THE ARCHITECTURE OF DREAD Exploring the Anatomy of the Haunted House At Guy's Hospital Chapel with Caitlin Blackwell Baines  on Saturday 6th December 2025 at 1:30 pm What exactly makes a house feel haunted? Is it the chill that runs down your spine in a deserted hallway? A dark shape that lingers in the air like dust? Or is it something more tangible, something built into the very stones, shadows and silhouettes? Art historian and author Caitlin Blackwell Baines invites us on a spine-chilling illustrated journey through some of the world’s most infamous haunted houses from the windswept battlements of Medieval Scotland to the gaslit streets of Enlightenment-era London, from the creeping dread of Victorian suburbs to the oppressive humidity of pre-Civil War Louisiana. As an expert in Gothic art and architecture, Blackwell Caitlin is uniquely qualified to dissect the "eternally eerie." She will explore that specific, chilling set of ingredients that captures our collective imagination and defines what we all instinctively recognize as the architecture of dread. Tickets £12.50 including a Gothic Punch and 20% donation to the King's Chaplaincy Trust to support medical students. Please click here to purchase. Caitlin Blackwell Baines Caitlin Blackwell Baines (PhD, University of York) is an art historian and author specializing in Georgian and Gothic architecture. She has lived and breathed this subject, working as the former curator for Mount Stuart, a late Victorian Gothic Revival palace on the Western coast of Scotland. When she isn’t visiting unsettling houses, she hosts the popular history podcast, Haunted Homes. Copies of her book, How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession, will be available for purchase and signing at the event https://www.caitlinblackwellbaines.com/