Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966. House of Leaves is his first novel.
Mark Z. Danielewski's Books
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Holly Christine
I had no idea what I was getting into when I started reading this one. Always one to find a treasure in the endless list of Amazon recommendations, this book found me. I was hooked from the beginning: “And then the nightmares will begin.” To say that I had nightmares wouldn’t do this gem justice. There are winding staircases that never seem to end, a fortress within a house all found by a mysterious hallway, a plague of curiosity on a man that moved his family to Virginia for a fresh start, and that prose—that beautiful prose that flows from sentence to sentence all the while there is another story, the first, or maybe the second, floating around through rambling footnotes at the bottom. This is a symphony of words. A perfection of the craft. An enviable production. And it hasn’t received anywhere near the praise that it deserves.
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House of Leaves (3)
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 marg…
Only Revolutions (0)
Sam:
They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:
We’re allways sixteen.
Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling do…
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves (0)
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lie vre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship betwe…
