House of Leaves uses blue to a strange effect, but why?

1. Blue
House

2. Why So Blue?
• Blue flash(es) (backs)
• The Descent into the Blue
• Johnny’s House of Blues

3. The Navidson Record
(‘Documentary’ by Will
Navidson)
Johnny Truant’s
editing of Zampanò’s study of
Zampanò’s study The Navidson Record

5. Online Sources
for Tracing
Trauma
House of
Leaves’ index:

6. Traumatic Intrusions and Psychic Storms

7. N i g h t m a r e s
H a l l u c i n a t i o n s

8. “One terrifying flash of blue …”

9. “The shadows
will bleed …”
“The Shadows will bleed.”

10. An Introspective Inferno

11. The Descent

12. “…the sight of darkness
itself …”

13. Into the Blue

14. Yggdrasil: “Some wicked family tree…”

15. Conceptual model of the House

16. Johnny’s House of Blues …
“The Ice House…”

17. “Darkness Visible”

18. Johnny’s
Delirious
Drawings …

19. “One need not be a
house to be haunted
…”
The roots of post-
traumatic blues are
ultimately within.

20. Just Some Blueprints