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Sick Houses

Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread

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Sick Houses

By: Leila Taylor
Narrated by: Ren
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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.

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.

©2025 Leila Taylor (P)2025 Repeater Books Architecture Social Sciences Scary Haunted
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Really interesting! As a big fan of the haunted house in all its forms, I was really excited to listen to this book. It didn’t disappoint. I enjoyed the performance also, narration was good!

Fascinating

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A book about buildings really should have had a narrator that could pronounce ‘architecture’. “Architexture”? This should have been noticed and corrected. The voice is monotonous and the pronunciation of far too many words is incorrect. It’s very jarring. This is a disservice to a really interesting book that covers a subject matter that is of great fascination to me. I should have read a hard copy.

Fascinating book - terrible narration

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