Episode 96: House of Leaves Series Recap 2/5: And These Shadows Keep On Changing
Episode resources:
Previous episode recap: 1/5: So Many Splintered Trees (replay from the pantry of Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: 70: resources, on-site listen for paid subscribers)
House of Leaves read-along information and list of episodes so far in the series
List of transcripts for episodes (available to all subscribers)
In which Carla recaps the second episode (Ergodic) in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in, cupcakes. This is the only map we have.
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The House of Leaves universe:
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves
- Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple, Spotify, Amazon
Referenced:
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1. Griffin and Sabine
2. Sabine’s Notebook
3. The Golden Mean
4. The Pharos Gate
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Some of Ellen Hopkins’ prose poetry books:
Tricks and Traffick
Burned and Smoke
Perfect
Impulse
Crank, Glass, and Fallout
The Last House on the Left
Grave Encounters
In the Mouth of Madness
Joel-Peter Witkin: An Objective Eye
Sources:
https://religionpopculture.home.blog/2019/04/21/exploring-labyrinths-and-voids-in-house-of-leaves/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/house-of-leaves-changed-my-life-the-cult-novel-at-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
https://parapedia.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Leaves
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarspeth
Cybertexts by Bruce Boston
https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-hypergraphia.htm
https://bipolar-101.blogspot.com/2012/06/hypergraphia-compulsion-to-write-in.html
http://www.doctorsreview.com/history/hypergraphia-two-sided-affliction/
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/a-day-in-the-life
List of ergodic literature on Goodreads
Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission.
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