"The first edition of House of leaves was privately distributed and did not contain Chapter 21, Appendix II, Appendix III, or the index"--Foreword. Johnny Truant is a fictional character in the novel. "A novel"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"[...] a young family [that] moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams"--Book cover flap.