A family moves into a house in the Virginia countryside and finds a closet where there wasn’t one, then a hallway, and then measure the place and discover the inside is a quarter inch bigger than the outside. The hallway keeps growing. The book is that footage, described in a manuscript by a blind old man who may have invented the film, annotated by a tattoo shop kid who’s coming apart while he transcribes it, with footnotes fighting each other down the page. Text runs sideways, upside down, one word per page during the chase scenes, and the word house is blue everywhere it appears. It is a haunted house made out of typography.
House of Leaves