![]() Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it’s a Dracula for the new millennium, a Hansel and Gretel for grownups, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be.” -Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize PaperbackĪmazon │ Barnes & Noble │ Powell’s │ Books-a-Million │ Bookshop. Intricately connected to David Mitchell’s previous books, this compact fantasy burns with classic Mitchellian energy. “I gulped down this novel in a single evening. I plan to return to its clutches quite often.” -Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl and The Grownup It’s a wildly inventive, chilling, and-for all its otherworldliness-wonderfully human haunted house story. “Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell’s Slade House. If you haven’t yet read Mitchell, choosing this novel just might make a believer of you.” - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Those who do crack it open will find inside a thoroughly entertaining ride full of mind games, unexpected twists, and even a few laughs.” - The Daily Beast One needn’t have read any of Mitchell’s past books to enjoy Slade House. Only to find that you’re already trapped.” -NPR That you’d see through all this B-movie schlock (like creepy portraits, sad ghosts and stairways that go nowhere), find the secret door, and escape. It’s in thinking that you’d be smarter, of course. It’s in seeing different people make the same mistakes over and over again. “The joy in Slade House is in the discovery. the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.” - The Huffington Post “Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “A haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. manically ingenious.” - The Guardian (U.K.) As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.” - San Francisco Chronicle Like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s The Shining, is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. We turn to for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.” - Chicago Tribune Mitchell is something of a magician.” - The Washington Post Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story-as only David Mitchell could imagine it. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late. Every nine years, the house’s residents-an odd brother and sister-extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.ĭown the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews ![]()
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