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Queer people and horror films are a match made in hell, and we’re kicking off spooky season by celebrating IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET, a new anthology from Feminist Press, with a night of dancing, drinks, prizes, and a show-stopping set by queer performance collective The Neon Coven.

Join your favorite queer writers and film buffs on the dance floor, get books signed by anthology contributors like Carmen Maria Machado, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Zefyr Lisowski, Richard Scott Larson, Joe Vallese, and more, and enjoy a campy, sexy, hilarious performance by our friends at The Neon Coven, who promise three things: queer people, theatee in nontraditional spaces, and screaming.

We can’t wait to celebrate all things queer horror with film fiends, literature lovers, drag devotees, and all the witches in Brooklyn.

About IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET:

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer 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 tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world.

It Came from the Closet features twenty-five essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.