Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore

Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore

"The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel."

--Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish

John Scratch, the Devil himself, is the protagonist in this stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and tender novel, as he tricks, teases, and prods America to greatness in the hope of luring his lost love back down to Earth from Heaven. Up Pops the Devil is fiction with humor and heart, the kind of hilarious, off-beat, and original reading experience that fans of Chris Moore, Joe Hill, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jim Shepard would sell their souls for--a brilliant blending of the occult and the outrageous starring the anti-hero of anti-heroes, the one and only Prince of Darkness.

Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Agni, Fiction, and Asimov's have published Michael Poore's short stories. The Year's Best Nonrequired Reading 2012 featured his story The Street of the House of the Sun. The New York Review of Books praised his debut novel, Up Jumps the Devil, as an elegiac masterpiece. Poore and his wife, poet and activist Janine Harrison, live in Highland, Indiana, with their daughter, Jianna.