Horrors in the Closet: Transgressing All Boundaries
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/63047/horrors-in-the-closet-transgressing-all-boundaries/9/19/2008
Previously, in Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters, we
analyzed the literary origins of the four archetypes of horror
culture, Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dorian
Gray. And in Horrors in the Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative
Scapegoating, we discussed the cinematic genre up to the 1960s. This
is the final installment that explores the varied ways in which horror
films construct non-heteronormative sexual identities as monstrous.
