Slade House
- Author David Mitchell
- Narrator Tania Rodrigues, Thomas Judd
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 7 hours and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic horror and ghost stories, Fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction, Science fiction.
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What to expect
Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.
Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.
A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.
This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...
(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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Ingenious . . . a deliciously creepy story to be read for plot and for pleasure, with your heart racing, and your eyes involuntarily skipping forwards to find out what happens
Sunday Times -
Packed with heady ideas and pulsing with dark energy . . . both dazzlingly inventive and compulsively readable
Financial Times -
An elegant fright-fest of the highest order . . . Mitchell masterfully, humorously, combines the classic components of a scary story – old house, dark alley, missing persons – with a realism, when describing the lives of the victims, that is pacy, funny and true
The Times -
A clever and deep-frozenly chilling Gothic horror story . . . genuinely good, genuinely scary
Daily Mail -
Mitchell seamlessly brings together his clashing parallel realities through wordplay so dazzling it seems to defy its own gravitational rules
Metro -
Chilling and dazzling . . . but the real skill of the book is in its emotional impact. Mitchell makes you care about each of the narrators
Scotland on Sunday
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