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{{Short description|2000 novella by Mark Z. Danielewski}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox book 
  | name           =  The Whalestoe Letters
  | title_orig     =  
  | translator     =  
  | image          =  The Whalestoe Letters.jpg
| caption  = Cover to the first edition
  | author         =  [[Mark Z. Danielewski]]
  | cover_artist   =  
  | country        =  United States
  | language       =  English (United States)
  | series         =  
  | genre          =  [[Epistolary novel|Epistolary]] [[Novella]]
  | publisher      =  [[Pantheon Books]]
  | release_date   =  10 October 2000
  | media_type     =  Print (paperback)
  | pages          =  86 p. (paperback edition)
  | isbn = 0-375-71441-3
| isbn_note = (paperback edition)
  | dewey= 813/.54 21
| congress= PS3554.A5596 W48 2000
| oclc= 44811700
| preceded_by    =  [[House of Leaves]]
  | followed_by    =  [[The Fifty Year Sword]]
}}

'''''The Whalestoe Letters''''' (2000), by the American fiction author [[Mark Z. Danielewski]], is an [[Epistolary novel|epistolary]] [[novella]] which more fully develops the literary correspondence between Pelafina H. Lièvre and her son Johnny from 1982–1989, characters first introduced in Danielewski's prior work ''[[House of Leaves]]''.

The letters are included in the second edition of ''House of Leaves'', in Appendix II, under the name ''E – The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute Letters'', although the companion piece includes eleven additional letters not found in ''House of Leaves''.

==Plot introduction== 
Pelafina writes these letters to Johnny from ''The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute'', a mental institution where she has been residing for a number of years. While a number of these letters appear in ''House of Leaves'', ''The Whalestoe Letters'' introduces a number of new letters which serve to more fully develop Pelafina's character as well as her relationship with Johnny.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/36528/the-whalestoe-letters-by-mark-z-danielewski/9780375714412 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Penguin Random House Canada |language=English}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375714412 Pantheon Books catalog page]
* [http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-0375714413-0 Powells Books review]

{{Mark Z. Danielewski}}

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[[Category:2000 American novels]]
[[Category:American novellas]]
[[Category:Novels by Mark Z. Danielewski]]
[[Category:Postmodern novels]]
[[Category:Epistolary novels]]
[[Category:Pantheon Books books]]


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