It Came From the Closet

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<p><em>¿Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ¿ I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.¿</em></p><p>The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It¿s complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires and the monstrous can have striking resonance for those who¿ve been marginalised. But the genre¿s murky history of an alarmingly heterosexual male gaze, queer-coded villains and sometimes blatant homophobia, is impossible to overlook. There is tension here, and there are as many queer readings of horror films as there are queer people.</p><p>Edited by Joe Vallese, and with contributions by writers including Kirsty Logan and Carmen Maria Machado, the essays in <em>It Came from the Closet </em>bring the particulars of the writers¿ own experiences, whether in relation to gender, sexuality, or both, to their unique interpretations of horror films from <em>Jaws</em> to <em>Jennifer¿s Body.</em></p><p>Exploring a multitude of qu