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, author of Motherless Brooklyn " tour de force first novel. What could have been a perfectly entertaining bit of literary horror is instead an assault on the nature of story." - Spin "This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down, or persuasively conclude reading. House of Leaves is dizzying in every respect." -Entertainment Weekly "Stunning. Ballard, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe." -Bret Easton Ellis " chills spark vertigo, its erudition brings on dislocating giddiness.
Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent-it renders most other fiction meaningless. Dazzling." - The Washington Post Book World "An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book." -The Wall Street Journal "A great novel.
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.
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