If you want to see my current show, and can't make it to New York, you can get a look here:
17.10.2025 15:00 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@leilataylor.bsky.social
creative director, library booster, writer, purveyor of gloomth, future crone.
If you want to see my current show, and can't make it to New York, you can get a look here:
17.10.2025 15:00 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The cover of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, by Leila Taylor. It's red and depicts a black Victorian-style house both upright and reversed.
Anyway, I loved what this book had to say about Gray Gardens -- among other things. Highly recommend @leilataylor.bsky.social's latest.
17.10.2025 23:14 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Come get a tiny bit weird! With a mention to @leilataylor.bsky.social 's awesome book Sick Houses!
open.substack.com/pub/bullshit...
Jane Goodall died on Wednesday at 91 after a life spent revolutionizing the study of primates and then bringing her global fame to the cause of conservation.
Here are snapshots from her life and career.
Grey cat with yellow eyes poking her head out of a red shopping bag.
Also I got a cat! Introducing Miss Purrleen Mouse aka Mousie. She's really into this bag from Marshall'shjgewo(
Ko9p0... that was her walking across my laptop. As I was saying she really loves this bag.
Book covers: "In Open Contempt" by Irvin Weathersby Jr., "Sick Houses" by Leila Taylor, and "Defiant Acts" by James Stewart III. Rally Reading Series. Pete's Candy Store, Oct.2nd, 7pm
So excited to be reading with some excellent company at @rallyreading.bsky.social⬠This Thursday at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.
29.09.2025 00:07 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Dears! We have an amazing lineup of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION tour stops starting next week! We begin @astoriabookshop.bsky.social on release day, 9/30 with the inimitable @leilataylor.bsky.social! RSVP here, NYC! π€
astoriabookshop.com/events/32552...
9/30! Launch Day! Join us at the lovely @astoriabookshop.bsky.social where we'll be in conversation with one of our favorite authors, @leilataylor.bsky.social, so you can get AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC signed at the same time as Leila's latest, SICK HOUSES, which makes an amazing pairing:
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A tragedy has occurred today.
Please, let us mourn one of our best, taken from us too soon.
Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860
09.09.2025 11:47 β π 60 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1I never thought Iβd see his name and Drexcyia in the same sentence but apparently even imagining a world where the slave trade never happened is un-American.
08.09.2025 03:23 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs opening day at Twisted Spine, NYCβs first horror bookstore, and the line is all the way down the block! Faith in humanity restored. π€ππ¦
06.09.2025 16:38 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@leilataylor.bsky.social Sick Houses is so freaking insightful, witty, cutting, deeply researched and I cannot put it down. I love this book!
10.08.2025 20:48 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Starting Wednesday season 2 reminded me (bc I do think an aesthetically amazing show that didnβt have bad politics is possible, but probably not with Tim Burton) of @leilataylor.bsky.socialβs amazing book, βDarkly: Black History and Americaβs Gothic Soul.β www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609185...
09.08.2025 14:07 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0recently announced: THE FILMS OF LARRY FESSENDEN VOLUME 1, from @vinsyn.bsky.social , featuring some incredible exras, including an audio comentary on HABIT with me and the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social . Now available to preorder! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
11.08.2025 16:25 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My latest @bookriot.bsky.social post is live, in which I talk about @leilataylor.bsky.social's magnificent book Sick Houses: Haunted Homes & The Architecture of Dread.
Add this book to your TBR asap!
bookriot.com/sick-houses-...
A deal announcement for OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm
If youβve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiersβand the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to itβthen be on the lookout for Deena Helmβs debut!
Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! π΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈπ΅πΈ
Check out this fantastic interview with @nkjemisin.bsky.social on the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social podcast Borrowed & Returned!
17.07.2025 13:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
βIt is the Fourth of July and it is summer in America, goddammit.
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.β
- @eccantwell.bsky.social
Published today in the UK!
(a couple of months later here in the US)
. . .
Notable perhaps - given the date today, and the headlines - that it includes a chapter discussing how we are all being ghosted by our so-called elected representatives and civic leaders.
From the authors of A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN comes AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes. The book cover features a teal background with a central haunted house (typical Gothic, mansard roof, eerily lit interior, surrounded by encroaching mist and overgrowing forest.) The text is in white script and the subtitle in a rich goldenrod yellow that mirrors the filigree detailing and quatrefoil corner pieces of gothic detailing around the edges.
AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION launches 9/30 via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social!
9/30 night, @andreajanes.bsky.social & yours truly talk with the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social at @astoriabookshop.bsky.social!
See you there, NYC!
Let's sign spooky books together! π€
Old cartoons of black people being used as alligator bait "Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about 'illegal immigration.'"
Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT
02.07.2025 05:28 β π 3357 π 1402 π¬ 106 π 242Thereβs a reason I say I was technically born in Ohio but Iβm not βfromβ there.
30.06.2025 15:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until itβs done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Andry JosΓ© HernΓ‘ndez Romero & a makeup client.
Andry JosΓ© HernΓ‘ndez Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 100 days.
As vigil, Iβm posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
Iβm glad I voted early! Please, please, please come through NYC.
23.06.2025 19:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FYI: FANGORIA is teaming up with Film at Lincoln Center to give away a copy of US: THE ANNOTATED SCREENPLAY and a pair of tickets to their screening of the film.
20.06.2025 20:39 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The federal suicide-prevention hotline is no longer providing specialized support for LGBTQ callers
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...