{"product_id":"sick-houses-isbn-9781915672636","title":"Sick Houses","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorror begins at home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSick Houses\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSick Houses\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.\"I've bought over a dozen copies of Leila Taylor's \u003ci\u003eDarkly\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSick Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Colin Dickey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Shelagh Rowan-Legg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A thoughtful, personal, incisive and well-considered premise that will appeal to horror enthusiasts and storytellers alike, \u003ci\u003eSick Houses\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to examine the universally relatable concept of home and how horror can intimately overturn the places in which we most seek and hope for safety.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Leanna Renee Hieber,\u003c\/b\u003e award-winning co-author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Haunted History of Invisible Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica’s Most Gothic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Taylor’s mix of knowledge and humor is a treat. Anyone curious about houses with a history, and historically creepy houses, should check this one out.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sick Houses\u003c\/i\u003e not only opened my eyes but renewed my fervor for reading and writing horror, to seeing beyond the mere trope and finding the bloody sinews, choices, and history beneath.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Book Riot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeila Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDarkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eLapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBitter Root Vol. 3: Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299838087397,"sku":"NP9781915672636","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781915672636.jpg?v=1767736599","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sick-houses-isbn-9781915672636","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}