Since the teaser trailer for Backrooms is out I thought I'd share a piece I wrote a while ago. leila-taylor.ghost.io/youve-been-h...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

Just making sure @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social see this

A stunning response (i.e., more than just a review) of GHOSTING, by Tyran Grillo. If you don't have the time or inclination to read the book, this serves as an excellent bluffer's guide to something we all deal with, at some point.

Just skipping down Bourbon St. in NOLA crying and wanting to shout at total strangers “He won!” ❤️❤️❤️ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Got a Lift after visiting Anne Rice’s final resting place. Turns out my driver was also a location scout for The Mayfair Witches. I love New Orleans.

Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune & Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre The 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far… buff.ly/C4B49ZM

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 🏠 Why do some buildings just feel somehow wrong? 🎃 Why are some houses just plain spooky? 👻 What do horror movies say about our anxieties at home? 🏛️ Is Birmingham haunted by the ghost of Telly Savalas? All of these questions and more, with our guest @leilataylor.bsky.social.

We’re excited about our next episode with the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social. There is also some carving to be done…

If you want to see my current show, and can't make it to New York, you can get a look here:

Anyway, I loved what this book had to say about Gray Gardens -- among other things. Highly recommend @leilataylor.bsky.social's latest.

Come 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.

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.

So excited to be reading with some excellent company at @rallyreading.bsky.social‬ This Thursday at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.

Dears! 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! 🖤 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: 🖤

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

I never thought I’d see his name and Drexcyia in the same sentence but apparently even imagining a world where the slave trade never happened is un-American.

It’s opening day at Twisted Spine, NYC’s first horror bookstore, and the line is all the way down the block! Faith in humanity restored. 🖤📚🦇

@leilataylor.bsky.social Sick Houses is so freaking insightful, witty, cutting, deeply researched and I cannot put it down. I love this book!

Starting Wednesday season 2 reminded me (bc I do think an aesthetically amazing show that didn’t have bad politics is possible, but probably not with Tim Burton) of @leilataylor.bsky.social’s amazing book, “Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609185...

recently 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/...

My 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-...

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut! Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Check out this fantastic interview with @nkjemisin.bsky.social on the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social podcast Borrowed & Returned!

"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...

“It 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.” - @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.

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! 🖤

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT

There’s a reason I say I was technically born in Ohio but I’m not “from” there.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s 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 José Hernández 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, I’m 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

I’m glad I voted early! Please, please, please come through NYC.

FYI: 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.

The federal suicide-prevention hotline is no longer providing specialized support for LGBTQ callers www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

Never not a weird time to promote projects these days but I am proud of this brand new Modernist NYC Map I authored for Blue Crow Media! Has over 50 sites for you to wander actoss the five boroughs bluecrowmedia.com/products/mod...

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Went and I checked this, and Edwin's correct: On the left is text from the reconciliation bill "PROHIBITING FEDERAL MEDICAID AND CHIP FUNDING FOR GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES FOR MINORS" On the right is from the Manager's amendment that strikes the word "FOR MINORS."

Factually and historically accurate. ✌️🦇🖤🦇😁

one hour of nottoway plantation fire ASMR for your listening pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAw...

Saw #Sinners again and loved it even more the second time. Also, if you are like me and can't get enough of Wunmi Mosaku go watch His House. youtu.be/DYY0QJhlXjc?...

I think it's important to remember that The Met Gala is about funding art conservation. Fashion is art & history and what the Met does is make sure a lot of very delicate pieces that tell us how we lived & expressed ourselves through history. The Gala funds the Costume Institute specifically.

I got the chance to write about cinematic Black vamps for Harper's Bazaar in honor of @sinnersmovie.bsky.social! You can read it here: www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...

The more I think about #Sinners the more I love about it and I’ve been thinking about it a lot.