Not reading this yet because I'm in the middle of writing about Lane but the rest of you should immediately:
Zachary Gillan
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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reactormag.com
At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...