#houseofleaves — Public Fediverse posts
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Mistodon: this #ASCIIart interpretation of the cover art to #MarkZDanielewski's 2000 novel #HouseOfLeaves was drawn by Moth. This piece was included in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Krakauer is very much a Navidson figure, an adventure journalist, his wife isn't happy about his dangerous treks though she's come to uneasily accept that this is who he is, and he's journeying though a liminal environment towards impending doom.
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I'm reading a ratty paperback copy of Into Thin Air (with a mysterious fake Jon Krakauer autograph) about a journalist (Krakauer) on a Mt Everett climb that ends in tragedy, and its feeling like a prequel to House of Leaves.
Wouldn't be surprised if Danielewski read this.
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We have another quick break in our scheduled programming today, back to the pixelated horrors of hell's invasion. This time, though, we're not at some Hi-Tech moon base or the rust-n-blood landscapes of Hell. No, today we're taking a look at MyHouse.wad
That's right, this totally normal tour through someone's home took the retro gaming scene by storm a few years back, and was such a treat to explore through! Everything from the engine trickery, to the soundtrack, to the custom enemies, all employed to such finesse that the end result was so polished and well thought out that even with years of experience playing this game and knowing the mapping tricks, I still got caught off guard with portions of this playthrough.
No joke, I still to this day find myself thinking back on this map fondly, wishing I could forget I had played it so that I could experience it fresh for the first time again. If you haven't heard of this map and are interested in a boomer shooter adaptation of #HouseOfLeaves you should go play this map, then come back and enjoy the VOD.
#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #RetroGames #BoomerShooters #Doom
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has anyone out there read House of Leaves? it's a mysterious, fascinating book that i love
now A24 is doing a movie, Backrooms.
the preview reminds me of that book, but apparently, this movie is related to an old 4Chan post?
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I'm writing a parody sequel to House of Leaves about being trapped in an endless IKEA.
I'm calling it Couch of Twigs.
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Commonalities between Neverending Story and House of Leaves:
- Multiple layers of reality
- Center around books with mysterious origins received from an old man
- Reading the book changes whoever reads it
- A boy protagonist abandoned by his mother
- The Nothing, a void personified by a stalking monster, representing a flaw of the mind
- Deal with trauma via an impossible world
- The impossible world changes based on the mentality of the protagonist
- Subtle fourth wall breaks
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House of Leaves is just Neverending Story for adult trauma.
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Navidson: Why won't you publish my documentary??
Film Producer: Well, first there's the pacing issue.
Navidson: YES!!! That's what I've been trying to explain! The house measures a half pace bigger on the inside!!
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(See what I did there in describing the video length?)
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Ohhhhhhh. Sagan Hawkes just dropped a three and a half mile essay about The House Of Leaves..........
(If you haven't read the book, go do that first, and since he's gonna tie this in with MyHouse.wad, then play that or watch a playthrough, and only then watch the essay.)
(Seriously. House of Leaves is not a read so much as an experience. It's the book I feel the most about every time I'm reminded it exists.)
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I'm reading House Of Leaves for a second time and I think I might go to the library tomorrow to read. Because there's only two ways to read this book:
Like the editor, in a library, studiously
Like Zampanò, shutters closed, in the near dark, and a little bit of paranoia(You could also read it like Johnny, but that's the same as Zampanò but horny.)
#reading #library #HouseOfLeaves #horror #study #libraries #litterature -
"There are several more shots. Trees in winter. Blood on the kitchen floor. One shot of a child (Daisy) crying. Then back to Navidson: "Nothing but this tape which I've seen enough times, its more like a memory than anything else. And I still don't know: was he right or just out of his mind?" Followed by three more shots. Dark hallways. Windowless rooms. Stairs."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. 5-5
These various images stuck with me.
#reading #HouseOfLeaves #lecture #horror #literature #imagery
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"Whoever finds and publishes this work shall be entitled to all proceeds. I ask only that my name take its rightful place. Perhaps you will even prosper. If, however, you discover that readers are less than sympathetic and choose to dismiss this enterprise out of hand, then may I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, for whether you know it or not, now you truly are prosperous. They say truth stands the test of time. I can think of no greater comfort han knowing this document failed such a test."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. Xix-Xix
#reading #quote #houseOfLeaves #truth #foundFootage #horror #suspense
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"I'd been in the throes of looking for an apartment after a little difficulty with a landlord who woke up one morning convinced he was Charles de Gaulle. I was so stunned by this announcement that before I could think twice I'd already told him how in my humble estimation he did not at all resemble an airport though the thought of a 757 landing on him was not at all disagreeable. I was promptly evicted. I could have put up a fight but the place was a nuthouse anyway and I was glad to leave. As it turned out Chuckie de Gaulle burnt the place to the ground a week later. Told the police a 757 had crashed into it."
— Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, pp. Xi-Xi
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I did a little #Poe karaoke cover dealy, and like any good fan of #HouseOfLeaves, I added my own verse at the end like a note in a margin.
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Rosie O'Donnell, however, offered a different perspective when she wryly remarked on Entertainment Tonight: "The fact that Holloway waited that long to use a compass only goes to show how men–even explorers–still refuse to ask for directions."
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When I looked at the #HouseOfLeaves hashtag someone linked to a video about “myhouse.wad”, a YouTube play through of a mysterious doom map.
I sent it to my friend who gave me the book, but didn’t watch it then.
I didn’t realize it was a movie length masterpiece. Seriously, this thing took a long time to make.
It reminds me of an actual terrifying experience I had playing a doom mod back in the day.
1/3
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When I looked at the #HouseOfLeaves hashtag someone linked to a video about “myhouse.wad”, a YouTube play through of a mysterious doom map.
I sent it to my friend who gave me the book, but didn’t watch it then.
I didn’t realize it was a movie length masterpiece. Seriously, this thing took a long time to make.
It reminds me of an actual terrifying experience I had playing a doom mod back in the day.
1/3
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When I looked at the #HouseOfLeaves hashtag someone linked to a video about “myhouse.wad”, a YouTube play through of a mysterious doom map.
I sent it to my friend who gave me the book, but didn’t watch it then.
I didn’t realize it was a movie length masterpiece. Seriously, this thing took a long time to make.
It reminds me of an actual terrifying experience I had playing a doom mod back in the day.
1/3
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When I looked at the #HouseOfLeaves hashtag someone linked to a video about “myhouse.wad”, a YouTube play through of a mysterious doom map.
I sent it to my friend who gave me the book, but didn’t watch it then.
I didn’t realize it was a movie length masterpiece. Seriously, this thing took a long time to make.
It reminds me of an actual terrifying experience I had playing a doom mod back in the day.
1/3
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When I looked at the #HouseOfLeaves hashtag someone linked to a video about “myhouse.wad”, a YouTube play through of a mysterious doom map.
I sent it to my friend who gave me the book, but didn’t watch it then.
I didn’t realize it was a movie length masterpiece. Seriously, this thing took a long time to make.
It reminds me of an actual terrifying experience I had playing a doom mod back in the day.
1/3
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I have started reading #HouseOfLeaves . And by reading, I mean leaving it in the bathroom and reading a random section while I’m in there. Sequentially I’ve read about 4 pages of introduction.
For example, I noticed in the index there was a single page reference for Eagle. So I read from the page before that to the page after it. The first two pages were all lies.
If they are going to be an unreliable narrator I am going to be an unreliable reader.
I am also writing notes inside.
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‘House of Leaves’ Author Mark Z. Danielewski on Conjuring ‘The Voice of the Mountain’ to Write His 1,200-Page Horror Western ‘Tom’s Crossing’
#Variety #Features #Houseofleaves #MarkZDanielewski #Tom039scrossinghttps://variety.com/2025/film/features/house-of-leaves-mark-z-danielewski-toms-crossing-1236571082/
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Turns out that House of Leaves was "[t]he colloquial name for the headquarters of the Albanian secret police," and now is the Museum of Secret Surveillance. Which means that I can actually visit House of Leaves. If I ever visit Albania.
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Came across a sonic fanart of #HouseOfLeaves there :
https://housefiresuoh.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-leaves
The last two last track are pure dark ambient bliss !
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What would you put here?
House of Leaves on a crystal grid!
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La Casa de Hojas – Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
Hace más o menos un año, escribí en la web una reseña corta de Solaris, la novela de Lem. En ella comentaba que cada persona ve una cosa única cuando mira al mar: un reflejo de sí mismo. Y esa idea de que no somos capaces de ver las cosas tal y como son, sino tal y como nosotros somos1, es algo que siempre encuentro en la literatura. Dos personas pueden leer el mismo texto y obtener mensajes totalmente distintos según sus experiencias vitales o su estado de ánimo. Una vez el autor […]
https://fsolt.es/2025/08/la-casa-de-hojas-mark-z-danielewski-2000/
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There's finally a hardcover version of #HouseOfLeaves .
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Latest find in my first attempt reading "House Of Leaves" is a proper #Pratchett style match cut in literary format.
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started playing Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and it is giving off House of Leaves vibes, which is very good in my book
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so i recently had this horrible problem with the backup software i'm using where it would find a seemingly unlimited quantity of files in my downloads folder - the number would just keep going up the longer it looked, and after some hours it reported to have uploaded 5,165,681 files (or 30,549.48 GB) from my 500GB SSD, with 306,750,319 files (38,332.45 GB) left to go, all the while it filled that drive with its own database. I assumed this to be a bug in the software, because the alternative, being that I had somehow downloaded the Navidson house, seemed implausible.
Until, after significant debugging efforts, I found a folder in my downloads helpfully titled "uhh" that appeared to contain... itself. Attempting to delete it caused Windows Explorer to try to recycle over 30,000 files and then crash. It also had some other weird, kind of broken folders within it, with names that imply some sort of puzzle. And then I remembered watching some youtube video, years ago, talking about this Windows bug or something you could exploit with the command prompt to make infinitely nested folders and extremely hidden files. I fear that I did this on purpose. WinDirStat is somehow able to show me that beyond the infinite nested folder loop, if I was able to get to the bottom of the well and open what I guess is the ωth folder, there is in fact a file called "here.txt". I now have two goals: delete the folder, but get the text file out of it first.
Unfortunately I am utterly hopeless to find the original youtube video, but after much googling of similar issues, I have the puzzle solution: prefixing a full file path with
\\?\or\\.\in cmd allows you to work with illegal pathnames. A file or folder with a name ending in a space causes all sorts of weird problems, and naming a folder...creates the infinite loop I was seeing. I finally deleted the labryinth and got here.txt out of it; the contents of the file are as follows:There's nothing here.
No secrets.
No mystery.
Just this text file.
Go look somewhere else. You'll just be wasting time here!
Oh well. Did you at least have fun on the journey? It's a lot harder on windows computers, I'll say!Fuck you, past me. That took me a day.
(I guess in hindsight it was kinda fun though...)
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Ergodic Literature: The Weirdest Book Genre
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I tend to read ebooks these days but today I bought a real book: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It’s been recommended to me a lot recently. I’ll be interested to find out whether the weird formatting and somewhat experimental nature is a gimmick or actually adds to the story.
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1. #House of Leaves to książka Marka Z. Danielewskiego z roku 2000.
2. Książka jest mieszanką tylu gatunków, że nie da się określić głównego. Jest tu horror, historia miłosna, dramat rodzinny, ale także natrząsanie się z pism akademickich. A to tylko z rzeczy, które ja wychwyciłem. Każdy znajdzie tu coś dla siebie.
3. Powieść składa się z warstw: (1) dokument stworzony przez znanego fotografa nt. tytułowego domu, (2) książka nt. dokumentu napisana przez tajemniczego starca, (3; tu zaczyna się meta) przypisy do poziomu 2 autorstwa Johnny'ego Truanta, który znalazł książkę z warstwy 2, (4) przypisy do przypisów z poziomu 3, tym razem autorstwa Redaktorów. Oprócz tego są załączniki na końcu (jak np. listy matki do Johnny'ego).
4. Jakby tego było mało, książka „bawi się” wizualnie z graczem i sekwencje w labiryntopodobnym miejscu są spisane jak labirynt, różne warstwy stosują różne fonty, a każde wystąpienie słowa #dom (w dowolnym języku) jest w kolorze niebieskim. Plus kilka innych motywów.
5. Wspomniany wcześniej horror w architektonicznej postaci #____ bardzo przypomina H. P. Lovecrafta, w tym, że nie ma tu potwora goniącego bohaterów, a raczej wszechobecny kosmiczny horror.
6. Napisanie książki zajęło podobno 10 lat pisania po 10 godzin dziennie. Nie wiem, czy to prawda, ale bogactwo detalu na każdym poziomie pozwala mi w to uwierzyć.
7. Czytanie powieści przyszło mi bardzo naturalnie, ponieważ skakanie pomiędzy różnymi odniesieniami jest umiejętnością, którą posiada każdy internauta skaczący np. po Wikipedii. Nie od razu to pojąłem.
8. Gdybym miał wskazać jakkolwiek podobną książkę, to byłaby to „Gra w klasy” Julia Cortazara.
9. Obok książki powstał album „Haunted” Poe (czyli Anne Decantur... Danielewski). Rodzeństwo inspirowało się nawzajem podczas tworzenia jednego i drugiego.
10. Ponad 700-stronnicową powieść pochłonąłem w bardzo szybkim dla siebie tempie i jestem zachwycony i mogę jedynie polecić.
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How to read #HouseofLeaves by #MarkZDanielewski - #spoiler free #review and #discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-RkhiPbzCc
I always wanted to read this never had time maybe now is a good time 🤔 Ain't nobody got money for this 😅
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I'm working on 3 books right now:
1. #HouseOfLeaves by #MarkZDanielewski
2. #TheKeyOfUs by #MariamaJLockington
3. #YiddishForPirates by #GaryBarwin -
I'M SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!! I just finished reading #ThePrioryOfTheOrangeTree by #SamanthaShannon a few minutes ago (took me 6 months, but I loved it!) and now I'm about to start a book my husband gave me for Christmas last year: #HouseOfLeaves by #MarkZDanielewski . I've been dying to read it, but I know it'll take me a while so I wanted to make sure I finished Priory first.
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This one's for anyone who likes spooky software stories (like Petscop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0
Too much FPS footage gives me motion sickness, so I'm watching this in little chunks...luckily the video maker was kind enough to make chapters. Very well presented, I'm enjoying it!
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Really good video essay for a genuine hidden gem
#doom #doommod #houseofleaves #interactivefiction #interactivestorytelling #interactivemedia #liminalspace -
Ninth-fifteenth: MASON & DIXON, THE STAND, GRIMMISH, NEGATIVE SPACE, HOUSE OF LEAVES, A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY and A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
https://captainfez.com/2023/03/14/book-reviews-six-or-so-no-its-six/
#noxp #books2023 #books #kindle #fiction #bookstodon #thomaspynchon #masonanddixon #michaelwinkler #grimmish #bryeager #negativespace #houseofleaves #markzdanielewski #ascentofnewmownhay #johnblackburn #charlesdickens #ataleoftwocities
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Et sidste nytårsknald i bøssen
Superkulturredaktionen har indset, at der ikke rigtig er overskud til regelmæssig podcast længere, så vi runder af med en transmission fra årets julefrokost, for at markere indgangen til det nye år. Godt nytår, alle sammen! Download her, eller abonnér på podcastens RSS-feed! Set siden sidst Wellington Paranormal Rings of power Triangle of sadness (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) Speed racer Wednesday (streaming-spinoff af Addams family) Sleepy Hollow Severance (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) Day of the dead (TV-serie) Into the dark Guillermo del Toro’s cabinet of curiosities (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) Hellraiser (2022) (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) Riget: Exodus (Anmeldt på Superkultur her, se også Surstrømming: Exodus) Omtalt i afsnittet Kannibalkultur Raw The menu Patricia Moore The hills have eyes (SciFi Haiku her) Bones and all Ruben Östlund-o-rama Force majeure The square Triangle of sadness (se ovenfor) Ti West-tema The innkeepers (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) House of the devil X (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) Pearl (Anmeldt på Superkultur her) MaXXXine (Endnu ikke udgivet) Clive Barker-filmatiseringer Nightbreed Candyman Books of blood Midnight meat train Rawhead Rex Lord of illusions The Wicker(man)verse The wicker man (1973, instr. Robin Hardy, manus Anthony Shaffer) The wicker man (2006, og desuden: nej) The wicker tree (2011, instr Robin Hardy) The loathsome Lambton worm (ufilmatiseret sequelmanus af Anthony Shaffer, udgivet 2020 som hørespil) …og det løse: The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert Weird: The Al Yankovic Story The timekeepers of eternity Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome! (Anmeldt i The Guardian) House of leaves Credits Indledningstemaet er Matt Oakleys The Incredible Shrinking Larry— hele hans album med fiktive firser-TV-temaer findes på Free Music Archive under Creative Commons’ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-licens . Udmarchen er William Henry Harrison High School Fight Song af Steve Combs, fra albummet Riot, som er lagt på FMA under en CC-Attribution-licens. Værterne er Janus Andersen og Allan Haverholm. Spørgsmål, kommentarer, og hilsner til det superkulturelle folk kan sendes til [email protected], eller i kommentarfeltet herunder.
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