Sick Houses
Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
by Leila Taylor
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Pub Date 11 Feb 2025 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
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 drawn to haunted and haunting places, Sick Houses is a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.
Advance Praise
"I've bought over a dozen copies of Leila Taylor's Darkly for friends and acquaintances since it first came out, and it remains to me one of the best and most essential books of the last ten years. Her latest, Sick Houses, is just as deft, insightful, and timely--and it's also destined to be a modern classic. Anyone who wants to know more about what makes a house haunted, and why we're drawn to such places in film and literature, should absolutely start here." - Colin Dickey
The homes of the normal, the eccentric, the magical, the violent, and the insane: Sick Houses reaches far beyond and far deeper into the lore and lure of the domestic space than any book before it. Leila Taylor has crafted a fascinating and comprehensive study into homes of all shapes and sizes, ages, and uses, homes from recent history and from popular culture. Examining issues of class, race, and gender, she asks us to reconsider why we consider a space a home, and why it becomes a place of haunting. - Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781915672636 |
| PRICE | US$16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
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Featured Reviews
Emily D, Reviewer
I really enjoyed this! Taylor takes the reader on an exploration of what makes a house a home, and the more sinister steps that can turn a home back onto a house. She references famous haunted houses, the homes of serial killers and what society has come to view as a “haunted house”. There are detailed descriptions of ghosts, murders, unfortunate accidents and everything that could lead to a structure becoming sinister all by itself. I particularly enjoyed the social commentary on these so called haunted houses, and how they often reflect societal norms at the time. There were so many incredible conversations and observations in this book and clearly so much time and research went into it. A really fantastic book.
