"I love horror, be it movies or literature, but not much actually scares me. The only book that doesn't apply to that is House of Leaves. It grows darker with every turn of the page and it slowly becomes a meta experience of following breadcrumbs through footnotes, swirling text (you physically have to pick up the book and spin it sometimes), and occasionally pages and pages of nothingness. The characters' madness kind of becomes your own as you physically and figuratively weave through the book and the time and space it creates and it crawls under your skin and stays there. It creates a very tangible experience (made all the more scary because it relies on your imagination) and it makes my hands shake talking about it!"—waitingwinterlong

"Hands-down one of the best and scariest books I've ever read. I carried it with me everywhere while I was reading it because I literally could not stop. It consumed my life. I barely slept. It will seriously mess you up." —laurenmatkinj

"Scared me so much I begin questioning reality itself. The multiple frames of the novel work in such a way that the core story of a house that does not obey the laws of physics and the family torn apart during their time there becomes more and more substantive and emotionally impacting. Reading this book, you won't know what's real and not real, and this uncertainty of reality can be one of the most frightening experiences you'll ever face."

—danbenfoster

"It just unnerves you every chance it gets, at times by physically making you read upside down, in a mirror, or along the margins. The fact that its main villain is a house, the place where you're supposed to feel safest, made it terrifying for me to read in bed, second-guessing every sound and shadow." —veronical4e390d725

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