Although House Of Leaves is odd it is not even the oddest thing Mark Z Danielewski has written, and there’s pretty strong competition from others. Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany is more restrained in its typography but has a strange looping narrative that starts and ends in the middle of the same sentence; Lanark by Alasdair Gray has incredible typographic feats and certainly a strange story; and the works of B S Johnson probably have them all beat.

And then there are things like Cyberpositive by 0(rphan)d(rift>)…