House Of Leaves
  • Published: 15 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529943993
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 736
  • RRP: $100.00

House Of Leaves

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Tr. Paperback
15 Jul 2000
Hardback
15 Oct 2024
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Imagine Doctor Who's 'Tardis' in book form . . . this takes you only part of the way into the extraordinary, terrifying, thrilling, mind-expanding story that is House of Leaves - a masterpiece of horror and an immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel . . .

* First-ever UK hardback publication

* Deluxe edition with foil cover

* Complete final FULL-COLOUR text

* Special embossed 'maze' case design

Now published in hardback in the UK for the first time, the nightmarish story of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside - a tale that continues to inspire devotion among its ever-growing army of fans...

'Phenomenal . . . thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent.' BRET EASTON ELLIS

'Genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'A genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.' OBSERVER

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A young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small house on Ash Tree Lane.

But something is terribly wrong - their new home is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside . . .

Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility until the day their two small children wandered off, and their voices eerily began to tell 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 and create nightmares.

What happened next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, and impelled an eccentric old man to compile - on loose sheets of paper, stained napkins, crammed notebooks - a definitive account of what took place at Ash Tree Lane that seems to unveil a thrilling and terrifying history.

Because these scraps prove to be far more than the deranged ramblings of a reclusive old man . . .

Immensely imaginative. Impossible to put down. Impossible to forget.
House of Leaves is thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have read before.

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  • Published: 15 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529943993
  • Imprint: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 736
  • RRP: $100.00
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About the author

Mark Z Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski, son of a film director who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, grew up in Utah, is in his mid-thirties and was educated at Harvard, where he was taught by Harold Bloom. He attended the most prestigious film school in America at the University of Southern California and has written a number of screenplays. His sister, Poe, is a cult rock star in the States.

Also by Mark Z Danielewski

The Familiar, Volume 5
The Familiar, Volume 4
The Familiar, Volume 3
The Familiar, Volume 2
The Familiar, Volume 1
The Whalestoe Letters
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Praise for House Of Leaves

House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark.

GUARDIAN

A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe.

BRET EASTON ELLIS

Genre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.

OBSERVER

This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down or persuasively conclude reading . . . 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

There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish.

Kim Newman, INDEPENDENT

Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.

MAIL ON SUNDAY

A fascinatingly insane triumph.

Matt Thorne, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

The fictional equivalent of an earthquake zone . . . should delight literary theorists and story-lovers alike.

Martyn Bedford, NEW STATESMAN

An audacious and accomplished debut.

LITERARY REVIEW

An astonishing book . . . buy it, read it, be scared.

SFX

Intricate, erudite and deeply frightening.

Elizabeth Bukowski, WALL STREET JOURNAL
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