It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi…
Want to Read $ 9.34"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic beverages. In this way, presentation, when considered for the purpose of legibility feels futile... As long as I am subjected to this unconsented reading of my body, I will desire nothing more than facelessness"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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1. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more
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- nonfiction
- film
- horror
2. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
3. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
4. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
5. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
6. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
7. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
8. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
9. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.34Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
- audiobook
- film
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- horror
- adult
- queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
10. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
11. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- horror
12. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
By: Eric LaRocca
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- horror
- adult
- queer
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
13. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- film
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
14. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
15. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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- horror
- adult
- lgbt
- queer
16. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
By: Krista Burton
3.86
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
17. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more
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- film
- nonfiction
- essays
- horror
- adult
- audiobook
18. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- horror
- adult
- queer
19. We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures
By: Rob Costello
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An empowering cross-genre YA anthology that explores what it means to be a monster, exclusively hig… read more
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- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- horror
- queer
20. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- horror
