Slade House by David MitchellMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dark and disturbing, unsettling - a haunted house to die for. Literally. Slade House got into my head. Riveting, pulsating - watch out for those “atemporals” who pursue eternal life through the theft of innocent souls, and the “horologists” who treat it as a curse. A classic English tale of a haunted house - quite unlike anything I have read before in this genre.
There are instances when one, not sufficiently knowledgeable about the paranormal, requires a dictionary to hand: “The Operandi works provided we recharge the Lacuna every nine years by luring a gullible Engifted into a suitable orison…” Yeah, of course!
Slade House has a real Gothic feel about it, a boundless madness, passages of grotesque horror with inevitable consequences and the message that the defeat of ageing and mortality leads not to heaven but to hell.
Would you want to live forever? Not like this! So - don’t venture behind that black iron door...
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