
Sick Houses
Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
$38.96
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2025
Summary
Horror begins at home.
From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber’s cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them.
Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie spaces to explore how different types of architecture become vessels for terror and how these spaces, meant to shelter us, instead become the source of our deepest fears. Using film, television, and literature to explain why we are …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915672636 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1915672635 |
| Author: | Leila Taylor |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm |
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About The Author
Leila Taylor
Leila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of Darkly- Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her essays have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic, and Bitter Root Vol. 3- Legacy.
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