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Lily and Vivian kiss on the show Wreck

Slasher-Comedy Cruise Ship Series “Wreck” Has a Wicked Twist and a Standout Queer Friendship

a still from Knock at the Cabin: two white men hold onto a young east Asian girl in the door of a cabin, looking afraid.

“Knock at the Cabin” Understands the Limits of Queer Assimilation

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt features a woman's face merged with a haunted house on the cover

Alison Rumfitt’s “Tell Me I’m Worthless” Is Fearlessly Honest About Modern Trans Life

Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 10 Cloverfield Lane wears a tank and is surrounded by skeleton hands holding out flowers

How it Ends

Anne in Knife+Heart wears a black vinyl trenchcoat

“Knife + Heart” and the Thin Line Between Desire and Destruction

Two men from the movie Ravenous lay on the ground, bloodied. One is eating the other. Red demons creep in from the edges.

The Horrors of “Ravenous” Are Difficult To Digest

Two women make out in the woods, two other women make out in the woods, one woman holds a blow torch. There are demon hands clawing at all of the stills, which are from the movie Make a Wish.

Two Decades Ago, a Lesbian Slasher Movie Came Out — Then It Turned Into a Ghost

Guinevere Turner says "I know some perfectly horrible homosexuals" in Queer for Fear.

Shudder’s “Queer for Fear” Shows Horror Has Always Been So Gay

Dana Scully stands in front of an open car trunk

The Seduction of Aliens

Sarah Paulson in American Horror Story: Asylum, Thomasin in The Witch, Adelaide in Us, Juliette and Calliope in First Kill, Sarah Paulson in American Horro Story: Cult, Halle Berry in Gothika, the film A Woman Walks Home Alone at Night, Deena from Fear Street, and Sidney Prescott from Scream

40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism

A bunch of demons encroach on a creepy being holding a knife in a window

Can You Survive This Horror Movie?

A still of a woman making a frightened face in the movie Symptoms

Long Live Eurosleaze

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

A Queer Woman’s Place Is in the Horror Story

Jennifer's Body, Nightmare on Elm Street 2, The Perfection, Hellraiser, Black Swan, The Haunting, Rebecca, Fear Street, We're All Going to the World's Fair

Autostraddle’s 25 Scariest Queer Horror Movie Moments

A bunch of vampires bare their fangs and are surrounded by red demons

Interview With a Tranpire

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes surrounded by lips with a split tongue emerging from them

The Unspeakable Shadows of Nightwood

Jamie Clayton as Pinhead in the Hellraiser 2022 remake

New “Hellraiser” Replaces Queer Subtext With Queer Characters With Mixed Results

The following books: Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, and What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

10 Queer Haunted House Books

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya takes a mirror selfie, surrounded by copies of her novelette HELEN HOUSE. A small ghost comes out of her phone.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy

Lauren Beatty as Grey in Bloodthirsty and Teagan Johnston as Catherine in The Strings wear headphones. A skeleton hand holding a flower reaches between them.

Slow Takes: The Year of Queer Indie Musicians Creating in Solitude and Losing Their Minds

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