House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT'S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE - A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.

''Simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent--it renders most other fiction meaningless." --Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho

"This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore." --Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth--musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies--the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of "the backrooms," and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games.

Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, 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.

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Anonymous
Aug 29, 2024
6/10 stars
An interesting book but it was so long winded.
fressia.bechard
Apr 11, 2024
10/10 stars
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Carol.Ann
Nov 16, 2023
8/10 stars
I just finished reading this one and can hardly form words...I need to talk to someone who's read this book!

A documentary about a house that measures larger inside than it does outside. It shifts and growls. Doors appear where there were none before and when opened, lead down dark hallways that at times are a short 10 feet and at other times they are endless, with a multitude of passages going for miles and miles, shifting in direction, and all in inky darkness.

Multiple narrators and a plethora of footnotes, references, and exhibits. Quite literally, books within this single book.

It was wonderfully WEIRD and intriguing, the format completely unconventional and creative, this is truly a one of kind book. It requires your attention and an open mind. Is it fictional? Is it true? Is it a horror story? (I don't think so). Is it a love story? It has me baffled! I can't wait to discuss it and put together more of the pieces.
AubreyHi
Aug 21, 2023
10/10 stars
Ostensibly a book about a dude who finds a manuscript about a film. House of Leaves is a brilliant experiment. The physical book is art, the many layers of narrative and the uncertainty of each of the narrators and layers of story. It's about Los Angeles, grief, sanity, change, growth and the hollow spaces in our minds.
katiemahlady
Aug 01, 2023
8/10 stars
This book is more of an experience than a read. I was oddly attached to all points of view demonstrated in it. I do not buy that it never existed. It feels a more mysterious phenomenon than that. I prefer to assume it did happen, despite Johnnys inability to recover any information on it. If I assume the house existed, then it allows me to consider what ended up happening to it? Where did it go? Maybe it was a film that Zampano stumbled across. It drove him insane enough that he should write about it and invent interviews and other footnotes to go along with it. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But if I start to second guess it's existence then I'll feel I wasted a read. So I won't :-)

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