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A review by taelights
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
While I did like some of the essays in this book and found some of the topics in it fascinating, this wasn't what I expected. I pictured more of a focus on horror through a queer eye and why the authors believe certain horror movies portray queer experiences. While some of the essays focused on this I found a lot of the essays were mainly focused on the writer's personal lives with some vague connections back to the horror movies. I did enjoy this a bit but wouldn't really recommend it because of some weak essays and a lot of them being more just memoirs than queer looks at horror.
My favorite essays (in order of book) were:
- The Girl, the Well, the Ring
- Imprint
- The Wolf Man's Daughter
- Loving Annie Hayworth
- Blood, Actually
- Sight Unseen
- Bad Hombre
- Black Body Snatchers
- Long Nights in the Dark
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
Minor: Adult/minor relationship