[Doc Faustus]

Of course some Indie kids swear by it, but a lot of these kids haven't read Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow. Check that out instead. Danielewski uses a lot of smoke and mirrors to compensate for his lack of talent and did not invent metafiction, contrary to the beliefs of the red plaid Hot Topic pants community. For a similarly puzzling and intellectually playful book with more heart, a lot of laughs and a bigger mindfuck fact6r, I'd recommend Eckhard Gerdes' My Landlady the Lobotomist. But, if you're looking for that kind of creepypasta style scare go with Chambers. He was the first and the best. The feeling in your spine when you put down that book isn't "somebody has cheated me" but one of crossing a threshold. Another book prized by the Indie set that I feels delivers a bit more is The Raw Shark Texts.