It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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Kirsty Logan ’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest. A phenomenal collection of essays from various queer lovers of horror and their connections, interpretations, and understandings of their favorite horror films. Kirsty Logan’s latest book is Now She is Witch (Harvill Secker, 2023), a queer medieval witch revenge quest. An impressively diverse array of queer voices contributes their opinions on how and why particular horror movies made a personal and indelible impression on them.

She has received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center Adjunct Incubator Grant.Sometimes media analysis, especially if I haven't seen or read the media, is so incredibly dull to me and just not my thing. It Came From the Closet is at times beautiful, at times funny, at times gorgeously weird and baroque, and always as off-kilter brilliant as the genre, and queerness, itself. If you have a hard time understanding what people mean when they say, "horror is queer," then read this book, and you'll have your answer. It felt extremely intrusive to be given details about an adoptive child that apparently the child himself hasn't been made privy to and therefore cannot possibly have given consent for it to be shared with the world at large. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

They are well written and the storytelling aspect of it makes this sort of analysis so much more accessible and entertaining to read. oftentimes when i review anthologies, i say there were ups and downs, but this book ranges from B++ to A+ all the way through. Finally: a smart and serious yet playful book that interrogates the complex queerness of horror and the films that make a horror of queerness. As someone always seeking “the otherness” in storytelling because of my identity, these essays spoke to me on many levels.The movie inclusion was more like a gimmick so this wouldn't be 'just another nonfiction queer memoir essay collection' rather than an an actual component when it came to writing the essays, at least the ones I read. The second reason: Some of the most interesting details were left as B-plots or insufficiently explored--teases that were frustratingly far more fascinating than what the author had to say about this or that film. He is currently clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and previously served as site director and faculty for the Bard Prison Initiative. Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.