Most horror narratives present narratives that neatly conform to the Freudian structure of repression and their monsters have strong homosexual, bisexual, and autosexual connotations. That is because of the impurity and dangerousness commonly associated to the practitioners of “non-normative” sexual habits, a large segment of conservative modern society sees them as monstrous. Our previous installment of Dread Reckoning, “ Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters” describes how, within the context of horror culture, the construction of non-heteronormative sexual identities exhibits a telling duality.
