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Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, youâll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you wonât want to leave. Later, youâll find that you canât. Every nine years, the houseâs residentsâan odd brother and sisterâextend a unique invitation to someone whoâs different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, itâs already too late. . . .
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 storyâas only David Mitchell could imagine it.
Praise for Slade House
âA fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.ââThe Washington Post
âEntertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.ââChicago Tribune
âA ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jacksonâs Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kingâs The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
âLike Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.ââThe Guardian (U.K.)
âA haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.ââPittsburgh Post-Gazette
âTightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . . the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.ââThe Huffington Post
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October 27, 2015 -
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- ISBN: 9781101923702
- File size: 199030 KB
- Duration: 06:54:38
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