Sick Houses
Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
Watkins Media · Print & ebook · February 11, 2025
Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp look at how houses meant to shelter us become vessels for horror.
- Themes
- Haunted homes, Domestic spaces as sources of fear, Architecture as a vessel for terror
- Genres
- Horror Lit Crit, Residential Architecture, Horror Films
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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.
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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.
Home, Made Uncanny
A sharp look at how houses meant to shelter us become vessels for horror.
Come here for
- The uneasy architecture of haunted homes
- Horror across film, television, and literature
Expect
- A layered take on domestic spaces turned unsettling
- Gothic dread with the familiar made strange
Where it sits
| Horror Lit Crit | 76% |
|---|---|
| Horror Films | 46% |
| Residential Architecture | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Architecture (1945-)
- The Occult
- Pop Culture Studies
- Authors
- Leila Taylor
- Publisher
- Watkins Media
- Published
- February 11, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Haunted homes · Domestic spaces as sources of fear · Architecture as a vessel for terror
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Architecture (1945-)