NovaStarr Wrote:
Never read it before. What's it about?
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It's...it's about three stories, intricately interwoven and equally strange.
In it's heart is a long essay written by a old blind man named Zampano about a film documentary called The Navidson Record. The Navidson Record is about a man, Will Navidson, his wife and his two children, as they settle into their new house in Virginia.
The house is terribly, terribly wrong. They leave it for a week and upon returning, a new hallway has formed between the two bedrooms which had not existed before; it is death-black, totally empty, and freezing cold. Upon measuring it they find that it is wider than the house is.
Another such hallway appears in the downstairs foyer, this hallway grows and grows and grows until a massive labyrinth, rumoredly deeper than the Earth itself, is inside their house.
This documenary is a great deal of the book. By Zampano never finished his essay, and upon his death it fell into the hands of one Johnny Truant, and the second part of the book is a first-person account of his growing obsession with the essay and the horror it instills in him.
Further, there is yet another story woven into the book, one that details Johnny himself, his life, his family, his experiences, and later Zampano's life as well.
It's an incredible read.
