6-15-2026 Latham's Last Words: Pride Month Interviews: Brandon Perras-Sanchez

It's Pride Month and I've gathered some interviews with some amazing LGBTQIA+ authors which I will be posting throughout the month.

Chance led me to meeting Brandon and since then he's become a great friend. His smile and laugh are infectious and his books and movies are out of this world good.

Tell us a little about yourself.

Hello! I'm a writer, filmmaker, and actor who is inspired by 80s horror, folklore, fantasy, cryptozoology, mythology, metal, and noise rock. I grew up in the woods of Vermont and now reside in Providence, RI. I'm also a huge animal lover and hope to someday start an artist commune/animal rescue. I write mostly splatterpunked horror fantasy.

How important do you think queer representation in horror is?

I was aware of my homosexuality at a very young age, as most gay folks are. You start having “weird” feelings toward the same sex, which I’m sure is adjacent to the “weird” feelings straight kids get toward the opposite sex. Growing up in a conservative town, within a very conservative family, I had to hide out in the closet for an unpredictable amount of time. Since where I lived was so rural, my only window into any possible queerness was via 80's and 90's pop culture on cable TV and in the movies, which was egregiously macho and nearly devoid of any gay representation. The light smattering of representation that did exist was quite reductive, tropey, and palatable. Even though my family and friends were extremely caring, I felt unseen and overwhelmingly alone.

The first time I came across unapologetically gay characters, who were also the leads, was Clive Barker's In the Hills, the City, which is a segment of his legendary Books of Blood anthologies. They were also a gay couple! This fact seemed so alien to me because anytime I saw a gay couple in real life or on TV, I was taught that it was WRONG. I was also going through puberty at the time I discovered Barker, and I remember not only being super turned on by the graphic sex scene at the beginning of the story, but simultaneously feeling a slight reprieve and comfort from it. I saw that my urges weren’t deviant, they were normal, and other people were writing about them in a way that wasn’t under the lens of scrutiny or judgement. I was witnessing gayness that felt real, where the “camera” did not shy away from human nature, and it was life-saving. From that point on—and being hilariously unaware that Barker himself was a homosexual—I was on a quest to read all of his books. Anyone familiar with Clive knows that the majority of his stories are brazenly queer, and anytime I completed one, it strengthened my sense of belonging and expanded my perception of the world. 

So, to land this plane, representation is crucial. I will always include queer characters and/or subtext. I would be honored if any of my characters offered a lonely reader the same sort of sense of security or solace that I felt with Barker’s works. For how young I was at time, the cavernous internal isolation I was experiencing was an actual nightmare that no kid should ever endure. If my art can alleviate even a smidge of that kind of gloom, then mission accomplished.  

Tell us about your most recent release, or an upcoming release.

I'm currently working with my production crew, Monster Makeup, on our third full length film, Queen of the Rats, which takes place in 2006 in Providence’s thriving artist warehouse scene. It follows a noise rock band as they battle a nepo-baby gatekeeper, the dying mafia, and a mysterious monster. I'm also working on my fourth novel, The Hermit, which is a supernatural crime thriller/fantasy, about a serial killer that's brutally murdering psychics while being tracked by a psychic detective.

Which character you've created is your favorite and why?

It’s hard to settle on a favorite character from my own works. I had a total blast creating the various cryptids in Recessive Nature and the demons in To Break a Pale Yolk, but if I had to choose it would probably be Christy from Recessive Nature. Each of the four leads in Recessive Nature represent a different stage of my coming out process, and Christy’s is particularly special to me. Most people would never pick up on that—and that’s fine—it’s just something I wanted to do for myself. The subtext of the book, however, is quite universal to all readers, and they may recognize aspects of themselves as the characters battle and question their own natures to various degrees. I can’t really say much about Christie’s fate without giving anything away, but yeah, I’m very proud of her.

Where can readers find your books?

You can find my books at www.bpshorror.com and Amazon.

Where can readers follow you on Social Media? 

My Instagram is brandon_perras_sanchez and my Linktree and movie production company can all be found on www.bpshorror.com