It’s most similar to-indeed, likely a huge influence upon-the weird short films Adult Swim used to put out and which have become infamous online, particularly the short This House Has People In It, in which a family go about their normal activities on the day of their son’s birthday while their daughter sinks through the ceiling, and things escalate from there. The horror is of a very particular nature. And yet he can’t dismiss it as fiction because something is happening to him, something he scrawls the details of in the footnotes of Zampanó’s manuscript. At least according to Zampanó who collects all this information in his labyrinthine analysis of the phenomenon Johnny Truant can’t find any evidence it ever existed. The Navidson Record became infamous, a cult phenomenon, the subject of academic articles and widely referenced in popular culture. The documentary chronicles the strange events unfolding in the house Navidson moved into with his family a collage of CCTV footage, handheld recordings and interviews that provide a documentation of an eerie black void that has made its impossible appearance known in the house.

Zampanó’s manuscript, feverishly scrawled on all manner of surfaces before his strange death, is a pseudo-academic work called The Navidson Record, a heavily annotated text on a documentary by famed photojournalist William Navidson.

Johnny Truant, a troubled young man, is led to the writings of Zampanó, an elderly recluse found dead in his apartment. House of Leaves is a strange meta-academic horror text of Goliath proportions and madness. But at the same time, in its relation to the surrounding space, it is a ‘goal’, and we either advance toward this goal or depart from it.” “Every house is an architecturally structured ‘path’: the specific possibilities of movement and the drives toward movement as one proceeds from the entrance through the sequence of spatial entities have been pre-determined by the architectural structuring of that space and one experiences the space accordingly. After all, it’s rather fitting to inject some wannabe academia into a review of such a novel. Maybe I’ll draw on what little I remember of that research in this review. The project culminated in House of Leaves, generally considered the final boss of weirdly formatted literature. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, known as the “book in a box”, as it was presented unbound with chapters separated with the intention of being shuffled so no one reader would read them in the same order as any other and Albert Angelo, which featured a hole cut in the book that revealed a plot twist several pages in the future, essentially effecting the reading with foreknowledge, only for context to change that knowledge as well as a few others.

No, I didn’t cheat on literature coursework I did a project on books that presented a unique problem for publishers, which included B. Somewhat improbably, I studied House of Leaves before I read it.

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