Right before the pandemic, Mark Z. Danielewski — best known for the iconic and experimental 2000 horror novel “ House of Leaves ” — was inspired to write about Provo, Utah, the place he called home from the age of 10 until he went to college. He didn’t think it would be a long story. But then he was overtaken by the voice .

“I genuinely thought it was going to be a novella,” he says. “I even pictured it with all the design elements that I love. It wasn’t a ghost story. And then suddenly, as I began to write it, the importance of those typographical moves I worked on for 20 years began to just disappear as a voice established itself within me. I describe it as the voice of the woods. It was this light voice, almost from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: ‘Come in here, Mark. Come among the

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