
Ergodic: House of Leaves: 70
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05/22/21 • 32 min
First episode in this series: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43799576
The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375714412
Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple https://apple.co/2MT62F4, Spotify https://spoti.fi/3c2RsDq, Amazon https://amzn.to/3t0qkMy
Referenced:
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1. Griffin and Sabine https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781452155951
2. Sabine’s Notebook https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780811801805
3. The Golden Mean https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780811802987
4. The Pharos Gate https://amzn.to/3dGBSQ2
Night Film by Marisha Pessl https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780812979787
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679723424
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679727293
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679725220
Some of Ellen Hopkins’ prose poetry books:
Tricks and Traffick https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781481498258
Burned and Smoke https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781481498364
Perfect https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416983255
Impulse https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416903574
Crank, Glass, and Fallout https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781442499591
The Last House on the Left https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0760137288688
Grave Encounters https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0810072542632
In the Mouth of Madness https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0826663188745
Joel-Peter Witkin: An Objective Eye https://letterboxd.com/film/joel-peter-witkin-an-objective-eye/
Sources:
https://religionpopculture.home.blog/2019/04/21/exploring-labyrinths-and-voids-in-house-of-leaves/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/house-of-leaves-changed-my-life-the-cult-novel-at-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
https://parapedia.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Leaves
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarspeth https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780801855795
Cybertexts by Bruce Boston https://amzn.to/3wp6sV4
https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-hypergraphia.htm
https://bipolar-101.blogspot.com/2012/06/hypergraphia-compulsion-to-write-in.html
First episode in this series: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43799576
The House of Leaves universe:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768
The Whalestoe Letters: From House of Leaves https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375714412
Poe’s album “Haunted”: Apple https://apple.co/2MT62F4, Spotify https://spoti.fi/3c2RsDq, Amazon https://amzn.to/3t0qkMy
Referenced:
The Griffin and Sabine Series by Nick Bantock:
1. Griffin and Sabine https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781452155951
2. Sabine’s Notebook https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780811801805
3. The Golden Mean https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780811802987
4. The Pharos Gate https://amzn.to/3dGBSQ2
Night Film by Marisha Pessl https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780812979787
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679723424
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679727293
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679725220
Some of Ellen Hopkins’ prose poetry books:
Tricks and Traffick https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781481498258
Burned and Smoke https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781481498364
Perfect https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416983255
Impulse https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781416903574
Crank, Glass, and Fallout https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781442499591
The Last House on the Left https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0760137288688
Grave Encounters https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0810072542632
In the Mouth of Madness https://bookshop.org/a/6560/0826663188745
Joel-Peter Witkin: An Objective Eye https://letterboxd.com/film/joel-peter-witkin-an-objective-eye/
Sources:
https://religionpopculture.home.blog/2019/04/21/exploring-labyrinths-and-voids-in-house-of-leaves/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/02/house-of-leaves-changed-my-life-the-cult-novel-at-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
https://parapedia.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Leaves
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarspeth https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780801855795
Cybertexts by Bruce Boston https://amzn.to/3wp6sV4
https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-hypergraphia.htm
https://bipolar-101.blogspot.com/2012/06/hypergraphia-compulsion-to-write-in.html
Previous Episode

Four Cupcakes: 69
In which Carla celebrated four years of There Might Be Cupcakes! (April 28, 2017)
Sources:
https://poestories.com/read/alone
https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/alonea.htm
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780836204384
Greg Behrendt, “There Might Be Cake” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxOIvC9cC0
Episodes referenced:
1. Poe and Carla and Cupcakes: Nicetameetcha https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132350
Website entry: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-1-poe-carla-cupcakes/
34: This Girl Just Had a Bad Date https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132371
64: Hounds of Love (live poetry) https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132317
68: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43799576
Suggested reading:
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780448095011
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781449433253
Nina and Tim’s podcasts:
Already Gone http://alreadygonepodcast.com
Don’t Talk to Strangers http://dttspodcast.com
Dead Ball https://play.acast.com/s/deadball
Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission
How to Support Cupcakes:
Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R
Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/theremightbecupcakes
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.
Where to Find Cupcakes:
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes
Twitter: @mightbecupcakes
Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group
Contact: [email protected]
Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.
Next Episode

Red Death: 71
In which Carla explores Poe’s plague, and its relationship to Shakespeare’s desert island.
Sources:
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781500497248
The story at the Poe Museum: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death
The story with annotated vocabulary: https://poestories.com/read/masque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero
The Tempest by William Shakespeare https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780198325000
https://www.geni.com/people/Virginia-Poe/6000000008462677282
Adaptations of Poe’s work:
Music: Jason Mulligan’s Concert Drama: https://jasonmulligan.net/vocal-1/the-masque-of-the-red-death
Christopher Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero%27s_Rooms
https://music.apple.com/us/album/prosperos-rooms/1106607427?i=1106607860
Movies:
The Plague of Florence (1919) https://boxd.it/8Rcu
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Vincent Prince https://boxd.it/1w12
La maschera della morte rossa (1971) https://boxd.it/eM8O
The Masque of the Red Death (1989) Frank Stallone https://boxd.it/1l9uan
Referenced episodes:
1: Poe and Carla and Cupcakes: Nicetameetcha https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132350
10: Boo Without Goo: Scary Movies for the Squeamish https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43132360
68: Bone-Chimes and Primitive Spiders: House of Leaves 1 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43799576
70: Ergodic: House of Leaves 2 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44973302
Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission
How to Support Cupcakes:
Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R
Care/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/theremightbecupcakes
and please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.
Where to Find Cupcakes:
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakes
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakes
Twitter: @mightbecupcakes
Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahaunted
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakes
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-group
Contact: [email protected]
Complete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast--4761852/support.
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