History Trivia / HouseOfLeaves

* ColbertBump: Due to the heavy inspiration it took from the book, the ''VideoGame/DoomII'' map ''VideoGame/MyHouse'' would quickly draw attention towards ''[[HauntedHouse House]] of Leaves''. Not only does the former also take place in a [[AlienGeometries house]] that changes its layout, but the map also has some {{Shout Out}}s to the book.

* NewbieBoom: Received one in 2023 due to two rather unlikely sources. The first is the experimental horror film ''Film/{{Skinamarink}}'', whose premise of two children trapped in a suburban [[AlienGeometries house]] with an unseen and inscrutable antagonist who torments them via AlienGeometries is ''very'' similar to ''The Navidson Record''. The other is the aforementioned ''VideoGame/MyHouse'', an extraordinarily ambitious ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' WAD whose story and level design is ''heavily'' indebted to this novel, to the point of featuring a direct ShoutOut in an EasterEgg.
* NoAdaptationsAllowed: Creator/MarkZDanielewski has refused all offers of adapting the book, as by necessity it would have to discard the multiple layers of the NestedStory that's told through the footnotes, appendices, and bizarre formatting that make it such a compelling ScrapbookStory. In addition, most offers apparently only envision adapting the most straightforward of the book's elements--Navidson's story--and ignore the fact that it would make far less of an impact without Johnny, Zampanò, and all the other layers. Creator/{{Netflix}} ''did'' want to do an adaptation of the book with Danielewski, but the plans fell through. Danielewski decided to just release the PDF of the planned pilot screenplay.

** Mark Z. Danielewski's Jewish upbringing bleeds into the story in many subtle but important ways. Not only are many of the formatting choices ripped straight from the Talmud, but the [[EldritchAbomination house]] itself [[https://www.reddit.com/r/houseofleaves/comments/huq68c/the_house_follows_jewish_concepts_of_divinity/ has many traits in common with the Jewish conception of God]], and the story's dependence on multiple, nested layers of commentary can be likened to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash midrashim]].
** Johnny's adolescent wanderings throughout Europe were inspired by a similar period in Mark Z. Danielewski's own life. The Pelican Poems in the appendices, implied in the book to have been written by Johnny during this time, are actual poems that Danielewski wrote in honor of strangers he encountered during his travels. It should be noted that despite this, Danielewski has said in interviews that he went well out of his way during writing to make sure that Johnny wasn't a simple AuthorAvatar for himself and that his experiences with the [[BiggerOnTheInside house]] were his own.

* DoingItForTheArt: The sheer level of detail and thought that went into every single page of this book marks it out as a triumphant example of the trope. Beyond just the detail that goes into the [[EldritchLocation house]] itself, the sheer number of footnotes and obscure references are head-turning. According to one interview, Danielewski spent ''ten years'' writing the thing, spending about ten hours writing each day. Consider the footnotes, alone. Most of them are bogus entries... but the sources are not. So even if the footnote that quotes "New Perspectives Quarterly" isn't a real article, the magazine ''is'' real.

* DoingItForTheArt: The sheer level of detail and thought that went into every single page of this book marks it out as a triumphant example of the trope. According to one interview, Danielewski spent ''ten years'' writing the thing, spending about ten hours writing each day. Consider the footnotes, alone. Most of them are bogus entries... but the sources are not. So even if the footnote that quotes "New Perspectives Quarterly" isn't a real article, the magazine is.

** Johnny's adolescent wanderings throughout Europe were inspired by a similar period in Mark Z. Danielewski's own life. The Pelican Poems in the appendices, implied in the book to have been written by Johnny during this time, are actual poems that Danielewski wrote in honor of strangers he encountered during his travels. It should be noted that despite this, Danielewski has said in interviews that he went well out of his way during writing to make sure that Johnny wasn't a simple AuthorAvatar for himself.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mark Z. Danielewski's Jewish upbringing bleeds into the story in many subtle but important ways. Not only are many of the formatting choices ripped straight from the Talmud, but the [[EldritchAbomination house]] itself [[https://www.reddit.com/r/houseofleaves/comments/huq68c/the_house_follows_jewish_concepts_of_divinity/ has many traits in common with the Jewish conception of God]], and the story's dependence on multiple, nested layers of commentary can be likened to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash midrashim]].

* NoAdaptationsAllowed: Creator/MarkZDanielewski has refused all offers of adapting the book, as by necessity it would have to discard the multiple layers of the NestedStory that's told through the footnotes, appendices, and bizarre formatting that make it such a compelling ScrapbookStory. In addition, most offers apparently only envision adapting the most straightforward of the book's elements--Navidson's story--and ignore the fact that it would make far less of an impact without Johnny, Zampanò, and all the other layers. Creator/{{Netflix}} ''did'' want to do an adaptation of the book with Danielewski, but the plans fell threw. Danielewski decided to just release the PDF of the planned pilot screenplay.

* NoAdaptationsAllowed: Creator/MarkZDanielewski has refused all offers of adapting the book, as by necessity it would have to discard the multiple layers of the NestedStory that's told through the footnotes, appendices, and bizarre formatting that make it such a compelling ScrapbookStory. In addition, most offers apparently only envision adapting the most straightforward of the book's elements--Navidson's story--and ignore the fact that it would make far less of an impact without Johnny, Zampanò, and all the other layers. He ''did'' however release a PDF of a planned screenplay for an originally planned pilot he wanted to make for ''House''.

* DoingItForTheArt: The sheer level of detail and thought that went into every single page of this book marks it out as a triumphant example of the trope. According to one interview, Danielewski spent ''ten years'' writing the thing, spending about ten hours writing each day. Consider the footnotes, alone. Most of them are bogus entries...but the sources are not. So even if the footnote that quotes "New Perspectives Quarterly" isn't a real article, the magazine is.

* NoAdaptationsAllowed: Creator/MarkZDanielewski has refused all offers of adapting the book, as by necessity it would have to discard the multiple layers of the NestedStory that's told through the footnotes, appendices, and bizarre formatting that make it such a compelling ScrapbookStory. In addition, most offers apparently only envision adapting the most straightforward of the book's elements--Navidson's story--and ignore the fact that it would make far less of an impact without Johnny, Zampanò, and all the other layers.

* DoingItForTheArt: The sheer level of detail and thought that went into every single page of this book marks it out as a triumphant example of the trope. According to one interview, Danielewski spent ''ten years'' writing the thing, spending about ten hours writing each day.
** No kidding. Consider the footnotes, alone. Most of them are bogus entries...but the sources are not. So even if the footnote that quotes "New Perspectives Quarterly" isn't a real article, the magazine is.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: By the book's 2000 publication, Johnny's 1990s TheSlacker persona was already borderline dated. As time moves along, he increasingly resembles an ill-conceived beatnik or hippie stereotype from the media of earlier generations.

** To be honest, that kind of makes his character even more compelling to me. It makes him even more out-of-place in his role in this whole affair.

* NoAdaptationsAllowed: Creator/MarkZDanielewski has refused all offers of adapting the book, as by necessity it would have to discard the multiple layers of the NestedStory that's told through the footnotes, appendices, and bizarre formatting that make it such a compelling ScrapbookStory. In addition, most offers apparently only envision adapting the most straightforward of the book's elements, Navison's story, and ignore the fact that it would make far less of an impact without Johnny, Zampan, and all the other layers.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: By the book's 2000 publication, Johnny's 1990s {{Slacker}} persona was already borderline dated. As time moves along, he increasingly resembles an ill-conceived beatnik or hippie stereotype from the media of earlier generations.

* WordOfGod states that the colour blue is used in a manner analogous to ChromaKey. [[WildMassGuessing Start scratching your heads, folks...]]