#mark danielewski

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR'S NEXT TOP GENDER, ROUND FOUR MATCH FOUR: The House on Ash Tree Lane (House of Leaves) vs. Edward Hyde (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

PROPAGANDA FOR THE HOUSE:

"It’s a house but it’s also an inscrutable labyrinth but it’s also sentient but it’s also haunted and there might or might not be a hungry darkness lurking within it. Did I mention it’s a house."

PROPAGANDA FOR HYDE:

"Simultaneously a toxically hypermasculine hairy cunt AND a bitchy effeminate dandy. Literally indescribably uncanny. Ugly as fuck but implied to suck and fuck men all night every night. Needs cocaine to exist. How is that not a gender?"

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Similarly, if you’ve never heard of a book until now but formed an opinion from this post, you may wish to select a “no” option e.g., “No, but I want to.”

(...) [A] work of epistolary fiction and metafiction focusing on a fictional documentary film titled the Navidson Record, presented as a story within a story discussed in a handwritten monograph recovered by the primary narrator, Johnny Truant. The narrative makes heavy use of multiperspectivity as Truant's footnotes chronicle his efforts to transcribe the manuscript, which itself reveals the Navidson Record's supposed narrative through transcriptions and analysis depicting a story of a family who discovers a larger-on-the-inside labyrinth in their house.

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[phospadparadscha]

I love that the blue text color on tumblr is the same shade as the blue text in House of Leaves. This website is an extra room in the house

[luthienleithian]

"And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share."

— Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)

[inniave]

how i'm spending my evening

[painterofhorizons]

Aaaaaaah! I've had a German version of house of leaves for ages at home, but always wanted to read the original. After being out of print for years there's finally a remastered version in stores and i finally got it! (and since it's unfortunately soft cover it cost way less then I expected to pay, yay)

[elantedronai]

I don’t know if it’s just me not reading it right or something, but is House of Leaves really a horror? I’m about a quarter of the way through and it feels like a hilarious satire. It’s like if that post ‘sometimes the curtains are blue because the author just wanted them to be blue, there’s no hidden meaning’ was an entire novel.

The amount of people squabbling in footnotes about how ‘oh this camera shot of a cup means ‘x’, no it means ‘y’, no it means something else!’ seems like it’s Danielewski making fun of critics having to find meaning in EVERY. LITTLE. THING. And Johnny slowly going mad while reading it (and his own tale getting more and more unbelievable) feels like people these days trying to prove they’re more intellectual and interesting by trying to find meaning in every little thing in life since that’s what you’re taught to do with literature in school + lying to make their own lives more interesting/meaningful. Johnny trying to use bigger words to sound more pretentious while continuously mixing up ‘should have’ with ‘should of’ feels like this too.

Sure, The Navidson Record is fun and creepy and intriguing, but it uses a shit ton of horror film tropes and isn’t really special the way the book’s ‘sources’ keep claiming. So far there’s nothing in there that would warrant the supposed thousands of articles/books/interviews people write on it. Some of the IC takes are so out of the left field and wild it has me cackling. Maybe this changes as it goes on?

But honestly, right now I can’t take this seriously as the pinnacle of horror I’ve heard people saying it is. I could be completely misreading, but it really reads like a brilliant, scathing satire of our modern way of reading instead. Either way, I think I love it.

[thessiansunfish]

Reading the book that makes people go mad and this is the acknowledgment 😍

[takemyrevolutions]

house of leaves

[foxlecter]

Met with a friend for lunch. He let me borrow House of Leaves and gave me patch from a concert he went to recently :3

[someprettyboat]

House Of Leaves

[horrorvillaintourney]

HORROR'S NEXT TOP GENDER, ROUND THREE MATCH SEVEN: Gabriel (Malignant) vs. The House on Ash Tree Lane (House of Leaves)

PROPAGANDA FOR GABRIEL:

"Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think conjoined twins can be (assigned) different sexes? Or at least it's very unlikely. So the fact that he is male at all is transgender- let alone the way he's forced to hide within/use his sister's body when they try to get rid of him. With the way he looks and exists in a body he is forced to live outside of "normal" gender. Also I like him"

"Literally a guy trapped in a female body but also he's extremely cool and sexy"

PROPAGANDA FOR THE HOUSE:

"It’s a house but it’s also an inscrutable labyrinth but it’s also sentient but it’s also haunted and there might or might not be a hungry darkness lurking within it. Did I mention it’s a house."

[lupus-dei]

every person analysing house of leaves that undoubtedly fails at mentioning Poe's album Haunted (2000) pisses me off like no no no youre doing this wrong shut up do it again

[inniave]

Morning shrinks space but leaves no message.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

[olameni]

A comic