The Best Episodes of Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(90 votes)

   #1 - Episode 1

   S1:E19/30/2022

   Queer gothic writers Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker invent the horror genre with "Frankenstein," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Dracula"; when cinema arrives, queer director F.W. Murnau shocks the world with his queer-coded "Nosferatu."

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   8.2/10(66 votes)

   #2 - Episode 2

   S1:E210/7/2022

   Gay director James Whale makes four classics that pave the way for all Hollywood horror movies after, but his career was dimmed by anti-gay sentiment; Alfred Hitchcock uses queer characters and queer coded stories to keep audiences in suspense.

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   7.9/10(56 votes)

   #3 - Episode 3

   S1:E310/14/2022

   Werewolves, cat people, body-snatchers and doppelgängers are uniquely queer metaphors; from the classic "The Wolf Man" to queer-authored "Cat People," the monsters of the 1940s express shame and seek to rid themselves of the secret self.

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   7.8/10(48 votes)

   #4 - Episode 4

   S1:E410/21/2022

   The dangerous queer woman has been terrorizing horror audiences since before the dawn of cinema; the lesbian vampire sucks the lifeblood from women and men alike in the gothic novella "Carmilla" and films like "Dracula's Daughter."

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