Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host, Bridget Markquhart, with a brand new episode for you today. My guest today is Leila Taylor. Lila Taylor is a Brooklyn-based writer, speaker, and designer whose work focuses on the intersection of history, 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 Laugham'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 Erie and the esoteric for the Miscatonic Institute of

Horror Studies, Morbid Anatomy, the International Gothic Association, the Collective for Radical

Death Studies, and the Occult Humanities Conference. She received her MFA from Yale University

and a master's in liberal studies from the new school of social research. By day, she's a creative director

for Brooklyn's public library. Lila, thank you so much for doing the show today. Thank you for

having me. I'm so excited. Me too. So first of all, I just want to say, and I hope this doesn't

embarrass you or anything like that, but I am so impressed by your credentials.

Oh, Thank you.

Like double master's degree and Yale, I'm like, oh, that's amazing.

Thanks.

I like when I just, education in all, in all different things.

Like I do classes in paranormal and language classes and stuff like that. And I just think education is so important. So I'm always impressed when people have like, like, good academics and like all these like diplomas and degrees and certificates. I'm like, I keep it all up. I'm like, tell me more. Would you get it?

Well, I had my, I had my original master's in fine art or in graphic design. And then about

10 years later, I was like, I want to do liberal studies. I want to write. And I was like,

I'm going to go back to school. So the new school was only 10 years ago. Yeah. Well, see, that's great too. To go back to school,

I feel like it's so inspiring. Like, it's never too late. I feel like people sometimes think,

oh, I can't go back to school. It's too late. It's not too late. No, not at all. Not at all.

And even for just continuing education things or like a new a new interest or hobby like paranormal or

whatever like it's it's not too late to take classes or to learn more about it or not at all

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