"A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and
like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." --The New
York Times
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 this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with
the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and 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.
