This dream is quickly broken by the Grayers, who reveal themselves to be twin siblings and carnivorous Anchorites, beings who steal the souls of certain people to maintain their youth. After being invited into the house, he experiences more hallucinations before finding himself at his father's lodge in Rhodesia. Nathan begins hallucinating strange people and other visions and becomes worried that the Valium he took from his mother is having a bad effect. Nathan is quickly acquainted with her son Jonah, and the two spend the afternoon in the garden of Slade House whilst Norah Grayer entertains Nathan’s mother. In 1979, Nathan Bishop and his mother are invited to the house of the respected Lady Grayer. Set between the late seventies and the present, the novel explores the mysterious Slade House and a number of characters who are drawn to it. Slade House originated as a Twitter story which was then developed into a full novel, and is a companion to The Bone Clocks. Slade House is the seventh novel by British novelist David Mitchell.
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