That's more warning than victims get in David Mitchell's devilishly fun new novel, which clawed its way to life from the ectoplasm of Twitter. Just in time for Halloween, "Slade House" opens its ...

A novel can take many forms, as David Mitchell well knows ... Unfortunately, Mitchell's latest, "Slade House," is not such a book, and its utter derailment after a wonderfully spooky first ...

Reading David Mitchell’s new novel Slade House in one guilty-pleasured gulp is tempting. Coming quickly on the heels of The Bone Clocks, his epic 600-plus-pages 2014 Booker Prize nominee ...

He's in Ireland, he says, it's sunny and bright, and more than once you have to remind yourself, This is David Mitchell. It's a very compact story. Slade House has elements of mystery ...

One of the joys of reading David Mitchell’s fiction is ... If The Bone Clocks was Mitchell’s Star Wars, then Slade House is his The Empire Strikes Back, an altogether darker, more disturbing ...

To call British novelist David Mitchell’s work ambitious ... October is the perfect time for Slade House, since it marries Mitchell’s penchant for time-hopping tales with a creepy setting ...

David Mitchell’s Slade House joins Guillermo del Toro’s film Crimson Peak and Peter James’s thriller The House on Cold Hill, being set in a mansion which, initially seductive, proves ...

Twitter seems like the kind of place a novelist like David Mitchell would feel at home ... didn’t want to repeat himself—the Nathan of Slade House now seems to be on the autism spectrum ...

(It occurs to me that maybe what keeps Mitchell's characters from deteriorating into stock characters is that he lets each share his instinct for metaphor.) All told, inside Slade House ...

“This door is not in use,” reads a small sign. “Please use the main entrance to the left of the House (through the gate).” It’s the kind of seemingly benign note a character might find ...