Two days later, another customer returns another tape, and registers the same odd complaint: “There’s another movie on this tape.” “There’s something on it,” she says as she leaves the store, though she doesn’t elaborate. But when a local school teacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie, starring Boris Karloff-the transaction jolts Jeremy out of his routine. The job is good enough for Jeremy, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a carwreck. It’s the late ’90s, and you can find Jeremy Heldt at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa-a small town in the center of the state. “The most unsettling book I’ve read since House of Leaves.” more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread.” -Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) beyond worthwhile it’s a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction. Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent it’s nearly impossible to stop reading.

'A moving, beautifully etched picture of America’s lost and profoundly lonely.' -Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature So begins Universal Harvester, t he haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van.Ī Finalist for the Locus Award (Best Horror Novel) Two days later, Lindsey Redinius brings back She?s All That, a new release, and complains that there?s something wrong with it: ?There?s another movie on this tape.Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. It?s good enough for Jeremy: It?s a job it?s quiet and regular he gets to watch movies he likes the owner, Sarah Jane it gets him out of the house, where he and his dad try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck.īut when Stephanie Parsons, a local schoolteacher, comes in to return her copy of Targets, starring Boris Karloff?an old movie, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store?she has an odd complaint: ?There?s something on it,? she says, but doesn?t elaborate. But there are regular customers, a predictable rush in the late afternoon.

This is the late 1990s, pre-DVD, and the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut. It?s a small town?the first ?a? in the name is pronounced ay?smack in the center of the state. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut

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