Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the 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. A New York Times Bestseller A Finalist for the Locus Award (Best Horror Novel) '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 'Brilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it's nearly impossible to stop reading . . . Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile; it's a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction.' --Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times 'Grows in menace as the pages stack up . . . But] more sensitive than one would expect from a