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Read this novel made of GIFs
A sign of the times. The future of storytelling. An attempt at something a little different. None of the above. Whatever the reasoning, Dennis Cooper has decided to craft a novel entirely in GIFs, each one show-and-telling a little bit more of the (sometimes fragmented) story. You can read it yourself either online or by download to PCs or tablet. "Zac's Haunted House" is made up of a whole load of GIFs that you scroll through to form the narrative of each chapter. Cooper, whose previous work spans both fiction and art, has taken the animations from a wide range of mediums: sometimes they're cribbed from Samurai Jack, other times it's older movie vignettes from long before the birth of the web. While we'd say it's more of a short story than a novel, how long it'll take you to finish will largely depend on your connection speed -- no reading required.
