The Whalestoe Letters

Cover to the first edition
Author	Mark Z. Danielewski
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Epistolary Novella
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Publication date	10 October 2000
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	86 p. (paperback edition)
ISBN	0-375-71441-3 (paperback edition)
OCLC	44811700
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3554.A5596 W48 2000
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 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.^[1]