SIGNED Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread by Leila Taylor
This is a pre-order listing! Books will be shipped from Brooklyn, NY, on publication day: February 11 , 2025
Explore the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home, with Brooklyn writer Leila Taylor.
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.
Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She’s given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. Her previous book, Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul is also available for purchase, signed by the author, in the Morbid Anatomy Library and Shop.
This is a pre-order listing! Books will be shipped from Brooklyn, NY, on publication day: February 11 , 2025
Explore the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home, with Brooklyn writer Leila Taylor.
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.
Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She’s given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. Her previous book, Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul is also available for purchase, signed by the author, in the Morbid Anatomy Library and Shop.
This is a pre-order listing! Books will be shipped from Brooklyn, NY, on publication day: February 11 , 2025
Explore the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home, with Brooklyn writer Leila Taylor.
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.
Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She’s given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. Her previous book, Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul is also available for purchase, signed by the author, in the Morbid Anatomy Library and Shop.