Sick Houses : Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread

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Author: Taylor, Leila ArchitecturePublished on 11 February 2025 by Watkins Media Limited (Repeater Books) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 240 pages197 x 130 x 21 | 218g Horror be gins at homeFrom 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. Show more