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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror Queer author Hena Khan shares herThrough the lens of horrorfrom Halloween to Hereditaryqueer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropessuch as the circumspect and resilient final girl, body possession,