shaw)

Slayer's Reign in Blood

(2008)(By: D.X. Ferris)

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future

(2008)(By: Dan Kois)

Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights

(2008)(By: Hayden Childs)

The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen

(2008)(By: Bob Gendron)

The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

(2008)(By: Jeffrey T. Roesgen)

Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin

(2008)(By: Bob Proehl)

Wire's Pink Flag

(2008)(By: Wilson Neate)

Big Star's Radio City

(2008)(By: Bruce Eaton)

Elliott Smith's XO

(2009)(By: Matthew LeMay)

Illmatic

(2009)(By: Matthew Gasteier)

Madness' One Step Beyond...

(2009)(By: Terry Edwards)

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka

(2009)(By: MarkRichardson)

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

(2009)(By: Rob Trucks)

AC DC's Highway To Hell

(2010)(By: Joe Bonomo)

Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

(2010)(By: Christopher R. Weingarten)

Pavement's Wowee Zowee

(2010)(By: Bryan Charles)

Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle

(2010)(By: Richard Henderson)

Slint's Spiderland

(2010)(By: Scott Tennent)

Radiohead's Kid A

(2010)(By: Marvin Lin)

Johnny Cash's American Recordings

(2011)(By: Tony Tost)

Ween's Chocolate and Cheese

(2011)(By: Hank Shteamer)

The Rolling Stones' Some Girls

(2011)(By: Cyrus R.K. Patell)

Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine

(2011)(By: Daphne Carr)

Talking Heads' Fear of Music

(2011)(By: Jonathan Lethem)

Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me

(2011)(By: Nick Attfield)

Television's Marquee Moon

(2011)(By: Bryan Waterman)

Portishead's Dummy

(2011)(By: R.J. Wheaton)

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace

(2011)(By: Aaron Cohen)

Dangerous

(2012)(By: Susan Fast)

Flood

(2013)(By: Elizabeth Sandifer,S. Alexander Reed)

Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson

(2013)(By: Darran Anderson)

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

(2014)(By: Kirk Walker Graves)

Sigur Rós's

(2014)(By: Ethan Hayden)

Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet

(2014)(By: Phillip Crandall)

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II

(2014)(By: Marc Weidenbaum)

Entertainment!

(2014)(By: Kevin J.H. Dettmar)

Smile

(2014)(By: Luis A. Sanchez)

Blank Generation

(2014)(By: Pete Astor)

J Dilla's Donuts

(2014)(By: Jordan Ferguson)

Oasis' Definitely Maybe

(2014)(By: Alex Niven)

Exile in Guyville

(2014)(By: Gina Arnold)

The Grey Album

(2014)(By: Charles Fairchild)

Beat Happening

(2015)(By: Bryan C. Parker)

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

(2015)(By: Michael Stewart Foley)

Freedom of Choice

(2015)(By: Fred Armisen,Evie Nagy)

Workingman's Dead

(2015)(By: Buzz Poole)

A Live One

(2015)(By: Walter Holland)

Metallica

(2015)(By: David Masciotra)

Bitches Brew

(2015)(By: George Grella Jr.)

Parallel Lines

(2016)(By: Kembrew McLeod)

The Geto Boys

(2016)(By: Rolf Potts)

Psychocandy

(2016)(By: Paula Mejia)

Hangin' Tough

(2016)(By: Rebecca Wallwork)

Dig Me Out

(2016)(By: Jovana Babovic)

Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live

(2016)(By: Emily J. Lordi)

Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

(2017)(By: Clare Nina Norelli)

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

(2017)(By: Michael Blair)

Uptown Saturday Night

(2017)(By: William Fulton,Patrick Rivers)

The Suburbs

(2017)(By: Eric Eidelstein)

Bob Mould's Workbook

(2017)(By: Walter Biggins,Daniel Couch)

Homogenic

(2017)(By: Emily MacKay)

The Raincoats

(2017)(By: Jenn Pelly)

Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

(2018)(By: Ronen Givony)

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

(2018)(By: Joe Gross)

Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera

(2018)(By: Rien Fertel)

Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow

(2018)(By: Samantha Bennett)

Tori Amos's Boys for Pele

(2018)(By: Amy Gentry)

dc Talk’s Jesus Freak

(2018)(By: Will Stockton,D. Gilson)

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand

(2019)(By: Matthew Frye Jacobson)

Tom Petty’s Southern Accents

(2019)(By: Michael Washburn)

The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las

(2019)(By: Ada Wolin)

Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible

(2019)(By: David Evans)

Massive Attack’s Blue Lines

(2019)(By: Ian Bourland)

The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas

(2019)(By: Bryan Wagner)

Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

(2019)(By: Roshanak Kheshti)

Murder Ballads

(2020)(By: Santi Elijah Holley)

D’Angelo’s Voodoo

(2020)(By: Faith Pennick)

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs

(2020)(By: Glenn Hendler)

Elton John's Blue Moves

(2020)(By: Matthew Restall)

Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall

(2020)(By: Manuel Betancourt)

Suicide's Suicide

(2020)(By: Andi Coulter)

Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

(2020)(By: Ray Padgett)

Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope

(2020)(By: Ayanna Dozier)

Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis

(2020)(By: Eric Wolfson)

24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth

(2020)(By: Zach Schonfeld)

Carole King's Tapestry

(2021)(By: Loren Glass)

Pearl Jam's Vs.

(2021)(By: Clint Brownlee)

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time

(2021)(By: Alex Jeffery)

Duran Duran's Rio

(2021)(By: Annie Zaleski)

Roxy Music's Avalon

(2021)(By: Simon A. Morrison)

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

(2021)(By: Colin Fleming)

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid

(2021)(By: Alyssa Favreau)

Lyric and Coloratura Arias

(2021)(By: Ginger Dellenbaugh)

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly

(2022)(By: Sequoia Maner)

Britney Spears's Blackout

(2022)(By: Natasha Lasky)

Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World

(2022)(By: Dwight E. Brooks)

Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden

(2022)(By: Brittnay L. Proctor)

Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle

(2023)(By: Selena Chambers)

Madvillain's Madvillainy

(2023)(By: Will Hagle)

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

(2023)(By: William L. Weir)

Body Count

(2023)(By: Ben Apatoff)

Erotica

(2023)(By: Michael Dango)

John Cale's Paris 1919

(2025)(By: Mark Doyle)

Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll

(2025)(By: Chris Tapley)

The B-52s' Cosmic Thing

(2025)(By: Pete Crighton)

Anthologies

Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and the Landscape Beyond

(2010)

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