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# Episode 95: House of Leaves series recap 1/5: So Many Splintered Trees
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-95-house-of-leaves-series-recap-1-5-so-many-splintered-trees/
- Published: 2025-03-02T20:40:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-02T20:44:52.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, episode 95, episode 68, House of Leaves, Podcast, Mark Z. Danielewski

[Transcripts for the series (available to all subscribers)](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/transcripts-house-of-leaves-series-2/)

[Resources for episode 68: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-68-bone-chimes-and-primitive-spiders-house-of-leaves/)

[House of Leaves read along hosted at The StoryGraph](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/house-of-leaves-read-along/)

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In which Carla recaps the first episode in the series on the universe of the horror novel House of Leaves, so that we may go deeper. Further down and further in.

**The House of Leaves universe:**

- [House of Leaves](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com) by Mark Z. Danielewski
- [The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375714412?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com)
- Poe’s album “Haunted”: [Apple](https://apple.co/2MT62F4?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com), [Spotify](https://spoti.fi/3c2RsDq?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com), [Amazon](https://amzn.to/3t0qkMy?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com)

**Demented domiciles**: the term I coined for houses in literature and movies for houses that are just Not Right. My favorite is [Anne Rivers Siddons’ The House Next Door.](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416553441?ref=theremightbecupcakes.com)

**mentioned in the episode**: [The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143129370) (second favorite, okay tied for favorite)

[The Divine Comedy I: Inferno](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780521539944) by Dante Aligheri, translated by Robin Kirkpatrick 

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission.

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