The first installment of the macabre Iremonger Trilogy, Heap House introduces the reader to a fascinating world whose inhabitants come alive on the page?and in Edward Carey?s fantastical illustrations. The extensive Iremonger family of Filching ("kings of mildew, moguls of mould") has made a fortune from junk, building a dark and sprawling mansion from salvage scrap. Heap House is surrounded by the dangerous, noxious, shifting Heaps that stretch beyond...