House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

Years ago, House of Leaves was nothing more than a messy stack of photocopied pages—an odd, unsettling manuscript whispered about on the Internet. No one could have predicted how that heap of paper would gather a cult of the curious: tattoo artists, coders, musicians, strippers, adrenaline junkies, and eventually even their parents, who found in its disjointed margins both reflections of themselves and tenuous bridges back to their estranged children.

Now published in its full, unaltered form—colored words, sideways footnotes, appendices upon appendices—the fascination hasn’t dimmed. The book has inspired academic theses, urban legends like “the backrooms,” and art across mediums from music to video games.

At its core lies the story of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Will Navidson and his partner, Karen Green, who move into a house that shouldn’t be possible. When their children vanish and their voices echo back from a void that shouldn’t exist, the family is drawn into a labyrinth of shifting walls, unholy growls, and a darkness that threatens to devour not just their home, but their sanity.