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Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House

🕑 Added 2019-09-05 14:31:00 +0000 UTC

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Jan

Just wanted to let you know this video made me read House of Leaves AND play Control the last couple of weeks. The first I have been wanting to read for maybe more than 10 years and this gave me a gentle push. :) Enjoyed the book (finished) and still playing the game. Although my brain is kind of intermixing the two universa sometimes.

Joshua Morse

Really enjoyed this

Fletcher Porter

This video reminded me of the book I'm reading right now. It's a collection of short stories by Lord Dunsany Called "A Dreamer's Tales". The story "Blagdaross" is a series of ministories told by objects around the room; one by a tea kettle and its recollection of it boiling water while people danced around it, one by a bit of rope about its experience being used to hang a guy, and one by a rocking horse expressing its anger that it isn't being played with anymore. Another story, "The Madness of Andelsprutz" personifies entire cities, telling of the loss of their souls. The whole book has been really good so far. The stories are very dark and weird, but vivid and beautiful, and the prose is very good, though archaic.

Ah someone else who has read House of Leaves. I knew I liked you. More on topic, it does seem to be somewhat of a reoccurring theme of yours - architecture in general obviously, but specifically the horror of physical spaces not behaving logically. Curious if this was intentional, or just a natural extension of your interests.

I may or may not be writing a comic about a paranormal investigator that moves into a haunted house and falls in love with the ghost there, so the idea of the house itself being the malicious entity is so fucking cool and new to me. I really need to finish House of Leaves. Great video as always, I love the way you make nonfiction videos (can i call them that? like nonfiction books?) into narratives themselves.