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Sick houses : haunted homes & the architecture of dread / Leila Taylor.
Fine Arts Library NA7100 .T39 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Leila, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Miscellanea.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--United States.
- Dwellings--Miscellanea.
- Dwellings.
- Dwellings--Psychological aspects.
- Haunted houses.
- Haunted house films.
- Horror films.
- Horror tales.
- haunted houses.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Repeater, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the unhappy house
- American houses
- Brutal houses
- Witch houses
- Mad houses
- Little houses
- Forever houses
- My house
- Image credits
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210).
- ISBN:
- 1915672635
- 9781915672636
- 9781915672643
- 1915672643
- OCLC:
- 1434095934
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