Architecture of the Anthropocene, Pt. 2: Haunted Houses, Living Buildings, and Other Horror Stories

2014-11-25T10:09:00-05:00

In horror fiction, a house is usually haunted in one of two ways: either a building is inhabited by the ghosts of dead humans, or the structure itself is animated by a strange, non-human life. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” an influential achievement of the genre, falls into the latter camp; the horror of the House of Usher can never be properly pinned down because it pervades the setting itself. But what’s so scary about a living building?

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Architecture of the Anthropocene, Pt. 2: Haunted Houses, Living Buildings, and Other Horror Stories