I'm hugely grateful to the folks at Reactor for letting me write about the early stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane.
Matthew Cheney
Matthew Cheney (@melikhovo.bsky.social) examines what we can learn from Clive Barker and Joel Lane, two very different queer writers who began carving out new spaces in weird fiction and horror in the dark days of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis.
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At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...
