House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark. * GUARDIAN * A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe. -- BRET EASTON ELLIS Genre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read. * OBSERVER * This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down or persuasively conclude reading . . . when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages. -- JONATHAN LETHEM There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish. -- Kim Newman * INDEPENDENT * Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope. * MAIL ON SUNDAY * A fascinatingly insane triumph. -- Matt Thorne * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * An astonishing book . . . buy it, read it, be scared. * SFX * The fictional equivalent of an earthquake zone . . . should delight literary theorists and story-lovers alike. * NEW STATESMAN * An audacious and accomplished debut. * LITERARY REVIEW *
