For spooky season -- and in honor of @raforall.bsky.social's new anthology Why I Love Horror -- I'm doing a series of essays exploring my own journey to the horror genre. First up: a history of my own scaredy cat childhood -- and shaping I consume horror today.
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Continuing my article series highlighting favorite authors, today's article covers horror author Rachel Harrison

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Pride Month meets Summerween
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Gateway to Horror: An Exploration of the Work of Mary Downing Hahn
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- the staircase in the woods (chuck wendig)
- the book of accidents (chuck wendig)
- wanderers & wayward (wendig) (hey, if the stand is horror, so are these two!!)

- Movies: the Fear Street trilogy, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Jennifer's Body (cmon...), bodies bodies bodies, I saw the TV glow, the babadook (🤣)
-someday, stuff by me!!
This genre is fucking amazing. I almost never specifically seek out queer horror, and it's like a reward every time!! 🏳️‍🌈👻🎃⚰️🌕🏚️🦇👭

- mothered (zoje stage)
- the magnus archives (a podcast you show listen to, it's excellent)
- TV shows: the haunting of bly manor, the haunting of hill house, midnight mass, fall of the house of usher, the midnight club, the x files (mulder and scully are bisexual and you aren't changing my mind)

- the hunger (alma katsu)
- the deep (alma katsu)
- camp damascus (chuck tingle)
- the haunting of hill house (shirley jackson)
- the reformatory (tananarive due) technically has some secondary queer characters and you should read it cause it's excellent
- the hollow place (t kingfisher)

-the babysitter lives (stephen graham jones)
- meddling kids (edgar cantero)
- such a pretty smile (kristi demeester)
- the haunting of velkwood (gwendolyn kiste)
- tell me i'm worthless (alison rumfitt)
- we need to do something (max booth III)
- family business (jonathan sims)

- reply hazy, try again (rachel harrison)
- (so thirsty by rachel harrison is sapphic but only thru subtext/in my heart)
- the final girl's support group (grady hendrix)
- thirteen storeys (jonathan sims)
- my heart is a chainsaw trilogy (stephen graham jones)

- graveyard of lost children (katrina monroe)
- through the midnight door by katrina monroe
- black river orchard (chuck wendig)
- burntown (jennifer mcmahon)
- the night sister (jennifer mcmahon)
- the drowning kind (jennifer mcmahon)
- dismantled by jennifer McMahon
- the return (rachel harrison)

In honor of Pride Month, I wanted to list some favorite queer horror of mine.
- heads will roll (josh winning)
- all hallows (christopher golden)
- king sorrow (joe hill, out later this year)
- rain (joe hill)
-we used to live here (marcus kliewer)
- they drown our daughters (katrina monroe)

I'm taking the opportunity, during my summer "Writing the Beach Read" class, to finally finish that "deal with the Devil" novel I started last year. I'm just wondering if maybe I should be nervous about the half a goat skull again