House of Leaves

by

Zampano

with introduction and notes by

Johnny Truant

2 ^nd Edition

Pantheon Books New York

Copyright © 2000 by Mark Z. Danielewski All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright

Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of

Random House, Inc. Permissions acknowledgments and illustration credits appear on pages 707-708. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Danielewski, Mark Z. House of leaves / Mark Z. Danielewski. p. cm. ISBN 0-375-70376-4 (pbk) ISBN 0-375-42052-5 (he) ISBN 0-375-41034-1 (he/signed) I. Title.

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This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, establishments, organizations or locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Other names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, as are those fictionalized events and incidents which involve real persons and did not occur or are set in the future. — Ed.