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House of Leaves is a very advanced book to read, but the most engaging and scary book you will ever read. I highly recommend it, it the most incredible experience I have ever read.
The first couple of hundred pages can be a little boring and not very scary, but it's written as if you had found this in some old attic and that you're pieceing the story together yourself and as you start to do this, you will be scared. Part of what you are reading is the diary of someone just like you who had found that book and it's effect on him. The core plot of the story deals with a documentary (and it's aftermath) about a house that is bigger inside than it is outside.
The hard thing to read in the book is the text itself. Sometimes there is one word on a page, or the words are at a diagnal or upside down or backwards (you have to read those in a mirror) or it will be all these things on one page.
And then there are the footnotes. There are footnotes on just about everypage that will sometime last pages. Some of these footnotes are useless (they are just footnotes citing sources), but the rest of part of the story itself.
There are also hidden clues within the text itself and some things you will probably have to look up (I had no idea what Yggdrasil was), because part of the story you have to put together yourself.
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