![]() ![]() All will eventually enter the mind-bending architecture of Slade House and engage in psychic warfare with its denizens. First there’s a geeky teen and his mother, then a hard-boiled detective and a crew of New Wave ghost hunters, followed by a backstory-heavy section framed as an interview with an expert on the case. In episodes that begin in 1979 and end in the present, they lure a succession of human hosts into their Wonderland-like abode. ![]() Tucked into an alley behind a British dive bar is the sprawling and mysterious Slade House, inhabited by the soul-eating, shape-shifting Grayer Twins. Unfortunately, it gives Mitchell’s fans far too little of a good thing. Mitchell’s latest novel is his shortest and lightest to date, and it functions as a sort of entry-level offering from the author of hugely ambitious novels such as Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. ![]()
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