House of Leaves is dizzying in every respect." " chills spark vertigo, its erudition brings on dislocating giddiness.
Ballard, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe." Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent-it renders most other fiction meaningless. "An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book." Danielewski's House of Leaves, the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. "Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. 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. 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. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. 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. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. 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.
Description "A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." - The New York Times
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