I love the format of this book, the way each section is told from the perspective of one of the house's victims. It felt especially intimate that way, making the story personal and a little emotional as well as creepy. 
 I really wonder what it would be like for someone who hasn't read Mitchell's other books, because knowing who (view spoiler)[Marinus (hide spoiler)] was really affected the way I experienced the last section. (I listened to this book on audio, so I might be remembering spellings wrong.) I also wonder whether all the Horology stuff would have sounded like so much nonsense if I hadn't read The Bone Clocks already--because suddenly the last half of Slade House hits it hard, and I feel like it may have seemed abrupt and overly complicated to someone who'd spent the first half of the book thinking it was just a scary story? If I'd been concentrating harder, I could have seen it from a newcomer's perspective as well as my own, but I wasn't. 
 This--like the rest of Mitchell's books--doesn't quite live up to Cloud Atlas for me, but in a way that . . . doesn't bother me, if that makes sense? I just really enjoy being in that world for a while. And this one is much creepier than the others, which would not be my preference in general, but was a pretty cool angle for one book in the collection to take.