{"product_id":"9780812998689","title":"Slade House","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas \u003c\/i\u003e| A \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eLiterary Fiction Top 10 Pick for Fall 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKeep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Down 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e for the new millennium, a \u003ci\u003eHansel and Gretel\u003c\/i\u003e for grownups, 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “David Mitchell doesn’t break rules so much as prove them inhibitors to lively, intelligent fiction. \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e is a fractal offshoot of his remarkable \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks, \u003c\/i\u003ean eerie haunted-house tale that takes as much from quantum mechanics as from traditional supernatural lore, a spellbinding chiller about an unnatural greed for life and the arrogance of power.”\u003cb\u003e—Dean Koontz, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e is a deranged garden of forking paths, where all the flowers are poisonous and every escape is choked with thorns. David Mitchell has long been acknowledged as one of the finest—if not \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e finest—literary minds of his generation, but he’s also one of the most suspenseful, and he proves it in every gripping, vertiginous setpiece.”\u003cb\u003e—Joe Hill, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNOS4A2\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHorns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “What can’t David Mitchell do? \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-burning, read-in-one-sitting, at times terrifying novel that does for the haunted-house story what Henry James did for the ghost story in \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e. It has all the intelligence and linguistic dazzle one expects from a David Mitchell novel, but it will also creep the pants off you.”\u003cb\u003e—Adam Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eFortune Smiles \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Orphan Master’s Son,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Sharp, fast, flat-out spooky, \u003ci\u003eSlade House\u003c\/i\u003e is such a hypnotic read that you are likely to miss your subway stop in order to keep reading. And by you, I mean me.”\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Handler, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Lemony Snicket series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fans of Mitchell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Cloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e will recognize the interlocking narrative structure and literary-fantastical bent of this new work.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044902977776,"sku":"9780812998689","price":24.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812998689_p0.jpg?v=1763742740","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812998689","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}