Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing
more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally
surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted
following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd
assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers,
strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made
its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in
those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of
their estranged children. Now, for the first time, this