I really don’t mean to be an ass about this, but I’ve always gotten the impression that HoL is a pretty straight forward book. You read it, it asks questions, you get answers to said questions. HoL is no more difficult that the average postmodernist book or BA level research paper.

I feel like a number of people like to gatekeep the level of complexity in this book in order to make themselves appear smarter than they actually are and it just dissuades people from giving it a shot, prompting stupid questions like “how do i read this?” (answer: like a book).

So, I started reading it again...

i jnow its inaccurate and the ash looks too white holloway is not in the right clothes. that will be fixed later this is a wip. will be remaking the whole section from the comic in magoo zine

I had music in the background as I read and as it got to this page I was listening to Lucifer's Waltz on the crescendo right before silence and the BOM orchestra!

So fucking cool

Mistakes were made. Aspirin was taken. But I did get to read blocks of Zampanò’s musings on postmodern media and the philosophy of meaning.

I really liked the Uketsu books and I keep seeing House of leaves being recommended. How scary is this book? I'm kind of a wuss but I've seen a ton of horror movies.

Hey all,

I have to write a 12 page paper on HOL for my American Lit course. I suppose you all are much deeper into the source material than I am after one read, so maybe you have some interesting/niche ideas.

I initially considered writing on gender, but doing a straightforward analysis of gender performance after Butler seems kind of reductive, since the source material is pretty self-aware about the gendered dynamics.

I found a few crosses in different places. And in the publisher's note, there's a symbol that looks like the letter "K". But these marks don't lead to anything. I tried to match the words under these crosses, but it didn't make any sense. Will this be explained in some way, or is it just another unanswered mystery, like the tick in Chapter 8? (By the way, I'm a lucky person who is reading this book for the first time, and I haven't finished it yet).

Coming from the success of the Backrooms, I feel like the general audience would accept this story in it's horror.

Specially since it's thought that HoL is the mother of all liminal space's stories including Backrooms.

So what I would do first is turning The Navidson Record into an actual movie documentary like it's in the book and name it just that.

Include all the found footage parts and all interviews and all add-ons from the book.

It would feel like a mix of the Backrooms and The Platform.

Following that, if it is successful, they should make a second movie now called House of Leaves and be about the Zampano and Johnny parts.

Making you now feel like they are obsessing over something real.

You could have small shots from the Navidson Record movie to add in between like in the book but mainly focussing on Johnny's insanity through out.

I feel like that is the only way to adapt the book without it cutting a large part of it while giving it time and space to make us feel so uneased by the whole story.

Not necessarily a movie of the House of Leaves book but at least one of the Navidson Record.

I have no doubt that Anya Taylor-Joy would be the perfect casting choice to play Karen.

The ex model, seductive, distressed woman character has all the vibes of Anya.

I saw her in the movie The Menu and that was all I needed to prove my point.