Just take Carmen Maria Machado’s recent edition of Carmilla from Lanternfish Press, full of marginalia that made the original queer subtext explicit. And it’s no wonder we can - and do - reclaim these stories as our own. With villains often queer-coded historically and LGBTQ people themselves demonized, it’s no wonder we can relate. There’s a reason queer people so often find a sense of connection in horror. It’s a genre I’m seeing more and more books published in and I couldn’t be happier, even when reading about killer monsters, haunted houses, and existential dread.
And I’m always especially on the look out for the new queer horror coming out every year. It’s not the only time I read horror by any means, but it is when my TBR tends to become most horror-centric. I tend to crave dark and spooky reads the most around fall as the weather starts to cool and the Halloween decorations come out.
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