RaveThe Wall Street JournalAn intricate, erudite and deeply frightening book. The story – one of them, anyway – follows photographer Navidson and his family as their house begins to shift around them … Then there are the book's ‘special effects,’ including pages-long footnotes, footnoted footnotes, pieces of text running diagonally across a page or in a small block in the middle. And the word ‘house’ appears in blue ink. If it sounds distracting or irritating, it's not. Mr. Danielewski's typographical mischief is all cleverly designed to intensify the creepy power of his engrossing novel.
