* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a work of fiction revolving around the discovery of a manuscript critiquing a documentary called The Navidson Record and its effects on both its author and editor.

* House of Leaves, a novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

His use of it has inspired other authors ' works ( e. g. Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves ).

* Mark Z. Danielewski's novel " House of Leaves " centers around a house containing an infinite number of rooms.

" The album also dovetails with themes and concepts from her brother Mark's postmodern novel House of Leaves ; the CD and the book were released simultaneously.

Mark Z. Danielewski, born March 5, 1966 in New York City, New York, is an American author, best known for his debut novel House of Leaves ( 2000 ).

House of Leaves, Danielewski's innovative first novel, has continued to gain a global cult following and won numerous awards, including the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.

In 2000, Danielewski toured with his sister across America at Borders Books and Music locations, promoting Poe ’ s album Haunted, which reflects elements of House of Leaves.

* March 2000: House of Leaves

House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books.

House of Leaves has been described as a " satire of academic criticism.

House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee and professed unreliable narrator.

This first happens when Zampanò writes that the hallway is in the western wall ( House of Leaves 57 ), directly contradicting an earlier page where the hallway is mentioned to be in the northern wall ( House of Leaves 4 ).

The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away " ( House of Leaves 11 – 12 ).

For example, several times Zampanò cites an actual Time-Life book, Planet Earth: Underground Worlds ( House of Leaves 125 ).

The reader also slowly learns more about Johnny's childhood living with an abusive foster father, engaging in violent fights at school, and of the origin of Johnny's mysterious scars ( House of Leaves, p. 505 ).

He even has hallucinations that parallel those of Zampanò and members of the house search team when he senses "… something inhuman …" behind him ( House of Leaves 26 ).

Later in his life, he moves to the eponymous house ( located in the southeastern Virginia countryside ), in an effort to find " place to drink lemonade and watch the sun set ", a place to " once and for all stay in and explore the quieter side of life " ( House of Leaves, p. 9 ).

This section is referred to in the book as a " sometimes funny, sometimes bizarre history of thoughts passing away in the atrocity of that darkness " ( House of Leaves 252 ).

Throughout the entirety of House of Leaves ( even including the cover and publishing information ), the word " house " is colored blue ( gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for red editions ), as in < span style =" color :# 6086d1 ;"> house </ span >, and is, in many places in the book, offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times.

Red and full-color editions of House of Leaves have the word Minotaur and all struck passages colored red.

In particular, the Arabian Nights tale of " Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad " revolves around a house haunted by jinns.

* The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliff includes a telling of the Tam Lin tale, which parallels the novel's theme of a young girl struggling to obtain her dreams.

There is a short tale written by Jorge Luis Borges (" The House of Asterion ") telling the story of Theseus and Ariadne from the point-of-view of Asterius.

Howard also used the name of ' Nabonidus ' ( father of Belshazzar ) in the Conan tale " Rogues in the House " which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian # 11.

The House of Niccolò, which was written after the Lymond Chronicles, tells the tale of Lymond's ancestors in the previous century and includes allusions to events in the Lymond Chronicles.

One such tale holds that Sessions House is inhabited by the ghost of Lucy Hunt, who died of a broken heart after being separated from her lover, General Burgoyne.

* Interludes of the divertimento kind can be found in Leoš Janáček's last, sombre opera From the House of the Dead ( 1928 ): releasing the tension after Skuratov's disheartening tale at the centre of the second act, two an " opera " and a " pantomime " within the larger opera are executed consecutively by a cast of prisoners, both presentations farcical variations on the Don Juan theme, and mirroring the religious ceremony divertimento before the Skuratov tale.

This tense tale of highly skilled martial artists hidden in an inn in part resembles Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and was said to be the inspiration behind it ; Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers was also said to be dedicated to this film.

The explicit psychological dimension of this tale has prompted many critics to analyze it as a description of the human psyche, comparing, for instance, the House to the unconscious, and its central crack to the personality split which is called dissociative identity disorder.

Friends and fellow actors Mr. and Mrs. Luke Usher ( the name may have inspired Poe's tale " The Fall of the House of Usher ") took care of the children during Eliza's illness and many in the Richmond area took an interest in her health.

The public invented their own stories, including a tale that the sound of digging had been heard near the House of Commons and rumours of a French invasion in the Isle of Purbeck.

Leaning on oral tradition, it is one of the first literary versions of the tale of Melusine the water-nymph with a serpentine tail who married a mortal and supernaturally guided the spectacular rise and subsequent fall of the House of Lusignan with many digressions and inner stories.

He addresses the topic of same-sex love in the tale Cuìyǎ lóu ( 萃雅樓, " House of Gathered Refinements ").

Other films Mitch Davis has written and directed include Windrunner, as well as the romance A House Divided, a modern day tale of Jewish man's undying love for a Palestinian woman in Israel.

Motivated by the popularity of Storybook and television broadcasts of Temple's films, the Ideal Toy Company released a new version of the Shirley Temple doll and Random House published three fairy tale anthologies under Temple's name.

Whitaker likened First Daughter to a fairy tale, characterizing it as " the story of a princess who leaves the ' castle ' White House to go out in the world to discover who and what she is.

The director delivered one of his most potent films yet with Life as a House ( 2001 ), a complex, emotional and frequently amusing tale featuring a depressed dying man ( Kevin Kline ) who funnels his energies into rebuilding the dilapidated beach shack he inherited from his abusive father and, in the process, building bridges between himself and his disaffected son ( Hayden Christensen ).

For example, it is the Elohist version of the tale of Jacob's ladder in which there is a ladder of angels with God at the top, leading to Jacob later dedicating the place as Beth-El ( House of God ), whereas in the Jahwist tale, it is a simple dream in which God is simply above the location, without the ladder or angels.

In July, 2012, Schroeder stepped out of retirement to narrate a children's book app, " The House that Went on Strike ", a rhyming, interactive and musical tale that teaches kids ( and their parents ) respect for the household.

Prior to the 15th century, this location was instead considered to be the House of the Poor Man, and honoured as the fifth station for that reason ; the name refers to the Lukan tale of Lazarus and Dives, this Lazarus being a beggar, and Dives being the Latin word for who is Rich.

* Traitor in the House, The ( half-told tale )

The House of Niccolò, which was written after the Lymond Chronicles, tells the tale of Lymond's ancestors in the previous century and includes allusions to events in the Lymond Chronicles.