8 Books About Queer Hauntings - Electric Literature

8 Books About Queer Hauntings - Electric Literature

I have a soft spot for ghosts. I see them as a re-emergence of that which has been repressed, their hauntings as a return of the past, either in quiet encroaching or in violent invasion into the present. So restored, the exiled can be either re-integrated or banished, suppressed again. It can also, as it sometimes happens with queer things, and the word itself, be reclaimed. My relationship with the idea of reclaiming is somewhat uneasy because,…