#hol danielewski

[rononliest]

Horror Books List

The horror books I read that I really enjoyed:

🔹 Comeau - One bloody thing after another 🔹 Danielewski - house of leaves 🔹 De Maria - The Twenty Days of Turin 🔹 Miles - Rabbits 🔹 Nakamura - Utsubora (cw: suicide) 🔹 Pessl - Night Film (cw: suicide) 🔹 Starobinec - An Akward Age 🔹 Vandermeer - Annihilation (part #1 of the Area X trilogy) 🔹 Yamada - Strangers (japanese ghost story)

🔹 American Elsewhere - Andrew Jackson Bennett

🔶 TBR: 🔹 The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall 🔹 Bats of the republic - Dodson 🔹 S. The Ship of Theseus -J.J. Abrams 🔹 The Troop - Nick Cutter 🔹 you should have left - Kehlmann 🔹 Broken Monsters - Beukes 🔹 Betrayals - Charles Palliser

Which other books would you also recommend? :)

#peculiar books #postsecret #postsecret warren #pessl night film #particular books #house of leaves #hol danielewski #mark z danielewski #danielewski casa di foglie #danielewski house of leaves #danielewski das haus #horror books #perec #nakamura utsubora #terry miles rabbits #book list #book recommendations #nick cutter #kehlmann #beukes #charles palliser #jj abrams #dodson #steven hall

[1000deaddraculas]

This is not for you.

#house of leaves #HoL #mark z danielewski #poe #haunted #my house.wad #fanart #book #minotaur #maze #the backrooms #liminal

[ink-pocket]

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞.

#house of leaves #mark z danielewski #hol #house on ash tree lane #whalestoe letters #pelafina #mixed media #collage

[keingleichgewicht]

what's house of leaves?

the short version is, it's a book about a book about a book about a book about a movie that never existed about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. it is probably the single most famous/notorious existing work of "ergodic fiction", meaning basically fiction which exists in such a complex relationship with its medium that it takes nontrivial effort just to consume, meaning uhhhh a lot of it looks like this,

or worse!

it's like, fifty percent an extremely high-effort mockery of modern academia, it's often doing its active best to be completely incomprehensible to you, its and i cannot emphasize this enough A Space With A Beast In It. its awfully dear to my heart also. or as mark z danielewsky who wrote it puts it:

"I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right.

#house of leaves #hol #ask #anonymous #to clarify the first bit it is specifically like. an onion of unreliable narrators. scheherazade tactics with in-text citations #mark z danielewsky made a book about the editors making a book about johnny truant making a book about zampano making #a book about will navidson making a movie #about his family in A House Which Is Bigger On The Inside. #half the point of course is that at some point you start to feel that the book is also bigger on the inside

[coyote-finn]

"At the risk of stating the obvious, no woman can mate with a bull and produce a child. Recognizing this simple scientific fact, I am led to a somewhat interesting suspicion: King Minos did not build the labyrinth to imprison a monster but to conceal a deformed child, his child.

While the Minotaur has often been depicted as a creature with the body of a bull but the torso of a man, centaur-like, the myth describes the minotaur as simply having the head of a bull and the body of a man, or in other words, a man with a deformed face. I believe pride would not allow Minos to accept that the heir to the throne had a horrendous appearance.

Consequently, he dissolved the right of ascension by publicly accusing his wife Pasiphae of fornicating with a male bovine.

Having enough conscience to keep from murdering his own flesh and blood, Minos had a labyrinth constructed, complicated enough to keep his son from ever escaping but without bars to suggest a prison. (It is interesting to note how the myth states most of the Athenian youth "fed" to the Minotaur actually starved to death in the Labyrinth, thus indicating their deaths had more to do with the complexity of the maze and less to do with the presumed ferocity of the Minotaur.)

I am convinced Minos' maze really serves as a trope for repression. My published thoughts on this subject (see "Birth Defects in Knossos"Sonny Won't Wait Flyer, Santa Cruz, 1968) inspired the playwright Taggert Chielitz to author a play called *The Minotaur* for The Seattle Repertory Company. As only eight people, including the doorman, got a chance to see the production, I produce here a brief summary:

Chielitz begins his play with Minos entering the labyrinth late one evening to speak to his son. As it turns out, the Minotaur is a gentle and misunderstood creature, while the so-called Athenian youth are convicted criminals who were already sentenced to death back in Greece. Usually King Minos has them secretly executed and then publicly claims their deaths were caused by the terrifying Minotaur thus ensuring that the residents of Knossos will never get too close to the labyrinth. Unfortunately this time, one of the criminals had escaped into the maze, encountered Mint (as Chielitz refers to the Minotaur) and nearly murdered him. Had Minos himself not rushed in and killed the criminal, his son would have perished. Suffice it to say Minos is furious. He has caught himself caring for his son and the resulting guilt and sorrow ineeses him to no end. As the play progresses, the King slowly sees past his son's deformities, eventually discovering an elegiae spirit, an artistie sentiment and most importantly a visionary understanding of the world. Soon a deep paternal love grows in the King's heart and he begins to conceive of a way to reintroduce the Minotaur back into society. Sadly, the stories the King has spread throughout the world concerning this terrifying beast prove the seeds of tragedy. Soon enough, a bruiser named Theseus arrives (Chielitz describes him as a drunken, virtually retarded, frat boy) who without a second thought hacks the Minotaur into little pieces. In one of the play's most moving scenes, King Minos, with tears streaming down his face, publicly commends Theseus' courage. The crowd believes the tears are a sign of gratitude while we the audience understand they are tears of loss. The King's heart breaks and while he will go on to be an extremely just ruler, it is a justice forever informed by the deepest kind of agony."

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

pg. 110-111

#house of leaves #hol #mark z danielewski #king minos #minotaur #the minotaur

[dragonwysper]

Hey besties guess what

House of Leaves animatic time 😎

Voice lines and SFX from the wonderful @dentwy (thank you again omg)

BGM is 'Trust Fall' by Laryssa Okada

Animatic drawn in Clip Studio Paint, originally compiled in Capcut (and then in Toon Boom Harmony), and audio mixed in Audacity.

Scene is Exploration #2.

#was hoping to have this well into the actual animation stage by now but toon boom fucked up and imported the frames to the wrong timestamps #but yeah this is what i've spent my all-nighter on #probably gonna take a few-hour nap and then continue #gotta rush this motherfucker #hol #house of leaves #mark z danielewski #animatic #animation #my art #my animation #my animatic #not my voice acting #not my music #laryssa okada #holloway roberts #jed leeder #wax hook #kirby “wax” hook #will navidson #billy reston #tom navidson #the house on ash tree lane #Youtube #toon boom harmony #audacity #clip studio paint #capcut

[ojerasgigantes]

Me when- me when the spiral- me when everything is interconnected - me when the weaves and networks and- Me when trendils pull themselves together- the viscera- the nothingness- the all seeing and the omnipotence- when the labyrinth molds itself according to its intruder- when you are the punishment, the punisher and the punished- when the vicious cycle will never be broken- when the house is your home, your only home- when the house is so cold it burns to the touch- when stepping into its foyer is sinking- when its clawing onto your entrails- when the Minotaur is you- when the house is made of paper- when the house is God.

#I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH #house of leaves #hol #mark z danielewski #books #horror #analysis #web weaving #vent #everytime i think of this book I feel like i go a bit insane

[tonypostt]

PICTURE THAT. IN YOUR DREAMS.

#tonytxt #my art #house of leaves #johnny truant #eyestrain #hol #mark z danielewski #i will never stop drawing johnny truant . you'll never catch me alive #joby............

[crickets-must-be-enslaved]

"i need to draw" oops! all johnny!

the second one is so dumb help

#house of leaves #hol #mark z danielewski #johnny truant #house of leaves art #art #fanart #YEAHHHHH #BACK ON MY BULLSHIT #JOHNNYPOSTING

[dogboymanbirddogman]

[image id: a semi lineless drawing of johnny truant’s mother cradling a baby with a bright red highland cow’s head. she looks calmly and contently down toward the child while it sleeps peacefully. her hospital gown and blanket are both blue. surrounding this vignette is a textureless black square. above it reads the text “what I’m remembering now,” in the same red as the cow’s head. besides the black box, all elements of the drawing are textured like paper. /end id]

i call this one “portrait of johnny”

#art #house of leaves #hol #johnny truant #mark z danielewski #fanart #dogboy drawings

[rononliest]

Strange and Peculiar Books

#A Abrams – S. #B Bierce - The devil's Dictionary (this book is written in dictionary format; every now and then I read a page or two because it's too funny 😁) #C Cortazar - Hopscotch

#D Danielewski - House of Leaves (horror); Only Revolutions; The fifty years Swords; The Familiar. Dodson - Bats of the republic #F Fowles - The Magus #H Hall - The Raw Shark Texts; Maxwell's Demon Hughes - XX #K Kafka - The Trial #M McIntosh - TheMystery.doc Miles - Rabbits (horror) #N Nakamura - Utsubora (graphic novel; cw: suicide) Nenik - XO (only in German) #P Pavic - Dictionary of Khazars Perec - Life: A user's manual Pessl - Night Film (cw: suicide) #W Warren - A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book (if you are not yet familiar with the world of postsecret then you are missing out! At Postsecret everyone can anonymously share a secret of their own: the secrets chosen from the many that come in are then posted on the site and on the site's other social profiles. Some secrets even make it into the book-sized collection that comes out annually :) Lifetime of Secrets is one of the published books, made entirely of secrets. My copy is filled with tears T_T)

#frank warren #postsecret #postsecret warren #pessl night film #peculiar books #particular books #house of leaves #hol danielewski #mark z danielewski #danielewski casa di foglie #danielewski house of leaves #danielewski das haus #horror books #perec #nakamura utsubora #terry miles rabbits #book list #book recommendations

[knifeeater]

The interior designer hired was a sentimentalist. | Claudia as structuring absence.

House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski | ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding Interview with the Vampire

(@dlsintegration: #what if u got deep inside navidson's house and its just a little tree.#a magnolia tree perhaps .)

#pleaseee don't get me started on this #house of leaves #iwtv #hol #mark z. danielewski #interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #knives

[cupsofsilver]

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski moodboard. Images via Pinterest.

#mark z. danielewski #house of leaves #the navidson records #johnny truant #will navidson #zampano #hol #moodboard #haunted house #the navidson record #this is not for you #the house on ash tree lane

[optimalmongoose4]

“Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.”

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

“You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay.”

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

#cormac mccarthy #blood meridian #mark z danielewski #house of leaves #hol

[flawofbeing]

#house of leaves #johnny truant #zampano #will navidson #mark z danielewski #i have hol brain rot #hol

[cowbuoys]

or so lude confided; i’ve always loved the way lude could confide a rumor

#house of leaves #lude #lude nolastname #hol #johnny truant #house of leaves art #my art #bought danielewskis scripts and lude wears docs and has beautiful hair VERBATIM. thank you #dont talk to me