ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways House of Leaves creates a complex experience of uncertainty both with its themes and content, such as fear, anxiety, and other mental problems, and its form and structure. These phenomena are often deeply intertwined with concepts of spatiality. Besides that, the novel seems to construct an especially strong and influential engagement with its reader, which perhaps is due to its multimodal nature and its peculiar strategies of narration. The analysis of this novel is largely focused on the effect disnarration has on the readerly experience. The novel presents an extremely unpredictable story on the level of events, narrative space, and narration as well, and produces a constant and uniquely complex uncertainty in the reader. During the interpretation of the story, this dynamism plays an important role as it deprives the reader of epistemic control on nearly all levels of the narrative.
