In Booker nominee David Mitchell’s latest novel Slade House (his second in two years), a pair of twin “atemporals” lure in and feed off the soul of an innocent every nine years, in order to continue their endless existence. Their home, or “lacuna”, is the titular Slade House, “a membrane between worlds” that appears in a dingy little alley in London only every nine years on the last Saturday of October, and only for this specific purpose. Norah and Jonah Grayer are energy vampires, chi cannibals, feeding off the life force and souls of those gifted with “psychovoltage”. But now the ghosts of their victims seem to be lingering, appearing as phantasms to warn the next person to be trapped in...
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