House Of Leaves

Discover the nightmarish tale 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... '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'At once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.' OBSERVER'Genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Phenomenal . . . thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent.' BRET EASTON ELLISWHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'I've never read anything like it' - 5 STARS'Strange, highly addictive and slowly creepy' - 5 STARS'A book like no other' - 5 STARS'The creativity and originality is astonishing' - 5 STARS'Unreservedly recommended' - 5 STARS'Buy it, read it, and explore it' - 5 STARSA young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane. But something is terribly wrong - their house 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 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 . . . What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading an eccentric old man to compile - on loose sheets of paper, stained napkins, crammed notebooks - a definitive record of what took place at Ash Tree Lane that seems to unveil a thrilling and terrifying history. Because these scraps of paper, old napkins and notebooks prove to be far more than the 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.

Mark Z. Danielewski, son of a film director who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, grew up in Utah 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. Ten years in the writing, House of Leaves - his first novel - was first published in 2000. His sister, Poe, is a cult rock star in the States. He lives in Los Angeles.