Reviews - It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Through this anthology of essays, various queer and trans writers talk about their complex feelings towards horror movies and how it shaped them but also pushed narratives that were sometimes negative. I’m not a horror movie fan but it was interesting to see how these writers identify with or explored movies like Jennifer’s Body, Get Out, or The Exorcist.

cwednesday95's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

Not every reflection worked for me. A couple in particular grated against my sense of permission-- a not uncommon snag in reading autobiographical work, but the horror movie parallels were all well woven.

nanc_282's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective medium-paced

callunavulgaris's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

As a disclaimer, the content warnings I listed are not of incidents done by the authors but to the authors.

This one is very good. As with all anthologies, some chapters are better than others. The audiobook has so many narrators and I’d be really interested to know how those narrators were chosen/assigned to each chapter. Definitely recommend. Some really interesting arguments to be made about the alignment of horror with queerness.

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