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“True Colours”: Queering Gender, Monstrosity, and Humanity in Little Nightmares II
- When:
- May 12, 2026 · 3:48 PM
- Where:
- Little Nightmares II
- Source:
- Getglue e Miso. La gamification contagia il consumo televisivo « G
Katie Garrett (Independent researcher) Download the pdf Abstract This paper conducts a “too-close reading” (Miller, Ruberg) of the indie horror game Little Nightmares II (2021) to consider how – through its narrative and formalist aesthetics, as well as surrounding paratext – queer readings of gender and horror linger beneath the surface. Structured around Jan-Noël Thon’s framework (2019) for analysing indie game aesthetics, and informed by literature on abjection (Kristeva), constructions of mo