proximoception

In the novel I'm not writing, where the story lines do not intersect as such but the narratives do (I can see that to explain what I mean, I'm going to have to just do it, which is intimidating), each story centers on a house. The houses are physically utterly distinct, no ghosts or echoes from one story to another, and yet the ways the characters inhabit them make them similar to the reader.

(That's surely an invisible house: one in the mind of the reader of an unwritten work.)