It Came From the Closet

Queer Reflections on Horror

An exciting anthology of new, queer readings of horror films from Jaws to Jennifer’s Body.

“Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival … I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.”

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.

Edited by Joe Vallese, and with contributions by writers including Kirsty Logan and Carmen Maria Machado, the essays in It Came from the Closet bring the particulars of the writers’ own experiences, whether in relation to gender, sexuality, or both, to their unique interpretations of horror films from Jaws to Jennifer’s Body.

Exploring a multitude of queer experiences from first kisses and coming out to transition and parenthood, this is a varied and accessible collection that leans into the fun of horror while taking its cultural impact and reciprocal relationship to the LGBTQ+ community seriously.

Contributor: Sachiko Ragosta (Contributions by), Richard Scott Larson (Contributions by), Zefyr Lisowski (Contributions by), Steffan Triplett (Contributions by), Jen Corrigan (Contributions by), Ryan Dzelzkalns (Contributions by), Viet Dinh (Contributions by), Sarah Fonesca (Contributions by), Jonathan Robbins Leon (Contributions by), Bishakh Som (Contributions by), Tosha R. Taylor (Contributions by), Carmen Maria Machado (Contributions by), Addie Tsai (Contributions by), Joe Vallese (Edited by), S. Trimble (Contributions by), Samuel Autman (Contributions by), Spencer Williams (Contributions by), Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Contributions by), Will Stockton (Contributions by), Laura Maw (Contributions by), Sumiko Saulson (Contributions by), Kirsty Logan (Foreword by), Carrow Narby (Contributions by), Prince Shakur (Contributions by), Grant Sutton (Contributions by), Bruce Owens Grimm (Contributions by), Tucker Lieberman (Contributions by)

Pages: 336

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