Unspeakable Horror!

If you haven't heard about it yet, I highly recommend checking out wowio.com.  They have an amazing selection of free e-books, comics, and poetry, including some excellent Queer Horror titles.  They operate on an ingenious business model: basically, each e-book download is sponsored, so the sponsor pays the publisher for the download, and you get the e-book for free.  Very cool.

I thought I would take this opportunity to pitch my theory that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the seminal work of American Queer Horror!  How's that for a theory.  

If you haven't read this story recently, you should definitely download the free copy from wowio and check it out.

The detective in the story, Dupin, has an overtly queer romance with the narrator at the beginning of the story.  I almost can't believe my eyes when I'm reading it.  Not only is it obvious, but it is very romantic in a gothic way!

After that, there is a definitively queer monster that is kept locked up in a closet (by a sailor, no less) until it bursts out to wreak havoc on the Paris night.  

I wrote a more complete analysis of the story earlier in this blog:

Part One! 

Part Two! 

But more importantly, surf on over to wowio and download the free e-book of this ultimate Queer Horror story.  I am completely in love with Poe!