{"product_id":"9780594682288","title":"Slade House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas \u003c\/i\u003e| \u003cb\u003eNamed One of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown 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. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won’t want to leave. Later, you’ll find that you can’t. 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. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shining,\u003c\/i\u003e [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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(U.K.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . . the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Diabolically entertaining . . . dark, thrilling, and fun . . . a thoroughly entertaining ride full of mind games, unexpected twists, and even a few laughs.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell’s \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Gillian Flynn, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGone Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Grownup\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it’s a \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e for the new millennium, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be.”\u003cb\u003e—Anthony Doerr, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Mitchell doesn’t break rules so much as he proves them to be inhibitors to lively intelligent fiction.”\u003cb\u003e—#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Dean Koontz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026995888368,"sku":"9780594682288","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780594682288_p0.jpg?v=1763722783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780594682288","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}