[ SECRET POST #3642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3642 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Brittany Murphy]



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Comments

[soldatsasha]

It's been so long since I've read it that I honestly remember NOTHING about the book, but... I sort of feel like you're falling into the 'Seinfeld Is Unfunny' trap.

Internet creepypasta does predate the book by a few years (I lurked on /x/ a lot back in those days) and a lot of the book seemed to be styled after that early /x/style horror. But creepypasta back then basically didn't exist off 4chan and a few other weird internet spaces. HoL probably can be credited with making the genre somewhat mainstream, honestly.

I'm not surprised that tumblr/LJ fandom would pick up on it a few years later and rave about it. To them it was probably the coolest thing ever because they aren't /x/files and aren't familiar enough with the genre to find it played out or derivative. There's a pretty big divide between tumblr/LJ fandom and *chan fandom, and things that are popular in one sometimes take a while to migrate to the other.

[(Anonymous)]

Again, not to labor the point too much, but the book was written and published before 4chan existed, let alone /x/. The book couldn't possibly be styled after stuff that was written on /x/. I think it's much more likely that the people who were posting on /x/ had read House of Leaves and so that's how the line of influence ran. It certainly accords with my recollection of people talking about House of Leaves on 4chan and similar places. But at absolute most, you're talking about independent discovery.

[soldatsasha]

You're right, I was actually thinking of a different book that came out in about 2006. I'm trying to figure out what the hell it was called but my google-fu is failing me.

[(Anonymous)]

It predates creepypasta though. It was published in 2001. And he spent a decade writing it. HoL wasn't inspired by creepypasta, creepypasta most likely formed as a result of HoL fans raving about it. Its credited in the sense of getting it to mainstream because it's a book. But it's also a credit to the formation of the concept of creepypasta itself.

Does it hold up today? Probably not. But it's still the pioneer of the genre.