By now my kid has made a lot of friends, forged close ties, has a multitude of personal relationships I know nothing about. “Look at it this way,” he says, “House of Leaves is a kid. Two decades on, Danielewski sees his relationship with his first book as that of a slightly distant parent. As Truant becomes increasingly obsessed with the story, so too does the reader. When Zampanò is found dead in his apartment, troubled tattoo artist Johnny Truant discovers his notes and inherits the fixation. The Navidson Record, his film of these explorations, becomes the intense focus of a blind man called Zampanò, who writes about the footage with lengthy, academic precision. When a mysterious doorway appears, leading to a maze of smooth, ash-grey walls, Will Navidson – the house’s owner, a Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist – goes in to investigate.
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