20+ Spine-Tingling Haunted House Books to Read This Halloween

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is a monster of a book in more ways than one. Told through a mix of traditional storytelling and footnotes, the story of a labyrinthine house that's bigger on the inside is the novel equivalent of a found footage film. It's next to impossible to boil the story down to a simple synopsis, but in part, it's about a family whose children become lost in their strange new home and the eerie messages they begin sending to their frightened parents.