David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
“A fiendish delight . . . [David] Mitchell is something of a
magician.”—The Washington Post
“Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for
brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for
language.”—Chicago Tribune
“A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House or the
Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s 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.”—San
Francisco Chronicle
“Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.”—The
Guardian (U.K.)
“Slade House, the tricky new confection by David Mitchell, is a
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.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human, Slade House is
the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.”—The Huffington
Post
“The joy in Slade House is in the discovery. It’s in seeing
different people make the same mistakes over and over again. . . .
It’s in thinking that you’d be smarter, of course. 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.
Only to find that you’re already trapped.”—NPR
“Diabolically entertaining . . . dark, thrilling, and fun . . . One
needn’t have read any of Mitchell’s past books to enjoy Slade
House. 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
“A smart, spooky thrill ride . . . If you haven’t yet read
Mitchell, choosing this novel just might make a believer of
you.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as
I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell’s Slade
House. It’s a wildly inventive, chilling, and—for all its
otherworldliness—wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to
return to its clutches quite often.”—Gillian Flynn, #1 New
York Times bestselling author of Gone
Girl and The Grownup
“I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Intricately
connected to David Mitchell’s previous books, this compact fantasy
burns with classic Mitchellian energy. 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
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