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Sick Houses - by Leila Taylor (Paperback)

Name: Sick Houses - by Leila Taylor (Paperback)
Brand: Repeater
SKU: 94161536
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Highlights

Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.
About the Author: 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.
240 Pages
Social Science, Popular Culture

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Book Synopsis

Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.

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.

About the Author

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.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)

Weight: .45 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 240

Genre: Social Science

Sub-Genre: Popular Culture

Publisher: Repeater

Format: Paperback

Author: Leila Taylor

Language: English

Street Date: February 11, 2025

TCIN: 94161536

UPC: 9781915672636

Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-9309

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.9 inches length x 5.1 inches width x 7.7 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.45 pounds

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