The impact has been greatly meaningful.”īenjamin Muir, a doctoral candidate at Western Sydney University can attest to this impact. House of Leaves doesn’t just connect with people, but actually connects people. “A lot of them saw the group as a window in a dark room. “It’s become a tight family that are dedicated to each other,” Thornhill says. The thousands of readers in the group have bonded over the mysteries in the book and new readers continue to join, often in search of guidance. “It’s one of those things you can’t relax with until you’ve discussed it with someone else.” “House of Leaves is a living, breathing thing,” she says. She agrees with Danielewski’s personification. Now and then, my kid’s friends think it’s cool to meet the dad, but they don’t want the dad hanging around for too long, they’re not friends with the dad, they’re friends with my kid.”ĭreebs Thornhill is a moderator of the House of Leaves book club, a Facebook group with more than 7,000 members and counting. By now my kid has made a lot of friends, forged close ties, has a multitude of personal relationships I know nothing about. “Look at it this way,” he says, “House of Leaves is a kid. Two decades on, Danielewski sees his relationship with his first book as that of a slightly distant parent. As Truant becomes increasingly obsessed with the story, so too does the reader. When Zampanò is found dead in his apartment, troubled tattoo artist Johnny Truant discovers his notes and inherits the fixation.
The Navidson Record, his film of these explorations, becomes the intense focus of a blind man called Zampanò, who writes about the footage with lengthy, academic precision. When a mysterious doorway appears, leading to a maze of smooth, ash-grey walls, Will Navidson – the house’s owner, a Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist – goes in to investigate.
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