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, 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 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.
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