Little is actually known about the inspiration for the story, or the exact time period during which it was written. 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. Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.

The manuscript is a complex commentary on a documentary film (The Navidson Record) about a house that defies all the laws of physics. House of Leaves has been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. This edition of the book includes more than 80 hand-stitched illustrations, new typography, and textual changes that were developed thanks to the REDCAT productions. In her The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film.A paperback edition of the book was published on July 10, 2007, [48] an audiobook featuring music by Danny Elfman was also released that year, [49] and an interactive ebook version was released through Apple's iBooks on December 15, 2015. Shadowcaster Christine Marie Will Create 40-Foot Shadows During 'The Fifty Year Sword' This Halloween".

Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn 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. The simultaneous paperback issue of the first published edition of his first book (which states "2nd edition" on the title page).

What could have been a perfectly entertaining bit of literary horror is instead an assault on the nature of story. One of the centerpieces of the novel is a film, and Danielewski has said that film and film criticism were a (if not, the) major influence on the writing of the novel. What can we tell about Truant’s relationship with his insane mother, Pelefina Heather Lievre, especially from looking at the Whalestoe Institute Letters? Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent-it renders most other fiction meaningless.

Typing it in by hand is too damn slow, so I'm trying to get ahold of some OCR software to convert it to text so I can just feed it raw into the hexeditor.

Danielewski builds, around the armature of the central horror fiction, a complex and involving portrait of three very different characters: Truant's hedonistic trawls through LA are counterpointed by Zampano's intellectual obsessiveness and by the disintegration of Navidson's "cosy little outpost. It is also a book where having the extra colors does make a small difference but this is a difference which is minimised when you see how elements are handled in different editions. House of Leaves is also the "book," painstakingly compiled by a strange old man named Zampanò, acquired after his death by Johnny Truant, an apathetic slacker mired in drugs and sad sex.