Sunday, October 19
2–3pm Eastern Time
FREE: Participants must RSVP through this page.
Homeownership has been a thematic device in horror from The Castle of Otranto to Scooby-Doo. With the promise of stability, autonomy, and comfort the house is not merely a financial asset but a representation of our identity and our place in society. But what happens when malevolent forces shatter that illusion of safety? What if the dead refuse to give up the deed? When does the private home become a haunted house? Looking at films like The Amityville Horror, The Others, and His House, this talk will examine the role homeownership plays in horror both as aspirational bait and financial trap.
Leila Taylor (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history, horror and the gothic in contemporary art, media, and culture. Author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her work has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, and the graphic novel Bitter Root. She’s given talks on the eerie and the esoteric for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Morbid Anatomy, The International Gothic Association, The Collective for Radical Death Studies, and The Occult Humanities Conference. By day, she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library.
This event is scheduled to be hosted on Zoom. Participants will receive the event link via email on the morning of the event day. Should you encounter any issues accessing the link, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@arcane17.co for assistance. Additionally, we are pleased to inform our Members that a recording of this event will be available on our Patreon page.
Sunday, October 19
2–3pm Eastern Time
FREE: Participants must RSVP through this page.
Homeownership has been a thematic device in horror from The Castle of Otranto to Scooby-Doo. With the promise of stability, autonomy, and comfort the house is not merely a financial asset but a representation of our identity and our place in society. But what happens when malevolent forces shatter that illusion of safety? What if the dead refuse to give up the deed? When does the private home become a haunted house? Looking at films like The Amityville Horror, The Others, and His House, this talk will examine the role homeownership plays in horror both as aspirational bait and financial trap.
Leila Taylor (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history, horror and the gothic in contemporary art, media, and culture. Author of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread and Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul, her work has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, and the graphic novel Bitter Root. She’s given talks on the eerie and the esoteric for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, Morbid Anatomy, The International Gothic Association, The Collective for Radical Death Studies, and The Occult Humanities Conference. By day, she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library.
This event is scheduled to be hosted on Zoom. Participants will receive the event link via email on the morning of the event day. Should you encounter any issues accessing the link, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@arcane17.co for assistance. Additionally, we are pleased to inform our Members that a recording of this event will be available on our Patreon page.
