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 for the first
time this astonishing novel is made available in book form complete with the original colored
words vertical footnotes and newly added 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.
