A book that is somewhat similar to The Blair Witch Project (movie)
The story doesn't have to be that similar; I'm just looking for something that generally feels like watching The Blair Witch Project, which is one of my favorite movies.
Thanks.
You might be interested in ergodic literature, which is less a book you read cover to cover and more an intricate written-word puzzle box you have to interact with to move through the story. I love the “found footage” genre of Blair Witch, and a lot of ergodic novels are similar in that you often read artifacts from the main characters’ lives (like an email or journal entry or a scribbled shopping list), rather than a book that just says “and then person x did this and person y said that.”
If it sounds interesting at all, I cannot recommend **House of Leaves** by Mark Danielewski enough. It’s pretty dense – and I definitely need the dictionary app on my phone to get through it!but it is so immersive. I think of it as the horror book version of those Russian nesting dolls. *House of Leaves* is a memoir about a manuscript about a documentary about a house that is larger on the inside than the outside. Creepy, atmospheric horror up to a level 15 (out of 10), but also it just feels so immersive and raw and weird and a little voyeuristic to paw through not only the book, but the compiled personal items of the author(s).
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
You might be interested in ergodic literature, which is less a book you read cover to cover and more an intricate written-word puzzle box you have to interact with to move through the story. I love the “found footage” genre of Blair Witch, and a lot of ergodic novels are similar in that you often read artifacts from the main characters’ lives (like an email or journal entry or a scribbled shopping list), rather than a book that just says “and then person x did this and person y said that.”
If it sounds interesting at all, I cannot recommend **House of Leaves** by Mark Danielewski enough. It’s pretty dense – and I definitely need the dictionary app on my phone to get through it!but it is so immersive. I think of it as the horror book version of those Russian nesting dolls. *House of Leaves* is a memoir about a manuscript about a documentary about a house that is larger on the inside than the outside. Creepy, atmospheric horror up to a level 15 (out of 10), but also it just feels so immersive and raw and weird and a little voyeuristic to paw through not only the book, but the compiled personal items of the author(s).