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Queer Horror
Thirteen for Halloween: Horror Monsters and the Gorgon’s Isle
Why do horror monsters outlast the heroes sent to slay them? George Daniel Lea introduces his Thirteen for Halloween series with a personal look back at Ladybird myths, Knightmare, Jim Henson and Stephen King. He also explores why queer and neurodivergent readers so often side with the monsters in horror fiction.
I Was A Teenage Bisexual: Polis Loizou’s Monster Mash Hits the Road
Polis Loizou is back on the road with I Was A Teenage Bisexual, a one-person horror show that turns the old myths about bisexual people into a creature feature. Part vintage horror satire and part teen flick, this piece of queer horror theatre heads to Nottingham, Sale and Wolverhampton after a week in London.
There Used to Be People Here by Kennedy Cole Review: Something Landed in Wenton
My There Used to Be People Here review looks at Kennedy Cole’s debut, a sci-fi horror novel set in 1978 Mississippi. A Black detective and his temporary partner chase a strange death towards a crash that was not a plane. It is Southern noir horror with real heart, and one of the best debuts of the year.
Lost Boys by Dean Cade: Queer Horror Meets the Candy Man Murders
Dean Cade’s Lost Boys, book two of the Summer 1973 trilogy from Slashic Horror Press, rebuilds the Houston Mass Murders from the inside out, following a closeted gas-station teenager through the summer the Candy Man came for the Heights. Our five-star review of a queer horror and true-crime hybrid that remembers the boys history reduced to a body count.
You See It Too by AJ Malachite: A Queer Gamebook Horror Where No One Walks Out Whole
A.J. Malachite’s debut You See It Too turns the choose-your-own-adventure format into a body-horror trap, sending three queer students into a bayou preserve after a will-o’-the-wisp that turns out to have larvae. It is folk horror, eco-horror and Southern Gothic at once, with old money farming the swamp for generations. Four stars for a gamebook that refuses to let you save everyone.
