House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski, Paperback

"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.

Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 03/07/2000
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.54lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.60w x 1.47d
ISBN: 9780375703768
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2000 pg. 134
Publishers Weekly 01/24/2000 pg. 291
Library Journal 02/15/2000 pg. 195
Booklist 03/01/2000 pg. 1194
New Yorker (The) 03/20/2000 pg. 139
New York Times 03/26/2000 pg. 9
New York Times 06/04/2000 pg. 42
Commonweal 12/01/2000 pg. 26
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 68

About the Author
Mark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966. House of Leaves is his first novel.