Evening all~

Happiest of Wednesday to all! I hope everyone is having a great week, with the exception of being out of breath/my throat burning I am fine. Welcome to a new Waiting on Wednesday!

Today’s book is Sick Houses by Leila Taylor! All about haunted houses, the history, the architecture, how the horror genre came to be, and more. It sounds like the perfect book for a girl who loves a haunted house story so I am very much excited about this. I love that this one seems to not just go for your popular haunted houses but also looks at it from a general view along with plenty of information. It sounds so interesting and I am hyped!

The book got released yesterday, I am just not sure if I want to get a Kindle edition of it or wait for the paperback to get a more decent in prize. Either way, I cannot wait!

Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.

The history of horror begins with a house. From Otranto to Amityville, the haunted house story endures because it perverts what is equally the most universal and the most personal of the home. Our home is an extension of our self, a manifestation of our identity, and a repository of our memories. It is a micro-universe of our own creation that we control. It is also where we are the most vulnerable because we are supposed to be the most safe.

Whether it is a decrepit Victorian mansion, a modernist luxury high-rise, a little cottage in the woods, or a starter house in the suburbs, Sick Houses explores how the horror genre in film, television, and literature uses architecture and the ideology of the home against us. It looks at the mythology of the American Dream and how the lure of homeownership becomes a trap. It celebrates the witch house, the power of the crone, and the fear of aging women who live alone. It explores how concrete utopias became ready-made mise en scene for urban terror.

From the betrayal of sentient shape-shifting houses to shadow-self dollhouse doppelgangers, Sick Houses examines how the horror genre subverts and corrupts that which is the most sacrosanct.