Let’s be glad he did Slade House is a truly scary (not gory – scary) read, one that can be read in one sitting, or savored (if one likes to savor scary tales) in sections – five sections, in fact, set nine years apart. In the end, I couldn’t resist translating it back to more conventional prose, oxygenating it more than Twitter was allowing me to.” “I found that it was asking more questions than it was raising.
“It was writing a long, fast string of pulses rather than looking down on the narrative with a slower, more leisurely view,” Mitchell said in a 2015 interview for the Miami Herald. Slade House grew out of a short story, “The Right Sort”, that he wrote in 2014 on Twitter (that’s right – on Twitter: 280 tweets of 140 words or less) it became the first section of the novel. The answer is Slade House, a slim book housing a horror story that, true to David Mitchell’s style, echoes themes and ideas from earlier works (specifically, The Bone Clocks), twists and turns around itself, and in this case, brings chills to readers. Slade House David Mitchell Random House Release Date: OctoISBN 978-0-8129-9868-9ĭavid Mitchell is an amazing novelist (NPR reviewer Jason Sheehan calls his writing “ beautifully twisty.” I like that.) With unique works such as Cloud Atlasand The Bone Clocks under his belt, the question is, what does he do next?
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