About

Leila Taylor is a writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary 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 for Morbid Anatomy, the Occult Humanities Conference, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, The House of Know, and Green-Wood Cemetery. She lives in Brooklyn where she is Creative Director for Brooklyn Public Library.