Announced as beginning a novel or sequence eventually to reach twenty-seven volumes, the work appears to be unequivocal sf. It is in his next work, the immensely long novel inaugurated by The Familiar, Volume 1: "One Rainy Day in May" ( 2015), that Danielewski dramatizes fantastic elements in a "literal" manner. The volume of online commentary that the novel has provoked testifies to its amenability to being read, notwithstanding its postmodern strategies and intertextual structure (see Postmodernism and SF), as a work of horror.ĭanielewski's next novel, The Fifty Year Sword ( 20), similarly employs the tropes of the ghost story, while Only Revolutions ( 2006) – published in a Dos-à-Dos format with its two narratives back-to-back – tells of two American teenagers who fall in love and hit the road the fact that their sojourn together occupies the years 1863-1963 for him and 1963-2063 for her is presented in the logic of dreams or visionary experience (see Timeslip). It is not technically a work of Fantastika, as the elements of horror (see Horror in SF) in its detailed account of a family's ordeal, in a house that opens upon enormous and sinister spaces (see Creepypasta Labyrinths), prove to be part of a text produced by an unreliable narrator but the intensity of its dramatization, and the richness of detail in Danielewski's description of these unmappable (and dangerous) chambers and successive attempts to explore them, deeply and complexly inform the work, and account for a large part of its 709 pages. (1966- ) US author who gained considerable attention for his first novel House of Leaves ( 2000).
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