Joe Vallese is editor of It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror and co-editor of the anthology What’s Your Exit? It felt extremely intrusive to be given details about an adoptive child that apparently the child himself hasn't been made privy to and therefore cannot possibly have given consent for it to be shared with the world at large. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Kirsty Logan ’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest.

Themes in the ones I mentioned include transness and disability; bisexuality and "experimentation"; surrogacy and pregancy; puberty and gender/sexual expectations; historical sapphic relationships; Cuban masculinity and daughters; Blackness and whiteness in Utah; beauty standards, healing, and queer/trans identity; and self-harm and transness. They are well written and the storytelling aspect of it makes this sort of analysis so much more accessible and entertaining to read. I couldn’t relate to the abuse story she was telling, but it was something deeper than that, I felt anxious, and so agitated that I had to stop reading it a few times. Książka ma podtytuł „QUEER Reflections on Horror”, ale równie dobrze mogłaby nazywać się „Gay and Occassionally Trans Reflections on Horror.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Readers that do not know any or very few of the movies being discussed will likely struggle, because this is an unabashed passion project that never feels the need to explain itself. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

I hadn't really thought much about how my queer and transness related to these sorts of media until reading this text. It was a shame for two reasons, the first being the missed opportunity to create a really spectacular collection of essays on queerness and horror. Other standouts included: Carmen Maria Machado’s convincing reclamation of Jennifer’s Body for queer audiences; an essay on The Blob that morphed into a striking meditation on gendered bodies; an exploration of the remake of Candyman that probed connections between being gay, Blackness and San Francisco’s racist housing policies; a look at the unexpectedly queer erotics underpinning Spielberg’s Jaws; a lovingly nostalgic examination of the lesbian subtext of Hitchcock’s The Birds; slasher movies, the Aids crisis and the demonization of gay men; and an unusual take on Eyes without a Face and being trans.There are spoilers for the movies but you don’t need to have seen all of them to gain something from the essays. I had previously watched Sleepaway Camp, Jennifer's Body, Hereditary, The Ring, The Birds, Candyman, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Us, The Blair Witch Project, Halloween, and Get Out; therefore, those have been long-time favorites of mine already. A diverse collection of thoughtful and incisive essays that show that queerness and horror are natural (or occasionally, supernatural) bedfellows.