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3rd Jan '13 2:18:19 PM Gregzilla

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* The scene where the house actually starts trying to kill the occupants. All this time, it had just been a static anomaly, safely locked away... then suddenly it isn't. OH GOD.
** Especially the description of how the ashy black color from inside the labyrinth creeps across the previously normal walls of the house like ink spilling across a page.
* The part where everything the house ''doesn't'' have is described. For best results, picture it as a [[MadnessMantra a rant coming from someone who has COMPLETELY lost their mind]]. Then while the format of the book changes to make it into a literal textual labyrinth, pretend that the rant is still being spoken in the background while you're reading the other scenes. Or that they keep alternating. And then..."[[color:red: Picture that. In your dreams.]]" Gives me the chills.
* The word "[[color:gray:house]]" itself in the black-and-white edition. I can't speak for the other editions, but in this one there is only one understated PaintingTheMedium effect, and it's more effective than the more colourful ones sound to be. The word is always printed in grey and is randomly slightly displaced from the row of text in some direction by less than a millimetre, except when it randomly isn't. It varies page by page. Maybe that's even just a technical problem they were having with the different colour, but it works. Eventually you cringe every time you see the word. It really goes with the theme of how eldritch and uncanny the [[color:gray:House]] is.

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* The scene where the house actually starts trying to kill the occupants. All this time, it had just been a static anomaly, safely locked away... then suddenly it isn't. Especially the description of how the ashy black color from inside the labyrinth creeps across the previously normal walls of the house like ink spilling across a page.
* The part where everything the house ''doesn't'' have is described. For best results, picture it as a [[MadnessMantra rant coming from someone who has COMPLETELY lost their mind]]. Then while the format of the book changes to make it into a literal textual labyrinth, pretend that the rant is still being spoken in the background while you're reading the other scenes. Or that they keep alternating. And then... "[[color:red:Picture that. In your dreams.]]"
* The word "[[color:gray:house]]" itself in the black-and-white edition. In this edition there is only one understated PaintingTheMedium effect, and it's more effective than the more colourful ones sound to be. The word is always printed in grey and is randomly slightly displaced from the row of text in some direction by less than a millimetre, except when it randomly isn't. It varies page by page. Maybe that's even just a technical problem they were having with the different colour, but it works. Eventually you cringe every time you see the word. It really goes with the theme of how eldritch and uncanny the [[color:gray:House]] is.

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21st Sep '12 9:18:47 PM thesunisup

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28th Jul '12 1:29:00 PM Doryna

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2nd May '12 3:04:45 PM LongLiveHumour

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* The word "[[color:gray:house]]" itself in the black-and-white edition. I can't speak for the other editions, but in this one, there is only one understated PaintingTheFourthWall effect, and it's more effective than the more colourful ones sound to be. The word is always printed in grey and is randomly slightly displaced from the row of text in some direction, by guess less than a millimetre but still noticeably, except when it randomly isn't. It varies page by page. Maybe that's even just a technical problem they were having with the different colour, but it works. To begin with, I just thought, well, he's used an effect like that, kind of clever. But as time went on I began to gringe every time I saw the word. It really goes with the theme of how eldritch and uncanny the [[color:gray:House]] is.
* As somebody who suffered having their mother sent to a mental facility at a young age, the descriptions of the events that had her sent to Whalestoe are fairly disturbing. The Pelafina letters, however, are so spot on that they doubled as HONF and TearJerker for me.
* Johnny's attack in the tattoo parlor, where he panics, seizes up, and loses his ability to breathe, afterward finding ten finger marks on his throat. Scary, but only becomes real HONF when [[spoiler:you find out later in the Whalestoe letters that his mother tried to strangle him as an infant, and for whatever reason the sensation has repeated itself years later.]]
* Johnny doesn't become aware until well into the novel that he is looking more disheveled and crazy the more he obsesses over the manuscript, neglecting himself so much that his teeth start to rot by the end of the book.

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* The word "[[color:gray:house]]" itself in the black-and-white edition. I can't speak for the other editions, but in this one there is only one understated PaintingTheFourthWall effect, and it's more effective than the more colourful ones sound to be. The word is always printed in grey and is randomly slightly displaced from the row of text in some direction by less than a millimetre, except when it randomly isn't. It varies page by page. Maybe that's even just a technical problem they were having with the different colour, but it works. Eventually you cringe every time you see the word. It really goes with the theme of how eldritch and uncanny the [[color:gray:House]] is.
* The descriptions of the events that had Johnny's mother sent to Whalestoe are fairly disturbing. The Pelafina letters, however, are terribly spot on for mental illness.
* Johnny's attack in the tattoo parlor, where he panics, seizes up and loses his ability to breathe, afterward finding ten finger marks on his throat. Scary, but only becomes real HONF when [[spoiler:you find out later in the Whalestoe letters that his mother tried to strangle him as an infant, and for whatever reason the sensation has repeated itself years later.]]
* Johnny doesn't become aware until well into the novel that he is looking more dishevelled and crazy the more he obsesses over the manuscript, neglecting himself so much that his teeth start to rot by the end of the book.
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