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House Of Leaves: the prizewinning and terrifying cult classic that will turn everything you thought you knew about life (and books!) upside down Paperback – 6 July 2000
Mark Z Danielewski (Author) See search results for this author |
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Discover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside that still inspires devotion among an army of fans... Experimental in terms of design, typography, structure and content, this is a fully immersive and novel reading experience you won't be able to forget. Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Black Mirror, Stranger Things and IT.
'House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark' - Guardian
'At once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read' - Observer
'Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent' - BRET EASTON ELLIS
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'I've never read anything like it' - 5 STARS
'Strange, highly addictive and slowly creepy' - 5 STARS
'A book like no other' - 5 STARS
'The creativity and originality is astonishing' - 5 STARS
'Unreservedly recommended' - 5 STARS
'Buy it, read it, and explore it' - 5 STARS
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A young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane.
But something is terribly wrong - their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility.
What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane, unveiling a thrilling and terrifying history.
Loose sheets, stained napkins and crammed notebooks prove to be far more than the ramblings of a crazy old man . . .
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Winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award
- Print length736 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date6 July 2000
- Dimensions18.01 x 3.99 x 23.39 cm
- ISBN-10038560310X
- ISBN-13978-0385603102
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A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distresingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe. I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover? -- Bret Easton Ellis
Genre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read. ― Observer
This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down or persuasively conclude reading. In fact, when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages. ― Jonathan Lethem
Superbly inventive . . . a rare debut: genuinely exciting. ― Guardian
There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish. ― Independent
Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope. ― Mail on Sunday
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Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.
The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
From the Back Cover
Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampanr, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him...
Immensely imaginative. Impossible to put down. Impossible to forget. House of Leaves is thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have ever read before.
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- Publisher : Doubleday; 2nd ed. edition (6 July 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 736 pages
- ISBN-10 : 038560310X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385603102
- Dimensions : 18.01 x 3.99 x 23.39 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 7,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 17 in Mystical Poetry
- 57 in Horror Fantasy
- 79 in Paranormal Ghost Romance (Books)
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About the author

Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword, which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT.
His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his work has been the focus of university classes and literary events. In 2015, Danielewski's THROWN, a reflection on Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 2, was displayed at the Guggenheim Museum during its Storylines exhibition.
Between 2015-2017, Pantheon released five volumes of The Familiar, each an 880-page installment about a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten and sets off a chain reaction with global consequences. With the release of the series, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus."
His latest release, The Little Blue Kite, will be out on November 5, 2019, accompanied by a US tour.
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I would recommend always checking to see that the title includes 'full colour edition' to avoid disappointment. If you're not fussed about the detail, then this is a perfectly fine version to get if the others run out of stock; but ideally, search for the full colour, or 2-colour versions online for the full experience.
Don't fall for the hype. It's simply a well written, average story, not scary but interesting. And relatively educational to boot.
I'm glad that I've actually read it, at least 99.99% of it, (I missed out one and a half of the tedious lists) but I don't know if I'll ever read it again.
It's clearly gimmicky, reading back to front, upside down and all that, and mostly that works, but sometimes it really doesn't.
It suffers from an excessive number of footnotes that I learned to despise, as they tended to detract from the reading experience. It's like going to a Beethoven concert and having the orchestra stop every minute or so while the conductor explains why a certain note was played, or the history behind woodwind instruments, or, hey, here's a long list of classical composers.
My advice, read the book and ignore a couple of long lists, you'll know them when you see them, and forget about any footnotes that don't look remotely interesting. Of which there are a copious amount.
But like I said, I'm glad I read it. Something to talk about.....should I ever meet anyone else who's read it.
Without spoiling anything I can say I've never read anything like it. It's hard to tell where the narration ends and the story begins.
A word of warning though - it is a very dark book. I would not reccomend this to anyone feeling low as it I personally found it quite depressing.
Actually I felt that this worked, but I also found this was quite a hard work book to read and much thicker than expected – for some reason I thought it would be a slim volume. That’s not a bad thing, just worth noting you probably have to be in the mood to read this not if you are looking for a light read.
Part academic paper, part horror story, multilayered description of escalating madness. Lots of footnotes! House of leaves is strange, highly addictive and slowly creepy. This is a book that sticks with you and I’m glad I read it.
My recommendation Read it. You might hate it or not get it. But it’s worth the risk.
My advice is to steer away from this edition; find the hardback one somewhere (even in the US Amazon store if necessary) if you want to get the intended experience out of this book