House of Leaves

House of Leaves was the debut novel by writer Mark Z. Danielewski. It became a legend before its year 2000 release when it was first released in various formats on the internet, quickly gaining a cult following. On its release it quickly became a best seller.

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The novel deals mostly with a family that moves into a house that is somehow bigger on the inside than on the outside. As it seems to keep inexplicably growing inside, it eventually sucks them into deep and unending caverns, driving them mad and resulting in violence and death. On another level, we find out that this main story was written by a (fictional) blind man named Zampano, who first heard about it through live-action videotapes of the life of the family that moved into the house. And then, yet again, we discover that this blind man is dead, but his memoirs were discovered by a Los Angeles club kid named Johnny (also fictional) who has assembled this book. So, each page is absolutely littered with footnotes and an alternate story line detailing what is progressing in Johnny's life as he is assembling the narrative. Additionally, the text is arranged on the pages in such as way that the method of reading the words mimics the feelings of the characters in the novel. (For example, when a character is running desperately from an unseen enemy, there are only a few words on each page for almost 25 pages, causing the reader's pace to quicken as he tries to discover what will happen next.)

The book was followed by a companion piece called "The Whalestoe Letters", a series of letters written to the character Johnny from within a mental institution, by his mother.

House of Leaves was accompanied by a companion piece, a full length album called "Haunted" and recorded by Danielewski's sister, Ann Danielewski (AKA Poe). The album features a track by the same name as the novel.