What is it about?
This essay considers the depiction of Queer Horror ad Gothic Love in contemporary Netflix Series’ Ratched (2021) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2021) building on my academic work that has analysed the uses of Horror and Gothic Narratives by LGBTQ+ people to speak about and through their marginalisation by heteronormative society.
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Why is it important?
This essay comes at a time in which LGBTQ+ subjects find themselves at the heart of a culture war which has seen a rolling back on progressive rights, the world of Horror and the Gothic often features a freeing, cathartic way of expressing those fears of loss, Otherness and difference.
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Queer Gothic Horror often presents itself as initially ‘Horror’ and generically full of the tropes that are easy to identify, but when watching or at a second glance, such genre work does better progressive work to demonstrate the nuances of queer love and relationships within the parameters of the Gothic setting.
Darren Elliott-Smith
University of Stirling
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This page is a summary of: “Same Thing Really”: Queer Love and Horror as “Gothicky” in Ratched and The Haunting of Bly Manor, April 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004698321_007.
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