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Heather O. Petrocelli

Projects

Editor-at-large for Phantasmag

Reanimating the corpses of 70s and 80s horror zines, Phantasmag is a biannual print publication that centres queer and female perspectives. A cabinet of curiosities, the magazine explores horror in its many forms. I've served as Editor-at-large since its founding.
23 Dec 2025
Projects

Absolute Pleasure

Contributed an essay to this compilation of queer perspectives on Rocky Horror.
23 Dec 2025
Writing

FPO post

This is an example of an essay / transcript for the writing section.
23 Dec 2025
The List™

ZOMBIELAND

I started this massive film-viewing endeavor with the last film on the list alphabetically — Zombieland (2009). After living through the last 16 months, I have a visceral understanding of Columbus's observation: "It's amazing how quickly things can go from bad to total shit storm."
19 Dec 2024 1 min read
The List™

Introducing The List™

The primary goal of my study about horror-loving queers for my book Queer for Fear was not to do the expected and identify a corpus of queer or queered horror films, but instead to evidence that the entire genre is queer. The 4,107 queer horror fans who completed my
27 Nov 2024 1 min read
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