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Easy, Geraldo.

So I'm joined today by Dr. Harry Benchoff and he is a faculty member in the Department of Media

Arts at the University of North Texas. And you are also the author of a seminal queer horror

academic text called Monsters in the Closet. That is correct.

Well, thank you so much for agreeing to speak with me.

I think one of the things that's most important for me is that people understand that there's a legacy to queer horror.

So I'm actually very interested to hear, how did you get your start?

And I guess what attracted you to queer horror in the beginning? Sure. Well,

I was attracted to horror films as a child very, very early on. And I think that, you know,

before I even knew what sexuality was, I was kind of sensing or feeling kind of a kinship with these

kind of outsider figures that,

you know, are the classical sort of monsters. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so we had famous

monsters of film land, right? And so they were resurrecting or recirculating all of the sort of

universal horror films and those figures,

Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy, et cetera, as well as covering the new horror films

that were coming out in the 60s and 70s as well. So, you know, I ended up doing film history,

but, you know, it started as a kid watching monster movies. And very specifically, again, feeling some sort of like, I like the monsters, you know,

the, I often sort of say as well, it's not called the Adventures of Jonathan Harker

and the Land of the Vampires. It's called Dracula.

So, you know, they're always the most interesting figures in the

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