"In their very different ways, they show us how to keep weird fiction weird and horror horrific—how to use the harmful and impolite qualities of the genre toward creative, transgressive, artistic, and innovative ends."
Matt Zoller Seitz
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...
