RWC student Will Kendrick, Liberal Arts, has recently finished “House of Leaves,” by Mark Z. Danielewski.Kendrick describes the author’s metaphysically experimental debut yarn as “a fantastic labyrinth of a novel that’s as terrifying as it is fun to read.”
In this intricately layered horror novel, Johnny Truant, an apathetic slacker, finds, in the apartment of a dead blind man, a strange manuscript, and tries to organize the pieces. The work consists of notes on a documentary by one Will Navidson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographer.
The film chronicles the strange events in Navidson’s new Ash Tree Lane home, where the inside of the house is discovered to be larger than the outside-and continues to grow.
Those who enjoy the novel should read Danielewski’s follow-up, the companion novella “The Whalestoe Letters.