148: Backlist: Mark Z. Danielewski (HOUSE OF LEAVES)

In This Episode:

Nobody is going to win the ToB bet for the Super Rooster (because it has been wild) so the guys decide to jointly pick a Backlist author: Mark Z. Danielewski! They descend into his twenty-year-old House of Leaves with much talk of ergodic literature, dreams, home-buying, and more. We promise no jump-scares in this one!

The Ep. 148 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE’S BOOK:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Night Worms (October package): The Cipher by Kathe Koja // The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson // coffee, stickers, bookmarks!
Christopher: Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini // XX by Rian Hughes // Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

ALSO MENTIONED:

Stranger Things (2016-present, created by the Duffer Brothers)
Twin Peaks (1990-1992 + 2017, created by Mark Frost and David Lynch)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, directed by Steven Spielberg)
The Happening (2008, directed by M. Night Shyamalan)
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
You Should Have Left (2020, adapted and directed by David Koepp)
The Navidson Record by Zampanò
The Talmud
Poltergeist (1982, directed by Tobe Hooper or maybe Steven Spielberg)
”Year Zero” by Nine Inch Nails
Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantok
The Familiar by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
Hitchcock (2012, directed by Sacha Gervasi)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Roald Dahl Presents
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Shining (1980, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick)
Signs (2004, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Fisherman by John Langan // The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Christopher: classic horror cinema for scaredy-cats, particularly Rosemary’s Baby, Carrie, and Psycho

The Damn Bar