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RUE MORGUE
Canada's Premier Horror Magazine
Modern Horror Bimonthly Magazine from Canada

- First issue: 1998
- There are an average of three main features in any given issue: The first is the cover story, usually an interview with a celebrity, the second feature is reserved for a musician or group who have drawn heavily from the genre in making their music and in the third feature they try to emphasize the culture of horror, and how it has developed throughout history.
- Published by MARRS Press.
- Website: www.rue-morgue.com

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Issue 138
October 2013

Issue 137
September 2013

Issue 136
August 2013

Nearly two years after its world premiere lit up the midnight audience at the Toronto International Film Festival, You’re Next brings its home invasion horror to theatres.
PLUS: We untangle the intersecting resumes of the You’re Next gang, and V/H/S/2 reviewed.

by Dave Alexander, Trevor Tuminski, Scott Feinblatt and Sam Costello

WORLDWIDE MONSTER WAR

Guillermo del Toro pits mechs against kaiju creatures in Pacific Rim, his biggest film yet.
PLUS: A look at Irish sea-monster comedy Grabbers, in which the only way to avoid being tasted, is to get wasted.

by Michael Doyle and Phil Brown

WAR MACHINES

After his stalled Nazi zombies project Worst Case Scenario, Richard Raaphorst returns with new WWII horrors in Frankenstein’s Army.
PLUS: The Frankenstein Theory reviewed.

by Peter Gutierrez and Dave Alexander

CONSPIRACY RESURRECTION

In time for the 20th anniversary of the TV series’ premiere, The X-Files gets a tenth season – in comic books.

by Monica S. Kuebler

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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Storming the Castle.

DREADLINES

Harryhausen art show coming to Los Angeles; FX Artist Tom Woodruff, Jr. to helm first feature; J.T. Petty scripts upcoming survival horror game.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bio-Mechanical Monsters.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Zombie Wine Bottle Holder; Silence of the Lambs Wines; Elvira Coffin Purse; VHS Horror Pillows.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Tourist Trap, World War Z, The Conjuring, Dead Souls, Night of the Living Ed, Axe Giant: the Wrath of Paul Bunyan, and more! Reissues reviews Castle Freak (1995), Soft for Digging (2001) and Hands of the Ripper (1971).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: And Then There Were None.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: The Alligator People.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features The Man Who Laughs, plus reviews of The Extinction Parade #1, Baltimore: The Inquisitor, Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #1 of 3, Six-Gun Gorilla #1 of 6, and the Wake #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Alexander Gordon Smith’s The Fury. Library of the Damned gets haunted. Plus, reviews of Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint, Hauntings, Peter Cushing: A Life in Film, Seth Patrick’s Reviver, and more!

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Jason Edmiston, Part II.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Michael MagGot.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring Marco Beltrami’s World War Z score. Listen to My Nightmare turns the spotlight on Midnight Syndicate. Plus reviews of Dark Skies OST, Last Exorcism 2 OST, Goatcraft, Keep Our Heads compilation, Black Sabbath, Pest, Necronomicon, and Gulaggh.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of The Last of Us and State of Decay.

CLASSIC CUT

Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.”

Issue 135
July 2013

Issue 134
June 2013

Issue 133
May 2013

Issue 132
April 2013

THE WOODS ARE ALIVE
Thoughts of an Evil Dead remake threatening to swallow your soul? Director Fede Alvarez explains that having Sam Raimi in your corner is just one reason to welcome back the deadites.
PLUS: Straight from the set, the cast and crew take us behind the scenes, and more!
by Monica S. Kuebler and Sean Plummer
LONG LIVE 80S HORROR
Scream Factory is reviving one of the best decades for genre films, one pre-CGI gem at a time. PLUS: Steve Railsback talks Lifeforce, Renny Harlin on Prison, and more!
by April Snellings, Sean Plummer, Stuart F. Andrews, Tal Zimerman, Dave Alexander, Andrea Subissati, James Burrell and Scott Neumyer
DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN
‘Tis the month to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, Germany’s diabolical cousin of Halloween.
by Moaner T. Lawrence
RETURN OF THE BIG BOX BEAST
Charles Band makes VHS horror freaks go mental by resurrecting Wizard Video.
By Tal Zimerman
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Do you suffer from fangina?
DREADLINES
Phil Anselmo and Author Corey Mitchell Launch Housecore Horror Film Festival; Toy Story 3 Director Uncovers Lost Ending to The Shining; Black Museum Lecture Series Launches 2013 Program.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Tree Mistreatment.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Zombie Bobblehead; Wall Torch; Hammer Dracula Bust; Zombie Flamingo.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Stoker, Dark Skies, Warm Bodies, Sleep Tight, Citadel, Axed and more! Reissues reviews Toxic Avenger: The Japanese Cut (1984), Chiller (1995), and Mark of the Devil (1970).
THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE
In The Vault: The Name of the Game is Kill.
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Dug Up: Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features London Horror Comic, plus reviews of Hellraiser: The Dark Watch #1, Morbius: The Living Vampire #1, Baltimore: The Widow and the Tank, Snapshot #1 of 4, The Curse of Dracula.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Laird Barron’s new short fiction collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Library of the Damned takes bad book covers to task. Plus, reviews of Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist, Fear the Abyss, Australian Horror Films 1973-2010, Richard Gavin's At Fear’s Altar, Allan Grave's The Zombook and Jeremy Saffer and Ash Costello's Till Death: A Guide to Love and Loss.
THE FRIGHT GALLERY
M.Fersner’s Diabolical Art Deco.
THE GORE-MET
Menu: Come and Get Me.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring Ghost Ballads by Lonsome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks. Listen to My Nightmare provides A Brief History of Horror Music Makeup. Plus reviews of Mama OST, The Relic OST, The Last Man on Earth OST, John Dies at the End OST, Combichrist, Tombstone Highway, Devourment, Wormed, and more.
PLAY DEAD
Features reviews of Aliens: Colonial Marines and Universal Monsters Online.
CLASSIC CUT
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror

Issue 131
March 2013

Issue 130
January/February 2013

Issue 129
December 2012

MIDIAN CALLING

Two decades ago Clive Barker's Nightbreed was taken out of his hands and butchered by the studio. Now, thanks to a dedicated fanbase, the visionary Cabal Cut takes form.
PLUS: Interviews with actors Simon Bamford, Hugh Ross, Anne Bobby and Nicholas Vince.

by Ron McKenzie

RESTLESS SPIRITS

Genre legend Lance Henriksen taps Native American folklore for his first comic series, To Hell You Ride.
PLUS: Dark Horse editor-in-chief Scott Allie on building the company's horror line, and more!

by Monica S. Kuebler and Pedro Cabezuelo

HO-HO-HOMICIDE

Two of the men behind Silent Night, Deadly Night gift us with their fond - and not-so fond - memories of the scandalous 1984 slasher flick.
PLUS: Director Steven C. Miller on the remake.

by Aaron Von Lupton and Scott Neumyer

FROM ANVIL TO ALFRED

Hitchcock director Sacha Gervasi explains how making a rock doc got him behind the camera on a star studded biopic about the Master of Suspense.

by Stuart F. Andrews

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

"What is this place?"

DREADLINES

30 Days of Night creators Niles and Templesmith reunite; Gregory Lamberson spearheads new eBook format with upcoming novel; "Sleepy Hollow" to get biker makeover in Chopper Movie.

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Barker's Beasts and Bad Guys

NEEDFUL THINGS

Day of the Dead Corkscrew, Nevermore Body Company Three Witches Line, Frankie And His Bride Salt and Pepper Shakers, and Ouija Shoes.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Julian Richard's Darklands, plus reviews of Frankenweenie, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, The Hole, Airborne, FDR: American Badass, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, Bloody Tease, Blood Oath and Tied In Blood. Reissues reviews They Live (1988), The Night of the Devils (1972), The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features, House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: Gifts that Keep on Killing.

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Hard Rock Zombies.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Haunted Horror, plus reviews of Ghost #1, The Pound: Ghouls Night Out #1, Sleepy Hollow #1, Rachel Rising #11 and Billy The Kid's Old Timey Oddities and the Orm of Loch Ness #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Musique Fantastique: 100 Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Film Music. Library of the Damned finds a new Christmas horror classic in Brom's Krampus: The Yule Lord. Plus, reviews of The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre, Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: Volume 2, The Book of Cthulhu II, Hunter Shea's Swamp Monster Massacre, Mark Morris' Vampire Circus, Nicholas Vince's What Monsters Do and R.L. Stine's Red Rain.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Marc Hagan-Guirey's Horrorgami.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Frank 'N' Flesh.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the strange sounds of Corpusse. The Devil's Playlist explores the Darker Side of Christmas. Plus, reviews of Silent Hill: Revelation OST, Truth or Dare OST, Dead Souls OST, Alain Leonard and Alex Wank, Cradle of Filth, Swamp Thing, Theologian, Malignancy, and Satan's Wrath.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Resident Evil 6 and You Are The Maniac!

CLASSIC CUT

The Other (1972).

Rue Morgue Library # 24
December 2012

Issue 128
November 2012

THE ESSENCE OF EVIL

On the 25th anniversary of Prince of Darkness, we ask John Carpenter to explain his fascinating yet misunderstood excursion into the heart of pure malevolence.
PLUS: Alice Cooper talks about playing the film's lethal, bike-wielding street schizo; composer Alan Howarth on how he and Carpenter created their groundbreaking score, and more.

by Michael Doyle, Dave Alexander, A.S. Berman and Patrick Dolan

PARASITE FEVER

The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival unveiled all kinds of horror gems, including The Bay, a sickening found-foorage parasite movie from veteran Hollywood director Barry Levinson.
PLUS: A round-up of the Fest's genre films.

by Phil, Brown, Dave Alexander, Stuart F Andrews, Liisa Ladouceur, Ron Mckenzie, Sean Plummer and April Snellings

THE DUALITY OF DARKNESS

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D writer/director Michael J. Bassett reflects on a series that dirtorts its characters' worst fears into a nightmarish vision of Hell.

by Dave Alexander

WEST OF HELL

A new album and novel from country doom duo Those Poor Bastards revels in ole timey grime and gore.

by April Snellings

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Apocalypse angst.

DREADLINES

Best Worst Movie director returns with home haunter doc; The Gate's Louis Tripp reinvents himself as a musician, writer; Dark Regions press launches psychological horror imprint.

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Sentient Slime.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Six Million Dollar Man Bigfoot Retro Figure, Death Wish Coffee, Zombie Foot Dog Chew, and Zombie Apocalypse Hot Sauce.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Richard Bates Jr.'s Excision, plus reviews of Sinister, House at the End of the Street, The Barrens, Haven: The Complete Second Season, The Moth Diaries, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Lost Woods, Kids Go To The Woods...Kids Get Dead and Mourning Wood. Reissues reviews Terror Train (1980), Fallen (1998), Mother's Day (1980) and Sleepwalkers (1992).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: The Poverty Row Cinema of Sam Newfield.

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dug Up: The Giant Gila Monster.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Love Monster, plus reviews of B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth - The Return of the Master #1 of 5, Night Stalker #1, Homecoming #1, Lobster Johnson: Caput Mortuum and Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: The web-based freaky, fictional folklore of creepypasta. Plus, reviews of Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America, Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its Internationcal Reception, 1800-2000, Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils, David Wong's This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, A.J. Colucci's The Colony, Love You To Death: The Unofficial Guide to The Vampire Diaries Season 3, Guy Adams' Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr. Moreau, and Glen Hirshberg's Motherless Child.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

The Cult of Chris Kuchta

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Porkchop II: Rise of the Rind and Zombie Babies.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the dark electronica of Pittersplatter. The Devil's Playlist grills The Mission Creeps about their latest disc, Halloween. Plus reviews of Eraserhead OST, Frankenweenie OST, Friday the 13th OST, Troglodyte, The Evil Streaks, Seremonia, The Jimmy Psycho Experiment and Mastamind.

PLAY DEAD

Reviews of Darksiders II, The Sims 3: Supernatural, The Walking Dead and Murder of Crows.

CLASSIC CUT

The Stone Tape (1972).

Issue 127
October 2012

UNIVERSAL THE STUDIO THAT MONSTERS BUILT!

Genre historian David J. Skal helps us celebrate 100 years of Universal Studios and the classic creatures it spawned.
Plus! Carla Laemmle takes us back to when she lived on the Universal lot, the children of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi reflect on their fathers' legacies, Creature From the Black Lagoon star Julie Adams and writer Tom Weaver on Universal's last great monster franchise, the lore of Germany's Castle Frankenstein, the five greatest sequels, and more!

by James Burrell, Paul Corupe, Moaner T.Lawrence, Sean Plummer and April Snellings

CINEMA APOCALYPTICA

If the Mayans are right, 2012 is the year we're all gonna die - the only question is, how? For years, filmmakers have speculated on all the ways our species could end, and we decided to catalogue 'em for your Armageddon convenience.

by Staff

'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY

Upon release, fans of the franchise hated it for its lack of Michael Myers, 30 years later Halloween III stands on its own.
Plus! We weigh the treats versus the tricks of the new Blu-ray reissues of Halloween II through 5.

by Michael Doyle and Aaron Von Lupton

ALL KINDS OF MONSTERS

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett gives genre fans a peek at his collection of rare horror memorabilia with a new book called Too Much Horror Business.

by Trevor Tuminski

FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2012

Rue Morgue's 9th annual horror convention in pictures.

by Ashlea Wessel and Dave Alexander

THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED

Just in time for Halloween, we recount the history of Disney's world famous Haunted Mansion.

by Mike Beardsall

HAUNTED REALITY

When it comes to scaring the hell out of an audience, the makers of Paranormal Activity 4 know that the secret lies in the normal.

by Dave Alexander

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

My Frankenstein.

DREADLINES

Eli Roth's Goretorium open in Las Vegas; Urban zombie game inspired by Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later; Racially charged story ignites controversy at Weird Tales.

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Apocalyptic Atrocities.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection Blu-ray; Bela Lugosi Dracula Model Kit; Ring of Dracula Prop Replica; and Mummy Minimates Box Set.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Jennifer Lynch's Chained, and animated monster movies ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania. Plus reviews of Solomon Kane, The Possession, Father's Day, Grimm: Season One, Bait, Screaming in High Heels, Crepuscule, PWCA, Her Heart Still Beats, The Revenant, Starship Troopers: Invasion, Deadtime, Dreams of the Dead, Where the Dead Go To Die, and My Sucky Teen Romance. Reissues features the five best episodes of the British TV series Hammer House of Horror, plus reviews Rosemary's Baby (1968), Re-Animator (1985), Death Watch (1980), Twins of Evil (1971) and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

TCM Underground.

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Funhouse (1981).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Colder, plus reviews of The Creep #0 of 5, Godzilla: The Hald Century War #1 of 5, Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1, and Debris #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: John Skipp's Psychos anthology. Library of the Damned rounds up five books for the bunker. Plus, reviews of Becoming Ray Bradbury, European Nightmares: Horror Cinema In Europe Since 1945, Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, Hugh Sterbakov's City Under the Moon, Corrine de Winter's Valentines for the Dead, David Annadale's Gethsemane Hall, Mariah de la Croix's Restless in Peace, and The Vampire Combat Manual.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

Raiding the '80s with Slasher Design.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Death Metal's Goriest Platters.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring a round-up of monster records. The Devil's Playlist compiles one last listening party for the end of the world. Plus, reviews of Brutal OST, I Married a Monster from Outer Space/The Atomic City OST, Lady In A Cage OST, When a Stranger Calls OST, Zonen, The Birthday Massacre, The Panic Beats, Jess and the Ancient Ones, Chrysalide, Dethklok, Dopethrone, Auroch, Nile, Dublin Death Patrol, and Autopsy's brand-new DVD.

PLAY DEAD

We play Dystopia Rising: A Zombie Larp, plus reviews of Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC and Eerie Estate Agent.

CLASSIC CUT

Rondo Hatton (1894-1946).

Issue 126
September 2012

GENERATION SICK
Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral sees disease, technology and celebrity worship mutate into a New Flesh nightmare for the 21st century.
PLUS: Hunger, sleep deprivation and pain - Antiviral star Caleb Landry Jones on playing disease bootlegger Syd March, and more.
by Dave Alexander, Trevor Tuminski and Ariel Esteban Cayer
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND TALL
To mark the 40th anniversary of the original Stan Winston Studio, the legendary character creator's son celebrates his legacy of mind-blowing creature craft.
by Jamison Ryan and Trevor Tuminski
FANTASIA 2012
Time for a sneak peek at the maddest horror movies on the horizon, courtesy of our annual pilgrimage to Montreal's legendary genre film festival.
by Dave Alexander, Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Paul Corupe, Michele Galgana, Andy Mauro and Tal Zimerman
ANOTHER ONE FOR THE FIRE
Zombie Burger owner George Formaro celebrates one year of asking customers,"D'ya want brains with that?"
by Melissa Cocetta
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
More human than human.
DREADLINES
Oliver Stone's son plays himself in his ghostly debut feature; New Ontario-based animation house reviving stop-motion monsters; Zombie-themed cruise sets sail in January.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Stan Winston's coolest creatures.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Skull Violin, Alien Chopstick, Bigfoot Air Freshener, and Prefectly Random Jewellery.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of V/H/S, The Tall Man, The Victim, Some Guy Who Kills People, The River: The Complete First Season, ATM, Midnight Son, Scalene, Ratline, Black Rat, and Rat Scratch Fever. Reissues reviews Jaws (1975), Altered States (1980), Brainstorm (1983), and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).
THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE
It Came from Outer Space (1953).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Prophecy (1979).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Pinocchio, Vampire Killer Volume 3: Of Wood and Blood, plus reviews of Revival #1, Eerie Comics #1, The Infernal Man-Thing #1 of 3, Hoax Hunters #1, and Hellblazer #292.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Dark Faith: Invocations. Library of the Damned looks for the Devil in the genre. Plus, reviews of The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema, Kier-La Janisse's House of Psychotic Women, Horror and the Horror Film, A Book of Horrors, Corey Redekop's Husk, Stefan Grabinski's On the Hill of Roses, Rob Deborde's Portlandtown: A Tale of the Oregon Wyldes, and The Ultimate Dead Baby Joke Book.
THE FRIGHT GALLERY
Raiding the '80s with Slasher Design.
THE GORE-MET
Menu: Death Metal's Goriest Platters.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring glam-rock ghouls The 69 Eyes. The Devil's Playlist calls out Scum of the Earth's Riggs. Plus, reviews of Rosemary's Baby OST, Prometheus OST, Johnny Flesh & The Redneck Zombies, Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, Calabrese, Rob Zombie, Grave, and The Forsaken.
PLAY DEAD
Features reviews of The Secret World and Deadlight.
CLASSIC CUT
On the Beach (1959).

Issue 125
August 2012

THE LIFE, LOVES AND STRANGE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY
Filmmaker Tim Sullivan visited the author's home last year and sat down with him for a final interview. In this Rue Morgue exclusive, we get a very intimate look at the late literary legend.
PLUS: A roundup of some of Bradbury's best contributions to EC Comics in the 1950s, and the most impressive TV, movie and vintage audio adaptations of his work.
by Tim Sullivan, Paul Corupe, Jason Pichonsky and A.S. Berman
BLOOD IN THE WATER
A new in-depth documentary examines the lasting impact of the biggest horror movie ever made, Jaws.
PLUS: Producer Richard D. Zanuck takes us back to the beach.
by Aaron Von Lupton and James Burrell
THE FERAL CANVAS
Fuelled by metal and a love of '80s horror movies, Dan Mumford's art gives even the fiercest beasts a touch of grace.
by Moaner T. Lawrence
FAITH & PHANTOMS
The Awakening pits a diehard supernatural skeptic against a house with a horrible past.
by Phil Brown
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Mind over mortality.
DREADLINES
Exorcist play updates original novel with modern evils; Slipknot launches Apocalypse-themed music fest; First and final Man-Thing comics to be released together this Halloween.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Villainous Volumes.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Lego Monster Fighter Sets, Zombie Bath Salts, Cthulhu Tiki Mug, and Frankenstein Tissues.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Prometheus, [REC]3 Genesis, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Devil's Carnival, Beyond the Black Rainbow, A Little Bit Zombie, George: A Zombie Intervention, The Zombie Farm, and Zombie Chronicles. Reissues reviews Chillers (1987), Gums (1976), Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Samson vs. The Vampire Women (1982), and Where Evil Lives (1989).
THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE
The Mad Magician (1954).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Death Ship (1980).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Dorian Gray, plus reviews of Mars Attacks #1, Extermination #1, Pantha #1, Grim Leaper #2 of 4, and Severed (HC)
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Chelsea Cain's Kill You Twice. Library of the Damned hunts down some New Zealand genre lit. Plus, reviews of Prometheus: The Art of the Film, Mysterious Minnesota: Digging Up the Ghostly Past at 13 Haunted Sites, John Hornor Jacobs' This Dark Earth, Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off, Caroline Munro: First Lady of Fantasy, Kim Newman's Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron and Laird Barron's This Light is the Darkness.
THE FRIGHT GALLERY
Godmachine.
THE GORE-MET
Menu: Dear God No! and The Turnpike Killer.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring the costumed theatrics of A Band of Orcs. The Devil's Playlist grills death rapper Necro. Plus, reviews of Predator OST, Piranha 3DD, The Pact OST, Vampires Everywhere!, Skinny Puppy, Nachtmystium, Denial of God, Zombiefication, and Satanic Bloodspraying.
PLAY DEAD
Features reviews of Lollipop Chainsaw and The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb
CLASSIC CUT
The Literature of Terror (1980).

Issue 124
July 2012

The Demon's Plaything - Interview with Sidney J Furie, Ghosts of Horror Past - 25 Lost Films, Digging the Dirt with William Lustig, Touring Can Be Brutal - An Audience with Dethklok, Diablo III, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Other.

Issue 123
June 2012

Love Hurts - The Loved Ones, The Invasion Begins Again1 - Mars Attacks, Miniskirt Massacre - Lollipop Chainsaw, Teller of Strange Tales - George Clayton Johnson, Marduk, Garbage Pail Kids, Zaat.

Issue 122
May 2012

The Blood of Collinwood - Dark Shadows, Jonathan Frid and other cast remember the TV classic, Tim Burton on his remake, The First Wave of Israeli Horror Cinema, River Monsters - Legendary Freshwater Killers, Eduardo Sanchez's Lovely Molly, The Walking Dead Video Game, Strange Paradise, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Issue 121
April 2012

The Spirit of '82 - 30 Years of Poltergeist, Thrills, Chills & Double Bills - The Story of Crown International Pictures, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Industrial Metal Messiah Al Jourgensen, Viva La Rotten Revolucion - Juan of the Dead, The Devil's Carnival, Beowulf, Sarah Pinborough, The Boogens.

Issue 120
March 2012

Issue 119
January/February 2012

FORLORN MANOR
The cast and crew of The Woman in Black tell us why Susan Hill's haunted house tale may just be "the perfect ghost story."
PLUS: The scoop on London's long-running stage production of The Woman in Black from its stars, a look back at the original novel, and more!
by Monica S. Kuebler, Cleaver Patterson, Sean Plummer and Dave Alexander

FANGS TO FLESH
Before Jean Rollin died in 2010, one of his biggest fans travelled to his Paris apartment to talk about a career forged in naked vampires and Gothic surrealism.
PLUS: The author of Fascination: The Jean Rollin Experience blog weighs in on Redemption's five new Jean Rollin Blu-ray reissues.
by Eric S. Eichelberger and Jeremy Richey

BUNKER MENTALITY
Nod in agreement, shake your fists in rage or send us a strongly worded letter - whatever you do, read what yanked our cranks this past year in horror.
by Phil Brown, with Dave Alexander

R.I.P. 2011: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Sperm monsters, gay werewolves, Nazi science, zombie orgies and shit jokes - Chillerama gives grindhouse the anthology treatment.
by Staff

THE 2012 HORROR CONVENTION AND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Ready to scar that new calendar with a fresh batch of horror appointments?
by Staff

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Goodbye, Ghoulish One.

DREADLINES
Run for Your Lives adds new hurdle to obstacle courses: zombies; Night of the Living Dead alumnus seeks help to preserve iconic chapel; Rue Morgue expands into Italy.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Motel Monstrosities.

NEEDFUL THINGS
Create Your Own Zombie Action Figures; Lovecraftian Letters Fridge Poetry; Night of the Living Dead Karen Cooper Bobblehead; Killhouettes

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Ti West's The Innkeepers, plus reviews of Hostel: Part III, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Produce Your Own Damn Movie!, The Howling Reborn, Atrocious, The Child's Eye, The Perfect House, Face in the Crowd, Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol, and Demon Divas and the Lanes of Destruction. Reissues reviews Zombie (1979), Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy (1993-2001), Evil Dead 2: 25th Anniversary Edition (1987), Frankenhooker (1990), Maniac Cop (1988), and Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981).

CINEMARQUEE
Mysterious Island (1961).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Monsters Among Us, Dark Shadows #1, The Pack #1 of 3, Fleshdigger #1, Hawken #1, and The Strain #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Inhabit Media's dark Inuit folk tales. Library of the Damned talks adapting novels to comics with P.C. Cast, author of the House of Night YA book series. Plus, reviews of Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Walking Dead, The Films of Oliver Reed, Jaws: Memories From Martha's Vineyard, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Stephen Romano's Black Light, Supernatural Noir, Jeff Burk's Cripple Wolf, Daphne Du Maurier's The Doll: The Lost Short Stories, and John Thomas Grant's Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Hell, Michigan.

THE GORE-MET
Menu: Grotesque and Macabre.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring the morbidly fun punk rock of Stellar Corpses. The Blood Spattered Guide reviews Rammstein's Made in Germany 1995-2011. Plus, reviews of The Thing (2011) OST, Mimic OST, Chillerama presents Zom-B-Movie OST, Hookers, Rufus Rex, Forbidden Dimension, Nine Covens, and Cradle of Filth.

PLAY DEAD
Features The Walking Dead vs. The Walking Dead, a cage match between the two new WD board games, plus reviews of Infamous 2: Festival of Blood, Pet Zombies, and Age of Zombies Anniversary.

CLASSIC CUT
Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife (1943).

Issue 118
December 2011

LEFT HAND OF DOOM
With his new autobiography, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi looks back on the eerie history and diabolical influence of heavy metal's founding fathers.
PLUS: Jack Osbourne on his new Ozzy doc, and more.
by Trevor Tuminski and Martin Popoff

SURVIVING AFRICA
Corruption, malaria, cannibalism - as The Dead director Howard J. Ford explains, it's all part of breaking new ground in the zombie subgenre.
PLUS: We chart the outbreak of global undead cinema.
by Sean Plummer and Peter Gutierrez

GEARS OF FEAR
Artisan Thomas Kuntz opens up about the clockwork horrors that make him tick.
by Justin Humphreys

DOWN 'N' DIRTY DRIVE-IN
Sperm monsters, gay werewolves, Nazi science, zombie orgies and shit jokes - Chillerama gives grindhouse the anthology treatment.
by April Snellings

UNTOWARD TOYS
To mark the Living Dead Dolls' thirteenth anniversary, Rue Morgue asks creators Damien Glonek and Ed Long about their line of loveable little hellspawn.
by Last Chance Lance

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Hypocrites and horror fans.

DREADLINES
Brandon Cronenberg follows in his father's footsteps with Antiviral; Weird Tales evolves once again with new ownership; GWAR guitarist found dead on tour bus.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Children of the Grave.

NEEDFUL THINGS
The Year of the Dead 2012 Swimsuit Calendar; Cthulhu Waterglobe; Zombie Fridge Magnets; and Vampire Fangs Bottle Opener.

MEMENTO MORGUE
Rue Morgue's Banquet of Blood, Misfits show, Father's Day Cinemacabre, and more!

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, plus reviews of The Thing, Paranormal Activity 3, The Skin I Live In, The Sylvian Experiments, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, The Last Circus, Retreat, The Caller, Supernatural: The Anime Series, VLOG, Paranormal Entity, Paranormal Effect and Paranormal Parody. Abbreviated Terrors gives the final word on Up Under the Roof, Oysters & Pearls, and Mangrove Slasher 2. Reissues features Canada's first horror film, The Mask, plus reviews of Torso (1973), Subspecies 20th Anniversary Edition (1991), The Incredible Melting Man (1977) and The Bad Seed (1956).

CINEMARQUEE
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Cry Baby Lane (2000).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Brian Ralph's Daybreak, plus reviews of 30 Days of Night #1, Key of Z #1 of 4, H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror #1 of 4, Legions of Monsters #1 of 4, and The Thing: The Northman Nightmare.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Turn-of-the-century French scribe Maurice Level. Library of the Damned shares a favourite zombie story. Plus, reviews of Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes; Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Night Eternal, Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead, Steven W. Booth and Harry Shannon's The Hungry; Michael Rowe's Enter, Night; Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson and Tim Waggoner's Ghost Trackers; and The Buffyverse Catalog.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Le Manoir de Paris - Paris, France.

THE GORE-MET
Menu: tenebrarum.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring drum and bass horror duo NC-17. The Blood Spattered Guide reviews Danzig's Legacy show. Plus, reviews of Fright Night OST, X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes/Tales of Terror: "Morella" OST, Gears of War 3 OST, Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks, Erebus Enthroned, The Brains, Misfits, Behemoth, and Untimely Demise.

PLAY DEAD
Features a preview of The Darkness II, plus reviews of Dark Souls and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.

CLASSIC CUT
Black Sabbath's "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (UK - 1970).

Issue 117
November 2011

OVERTURE OF FEAR
The story behind 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is as ugly and elusive as the character himself. The man behind the film's latest incarnation delves into its legacy.
PLUS: Carla Laemmle, the last surviving cast member of the original Phantom, recalls the making of a masterpiece, and composer Gabriel Thibaudeau looks back on more than twenty years of performing his acclaimed live score.
by James Burrell and Trevor Tuminski

THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV TERROR
Rue Morgue tunes into an era when high-quality, original horror movies were a staple of prime-time television.
PLUS: Ten unlikely shows that have flirted with the dark side.
by Kier-la Janisse and Dan Murphy

DIRTY DOZEN
We link up with the director and star of The Human Centipede 2 to discuss raising the stakes on the disturbing pop culture phenomenon.
by Stuart F. Andrews

ARCHITECTURE OF THE DEAD
Empire of Death invites readers to visit the bone churches of the world and learn their secrets.
by Claire Horsnell

ABOMINABLE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
After four decades, Dr. Phibes returns in a new novel by his creator, William Goldstein.
by James Burrell

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Faces, phantoms and freak shows.

DREADLINES
Canadian horror producer John Dunning dead at 84; Scream queen Barbara Crampton returns; The Exorcist adapted for stage.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Rat Attacks.

NEEDFUL THINGS
Friday the 13th DVD Collection, Skeletal Aprons, Batmosphere Necklace, and Skeleton Espresso Cups.

MEMENTO MORGUE
Guillermo del Toro at CineMacabre, KillerCon 3, Encyclopedia Gothica book launch, and more!

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features 2011 Toronto International Film Festival wrap-up, plus reviews of Red State, Contagion, Apollo 18, Super Hybrid, The Clinic, 51, Deadgirl. Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island, Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness, Sportkill, and Hidden. Reissues features makeup effects artist Mark Shostrom on Evil Dead II. Also, reviews of Halloween II (1981), Blue Sunshine (1978), The Pyx (1973), The Exterminator (1980), The Devil Within Her (1975), Dressed to Kill (1980) and The Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964).

CINEMARQUEE
Kuroneko (1932).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Orca (1977).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Severed, plus reviews of Battle for the Planet of the Living Dead #1, Kult #1 of 4, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Russia #1 of 5, John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles, The Living Corpse: Exhumed #1

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Weird fiction publisher Chomu Press. Library of the Damned has the True Blood blues. Plus, reviews of Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting, How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies, Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, Ronald Malfi's Floating Staircase, John Hornor Jacob's Southern Gods, Death Casket: Art of Unkle Pigors, The Ghost Handbook: An Essential Guide to Ghosts, Spirits, and Spectres, and Kenneth Hite's Cliffourd the Big Red God.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Fiesta de las Natitas - La Paz, Bolivia.

THE GORE-MET
A hankering for Henenlotter.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring the return of Anthrax. The Blood Spattered Guide on Sopor Aeternus. Plus, reviews of Super 8 OST, Final Destination 5 OST, Koffin Kats/12 Step Rebels, The Phantom Creeps, Fantomas, Zombie Inc., Mr. Death, The House of Capricorn, and Blood Red Throne.

PLAY DEAD
Reviews Dead Island, The Binding of Isaac, Bloodrayne: Betrayal, Cthulhu Gloom: The Game of Unspeakable Incidents and Squamous Consequences, and Zombie Smarts: Clear Your Mind.

CLASSIC CUT
S.T. Joshi's The Weird Tale (1990).

Issue 116
October 2011

MAN IS AN INSECT
On the 25th anniversary of his defining film, David Cronenberg reflects on the horrors of The Fly.
PLUS: Creature effects designer Chris Walas, and actors Eric Stoltz and John Getz discuss The Fly through to its monstrous sequel; David Hedison and Brett Halsey of the original trilogy recount their respective transformations; and the authors of The Fly at Fifty trace the fascinating life of George Langelaan, the man behind the original story.
by Dave Alexander, James Burrell and Trevor Tuminski

POSTER MONDO
Rue Morgue scours the globe for the most eye-popping horror movie poster art you've probably never seen.
by Tal Zimerman

DIE MUTILATED!
The stars of Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky flashback twenty years to making the ultimate kung fu splatterfest.
PLUS: More crazy kung fu horror films.
by Aaron Von Lupton and Colin Geddes

MELANCHOLY THEATRE
William Basso uses a variety of media to set the stage for the antiquated ghouls and haunted ephemera of his twilight world.
by April Snellings

FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2011
Rue Morgue's 8th annual horror convention in pictures.
photos by Ashlea Wessel, Matthew Marigold, Dave Alexander and Kiva Reardon

UNFINISHED HORROR BUSINESS
Jerry Only evades the cops long enough to fill us in on the Misfits' first original album in nearly thirteen years.
by Tomb Dragomir and Trevor Tuminski

WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER
Rue Morgue discovers new life on the set of The Thing prequel.
by Trevor Tuminski

CARVING OUT A NICHE
The director of ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 and the director of the original My Bloody Valentine talk 30 years of slasher cinema.
by Sean Plummer

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Beyond Brundle.

DREADLINES
Rue Morgue founder in production on first feature; Toronto After Dark Film Festival marks its sixth year; Hammer screenwriter Jimmy Sangster dead at 83.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: The Fly's Flesh Transgressions.

NEEDFUL THINGS
The Fly Bobble-head, Dismember-Me Plush Zombie, Brain Soap in a Jar, and Ossuary Dice.

MEMENTO MORGUE
We remember Halloween.

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Savage, and paranormal investigators on Paranormal Activity 3, plus reviews of Fright Night, Final Destination 5, Shark Night 3D, Texas Killing Fields, Bereavement, Strigoi: The Undead, Creature, The Coffin, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Frat House Massacre, Yellowbrickroad, Dead Cert, Mothman, Exit 33, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Megashark versus Giant Octopus, Creep Creepersin's Frankenstein, Ding Dong Dead and Peeping Blog. Abbreviated Terrors presents Stealin' Home, Hike and Curiosity Kills. Reissues features Guillermo del Toro on Mimic: The Director's Cut, while John W. Bowen and The Gore-met taking on the Retro '80s box set from Camp Motion Pictures. Also featuring reviews of Things (1989), Damnation Alley (1977), MST3K vs. Gamera: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XXI (1991), The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993), Final Exam (1981), Trailers From Hell! Volume Two and Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rites of Dracula/The Werewolf of Washington and Night of the Living Dead/I Eat Your Skin.

CINEMARQUEE
Island of Lost Souls (1932).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Baby (1973), The Unseen (1980) and Bad Boy Bubby (1993).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features The Strange Case of Luther Strode, plus reviews of Dark Axis: Rise of the Overmen #1, The Vault #1 of 3, The Heap #1 of 3, Walter Koenig's Things to Come #1 and Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: John Landis' Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares. Library of the Damned grills Liisa Ladouceur on Encyclopedia Gothica. Plus, reviews of Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980, Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films as Markers of Their Times, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night, In Laymon's Terms, Joseph Nassise's Eyes to See, Gris Grimly's Atrum Secretum: 13 Years of Hidden Truths, Tim Powers' The Bible Repairman and Other Stories and Kendare Blake: Anna Dressed in Blood.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Fort Fright at Old Fort Henry - Kingston, Ontario.

THE GORE-MET
Chewing the fat with H.G. Lewis.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring Ghost, the world's most elusive metal band. The Blood Spattered Guide interviews Ghoul. Plus reviews of Dexter: Season 5 OST, Being Human Series 1 and 2 OST, The Shrine OST, Hammer Legacy: The Frankenstein Collection, Hammer Legacy: The Vampire Collection, Chelsea Wolfe, Midnight Syndicate, Tasseomancy, Vladimirs, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Evil Elvis, Abhor, Alice Cooper, and Morbus Chron.

PLAY DEAD
Reviews Call of Duty - Black Ops: Rezurrection, Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon, Trauma, Granny vs. Zombies and Ghostly Trivia/Undead Trivia.

CLASSIC CUT
Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928).

Issue 115
September 2011

WELCOME TO BLOOD BEACH
Dead Island drops the cartoon gore and humour of today's top zombie gaes for something much more realistic, grisly and terrifying.
PLUS: A look ahead at The Walking Dead game and other upcoming zombie titles.
by Monica S. Kuebler and Dave Alexander

STILL CREEPIN' WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPIN'
Alice Cooper and the original bad dream team reunite for a sequel to his most famous album, Welcome to My Nightmare.
PLUS: Producer Bob Ezrin on creating both the original record and Welcome 2 My Nightmare.
by Aaron Von Lupton and Trevor Tuminski

FANTASIA 2011
Celebrating fifteen years, the FanTasia Film Festival once again lured Rue Morgue to Montreal to digest equal amounts of boundary-pushing cinema, French beer and poutine.
by Stuart F. Andrews, Paul Corupe, Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Michele Galgana, Andy Mauro and Trevor Tuminski

NIGHT TERRORS
Guided by producer Guillermo del Toro, Tory Nixey takes on a remake of the 1970s TV movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
by Phil Brown

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Earn your place.

DREADLINES
New website integrates social networking with the funeral industry; Inside directors unveil Argento-inspired vampire film; Horror prop maker reality show coming to Syfy.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Vicious Villagers.

NEEDFUL THINGS
Rue Morgue Musicskins, Cthulhu Lollipops, 3-D Zombie Fridge Magnets, and Hammer Horror Masterpiece Collection.

MEMENTO MORGUE
Rue Morgue at San Diego Comic Con.

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way to Die, plus reviews of Cowboys & Aliens, Boggy Creek, Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, The Task, Scream of the Banshee, Slime City Massacre, The Violent Kind, Cell 213, I am Virgin, Stripperland!, and The Terminators. Reissues offers up reviews Bloody Birthday (1981), Blood Bath (1966), The Nesting (1981), and Nightmares (1980).

CINEMARQUEE
The Phantom Carriage (1921).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Jason Zinoman's new book Shock Value.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Andrew Foley and Fiona Staples' Done to Death, plus reviews of Crawl to Me #1, Hack/Slash Meets Zombies vs. Cheerleaders #1, Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #2 of 3, Witchdoctor #1 of 4, and Ghost Rider #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: New anthology The Monster's Corner. Library of the Damned mourns the loss of L.A. Banks. Plus, reviews of Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture, The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America, Sell Your Own Damn Movie!, Dan Simmons' Summer of Night, Eric S. Brown's Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods, Awful/Resilient: The Art of Alex Pardee, David Lubar's Attack of the Vampire Weenies, and Bob McLain's Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves: A Zombie Fairy Tale.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Wicklow's Historic Gaol - Wicklow, Ireland.

THE GORE-MET
Brain Dead, and Opstandelsen.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring hybrid indie pop-cabaret band The Real Tuesday Weld. The Blood Spattered Guide talks to Kim Nekroman about the new Nekromanics album, What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell. Plus reviews of Scream OST, Zombie! OST, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume 1 OST, The Channeling, God Module, :Wumpscut:, Vomitoma, Goreaphobia, and Denial Fiend.

PLAY DEAD
Featuring a round-up of creepy iPhone games, plus reviews of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, Dead Block, and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.

CLASSIC CUT
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1981-1989).

Issue 114
August 2011

RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO HELL
With a remake out this month, we go back to the original bloodsucker-plagued suburbs of 1985's Fright Night. Writer/director Tom Holland helps us illustrate how his unlikely hit reinvented the vampire for modern viewers.
PLUS: Stars Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale and Stephen Geoffreys reminisce about the shoot; and Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and Craig Gillespie discuss the new remake.
by April Snellings, Trevor Tuminski, Monica S. Kuebler and Dave Alexander

SMALL TOWN STRANGE
Haven, an unsettling series about a tormented town with deep, dark secrets, is just one of the growing army of genre programs invading your TV.
PLUS: A round-up of this season's new and returning horror shows. >
by Monica S. Kuebler, Trevor Tuminski, Brenton Bentz, Pedro Cabezuelo and Dave Alexander

ANATOMY DIVINE
Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens on morbid art, controversial science and facing his own mortality
by Nadja Sayej
with photos by Dave Alexander

FEAR THE REAPER
In anticipation of this month's Final Destination 5, we've rounded up the franchise's top ten kills to prove that death never takes a holiday.
by Last Chance Lance

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Vampires and VHS.

DREADLINES
Behind the Mask director seeks funding via Facebook, Horror films ignite controversy on both ends of political spectrum, After Dark film set to become a play to die for.

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bar Brutality.

NEEDFUL THINGS
Vamplets, Zombie Blood, Cthulhu Roaster and The Kraken Rum.

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Blood Junkie, Exorcismus, Mongolian Death Worm, Fall Down Dead, Killer Yacht Party, Death Tube, Death Tube 2, and Cam Girl. Reissues features reviews of Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007), The Last Dinosaur (1977), Alien 2: On Earth (1980), and Old Dracula (1975).

CINEMARQUEE
Curse of the Faceless Man (1958).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Bowen calls bullshit on genre deniers.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Xombi, Mystery Men #2 of 5, Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #1 of 3, Fear Itself: Fearsome Four #1 of 4, That Hellbound Train #1 of 3, and The Goon #34.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley. Library of the Damned spills some convention secrets. Plus, reviews Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, Benjamin Radford's Tracking the Chupacabra, Rock 'n' Roll is Dead: Dark Tales Inspired by Music, Gary McMahon's The Concrete Grove, Tom Fletcher's The Leaping, Crazy 4 Cult: Cult Movie Art, Martin Popoff's Black Sabbath FAQ, and Hank Schwaeble's Diabiolical.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Rose Hall Great House - Montego Bay, Jamaica.

THE GORE-MET
Psycho Holocaust, Bunnyman and If A Tree Falls.

AUDIO DROME
Featuring the return of goregrind gods Exhumed. The Blood Spattered Guide discusses the horror of Atari Teenage Riot. Plus reviews Black Sunday OST, Heartless OST, Stake Land OST, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari OST, Hexentanz, Eve Hell & The Razors, The Black Dahlia Murder, Debauchery, and Haemorrhage.

PLAY DEAD
Featuring reviews of F.E.A.R.3., Alice: Madness Returns, Shadows of the Damned and Army of Darkness Defense.

CLASSIC CUT
Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway's Man-Thing (1971)

Issue 113
July 2011

Contents

Issue 112
June 2011

Issue 111
May 2011

Issue 110
April 2011

Issue 109
March 2011

DAYS OF HELL
The makers of Mulberry Street, Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, talk Stake Land, their new coming-of-age journey into the heart of post-apocalyptic vampire America.
PLUS: An interview with co-star Danielle Harris, and more. by Dave Alexander and Marie-Eve Larin
STRANGE WORLDS, SENSUAL CINEMA
Rue Morgue explores some of the most original visions of violence and sexuality from around the world. Interviews with Amer creators Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Gaspar Noe on Enter the Void, and a look at the special editions of Santa Sangre and Embodiment of Evil.
by Shade Rupe, Dave Alexander and Stuart F. Andrews
BODIES R US
Caught without a corpse? Hollywood movie and television prop supplier The Dapper Cadaver is your one-stop shop for all things morbid.
by Greg Jacobs, photos by Efren Herrera
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Mighty Men & Monster Maker.
DREADLINES
Pin director to remake... Pin; Monster mask pioneer Verne Langdon dead at 69; Former Leisure editor heads up new horror line.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Grim Gravediggings.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Rob Zombie Coffee, Zombie Jerky, Skinbag, and Nomskulls Cake Moulds.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Sharktopus, plus reviews of The Rite, Season of the Witch, The Tempest, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, Vanishing on 7th Street, Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre, Hide and Go Kill, Hide and Go Kill 2, and Skull Heads. Reissues features reviews of Vampire Circus (1972), Not of This Earth (1988), The Cyclops (1957) and Puppet Master Collection (1989-2010).
CINEMARQUEE
Diary of a Madman (1963).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Wrath of the Titans: Revenge of Medusa, plus reviews of Infestation #1, Detective Comics #873, Doc Macabre #2 of 3, Let Me In: Crossroads #2 of 4 and Vampirella #2.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Michael Louis Calvillo. Library of the Damned considers the definition of horror. Plus, reviews of Zombie Holocaust: How the Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture, Jonathan Lethem's They Live, Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films 1928 - 1982, Lee Thomas' The German, P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast's Awakened, Sleeping Beauty III - Memorial Photography: The Children, Joe R. Lansdale's Flaming Zeppelins and Dwight Christopher Kemper's The Vampire's Tomb Mystery.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Museum of the Weird - Austin, Texas.
THE GORE-MET
Blood Pigs.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring the old-time death dirges of The Unsettlers. The Blood-Spattered Guide tunes into the sounds of The Tempest. Plus reviews of Carrie OST, Dead Rising 2 OST, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles OST, Fear Incorporated, Electric Wizard, Ghost, iVardensphere, Psycho, and Shroud Eater.
PLAY DEAD
Featuring reviews of Dead Space 2, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Jekyll & Hyde, and FaceEater.
CLASSIC CUT
Coven's Witchcraft: Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls (1969).

Issue 108
January/February 2011

PIETY AND PESTILENCE
Driven by the fever of both the plague and religious fundamentalism, Christopher Smith's Black Death takes an unflinching approach to the dirty, brutal world of medieval horror.
PLUS: The Anatomy of a Plague Doctor, and Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Baltimore: The Plague Ships.
by Monica S. Kuebler, Justin Erickson and Pedro Cabezuelo
KILLER IN ME, KILLER IN YOU
South Korea's most graphic and violent film to date, I Saw the Devil, has made a big, red splash on the international festival circuit. Director Ji-Woon Kim explains that there's a message in the mayhem.
PLUS: A history of Asian serial killer films, and Hong-jin Na's The Chaser.
by Phil Brown and Tom Mes
R.I.P. 2010: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Time to celebrate the smashes and see what Rue Morgue trashes in our annual overview of the past year in horror.
by Staff
THE 2011 HORROR CONVENTION AND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Start saving those vacation days...
by Staff
DIRTY DEEDS DONE SIX FEET DEEP
An Austrian art collective is granting the chance to take your sex life to the next level - underground!
by Nadja Sayej
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
WTF is "elevated genre"?
DREADLINES
Australian police raid film festival director's house over L.A. Zombie; Paris-set horror anthology to gather international directors; Coscarelli returns with adaptation of John Dies at the End.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Mutilated Musicians.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Nosferatu Statue, Zombie Invasion Hoodie, Grab A Scab, Plague Doctor Figurine.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Skyline, Best Worst Movie, RoboGeisha, And Soon the Darkness, The Lost Tribe, Altitude, Red Scream Vampyres, Silent Scream and Scream Dream. Plus! It's a Dead World After All as we round up zombie movies from around the globe: reviews of The Horde, Colin and Aaah! Zombies. Reissues features reviews of The Magician (1958) Blu-ray, The Unholy Three (1925) DVD, Gamera: Guardian of the Universe/Attack of the Legion (1995-96) Blu-ray, My Mom's a Werewolf (1989) DVD and The Alien Anthology (1979-1997) Blu-ray.
CINEMARQUEE
The Hypnotic Eye (1960).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Dirty Harry's Scorpio (1971).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths and Legends, plus reviews of Zombies vs. Cheerleaders #2, Abattoir #1 of 6, Dungeons and Dragons #1, Warlord of Mars #1 and Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula #1.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Zombie anthology cage match. Library of the Damned sets predictions for 2011. Plus, reviews of Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career; Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars; Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen; Tesseracts 14; Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010; Paul Braus' The Creature's Curse; Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film; and Robert Aickman's Sub Rosa.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
The Museum of Mourning Art - Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
THE GORE-MET
Sella Turcica (2010).
AUDIO DROME
Featuring The Young Werewolves. The Blood-Spattered Guide investigates a curious collection from Danny Elfman. Plus reviews of Alien Resurrection OST, Giallo OST, Mirrors 2 OST, Zombie Surf Camp, The Church of Abject Sorrow, The von Drats, Acid Witch, Athorn and Yogsothery - Gate 1: Chaosmogonic Rituals of Fear.
PLAY DEAD
Featuring reviews of Dead Space 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Splatterhouse and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
CLASSIC CUT
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."

Issue 107
December 2010

BAD TIDINGS
Finland's Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale taps into the grim lineage of Santa Claus to deliver a Yuletide yarn for horror fans.
PLUS: Krampus and the Dutch slasher movie Sint.
by Trevor Tuminski, Jan Doense, James King and Alice Jaroschek
DAMNATION AND ALCHEMY
Guillermo del Toro's debut feature, Cronos. To celebrate, the filmmaker talks about re-imagining vampires, building infernal machines and being exorcised as a child.
PLUS: The latest news on del Toro's many film projects.
by Phil Brown and Stuart F. Andrews
STROKES OF MIDNIGHT
A new art book traces the legacy of Hammer's vibrant poster graphics.
by Sean Plummer
AXES AND EYEBALLS
The Weird World of Eerie Publications opens the latest chapter on horror comics' grisly history.
PLUS: The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read.
by April Snellings and Dave Alexander
CEREMONIA SATANICA
Exclusive photos from Rue Morgue's annual Halloween birthday bash.
by Ashlea Wessel
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Hood for the holidays.
DREADLINES
Famed Hammer director Roy Ward Baker dead at age 93; Jamie Foxx shepherding new multi-ethnic horror anthology show; Until the Light Takes Us duo mounting a horror feature.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Diminutive Devilspawn.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Elvira Action Figure, Zombie T-shirt, Catacomb Boxers, 2011 Zombie Pinup Planner.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Black Swan, Paranormal Activity 2, Saw 3D, My Soul to Take, Giallo, Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl, Lost Boys: The Thirst, Lake Placid 3, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives, Terror Overload, Vindication and Aegri Somnia. Blood on a Budget tackles The Resurrection Game and Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time! Reissues features reviews of Maniac: 30th Anniversary Edition (1980) Blu-ray, The Blair Witch Project (1999) Blu-ray, The Terror Within (1989)/Dead Space (1990), Crucible of Terror (1971), Curtains (1983) and Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)/Gamera vs. Jiger (1970).
CINEMARQUEE
Sh! The Octopus (1937).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Incredible Melting Man (1977).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Harbor Moon, plus reviews of Night of the Living Dead #1, Angel vs. Frankenstein II, Edge of Doom #1, X-men vs. Vampires #1 and Tomb of Terror #1.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Bob Fingerman's Pariah. Library of the Damned flogs an undead horse. Plus, reviews of Touchstones of Gothic Horror: A Film Genealogy of Eleven Motifs and Images, When There's No More Room in Hell: The Sociology of the Living Dead, Asian Horror, Riding the Bullet: Deluxe Special Edition Double, Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, David Saunders' H.J. Ward, Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Allyson Bird's Wine and Rank Poison.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
International Cryptozoology Museum - Portland, Maine.
THE GORE-MET
S&Man (2006).
AUDIO DROME
Featuring cremation vinyl. The Blood-Spattered Guide tunes into Voltaire's Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids. Plus reviews of Drammi Gotici (Gothic Dreams) OST, The Horde OST, The Vampire Diaries OST, Kreeps, Cryptids, October Rising, Thrall, Sargeist, and Stench.
PLAY DEAD
Featuring reviews of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Space: Ignition.
CLASSIC CUT
John Updike and Edward Gorey's The Twelve Terrors of Christmas.

Issue 106
November 2010

THE ART OF ATROCITY
A new wave of rage-fuelled cinema is rearing its head in Serbia. Ultra-violent, explicit and psychologically crushing, one movie in particular has left a trail of devastation in its wake. Steel yourself for A Serbian Film.
PLUS: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and a guide to Serbian horror cinema.
by Dejan Ognjanovic
TOGETHER IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS
Romantic entanglements meet tentacled mayhem in Gareth Edward's epic indie creature feature Monsters.
by Sean Plummer
ONLY WOMEN BLEED
The only feminist slasher series gets the special edition treatment with the release of The Slumber Party Massacre Collection. We track down the women behind the "Ultimate Driller Killer Thrillers."
by April Snellings
HORROR COMES TO HOGTOWN
The 2010 Toronto International Film Festival previewed some of the most anticipated and under-the-radar genre movies. Adjust your anticipation accordingly, fright fans...
by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Todd Brown, Liisa Ladouceur and Trevor Tuminski
MY HORROR HAREM
Dani Filth celebrates Cradle of Filth's new album - based on the demoness Lilith - by rounding up his top ten favourite women in horror movies.
by Dani Filth and Trevor Tuminski
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
On the offensive.
DREADLINES
The Thing prequel aims to replicate world of original film; The Dark Tower saga set to return in multiple formats; FX legend Greg Nicotero adds 'director' to resume.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Diminutive Devilspawn.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Necronomicox, Proton Pack Backpack, Monster Kookies Jewellery, Zombie Sock Monkeys.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre puts Fangoria's FrightFest imprint to the test. Plus reviews of Hatchet II, Let Me In, Devil, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Case 39, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, After.Life, Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash, Bikini Bloodbath Christmas and Bikini Bloodbath on Ice. Reissues features Nobuhiko Obayashi's House and Don Sharp's Psychomania, plus reviews of The Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1959) Blu-ray, Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)/Gamera vs. Viras (1968), King Kong (1933) Blu-ray and Mad Ron's Prevues From Hell (1987).
CINEMARQUEE
The Soul of a Monster (1944).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Pit (1981).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Nosferatu, plus reviews of Weird War Tales #1, The Scourge #1, Eeek!, It! The Terror from Beyond Space #3 and Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer and The Great Puppet Theater.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: J.W. Ocker's The New England Grimpendium. Library of the Damned takes on Banned Books Week. Plus, reviews of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series, Horror Movie Freak, Scary Science: 25 Creepy Experiments, Reggie Oliver's Dramas From the Depths, F.G. Cottam's Dark Echo, Michael Marano's Stories from the Plague Years, David Moody's Autumn and The Art of Drew Struzan.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Whitby Dracula Walk - Whitby, England.
THE GORE-MET
The Law and Inner Depravity.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring Pennsylvanian horror screamo band Motionless in White. The Blood-Spattered Guide spotlights tomandandy, composers for Resident Evil: Afterlife. Plus reviews of Resident Evil: Afterlife OST, The Wicker Man (1973) OST, Prelude to a Nightmare, Phantom 13, Mad Tea Party, Gravewurm, Diskreet, Nocturnal Blood and GWAR.
PLAY DEAD
Featuring Saw II: Flesh & Blood, plus reviews of Twisted Lands: Shadow Town and Mage: The Awakening.
CLASSIC CUT
The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.

Issue 105
October 2010

WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES
Fifty years ago Marion met Norman at the Bates Motel and the modern horror film was born. Rue Morgue's panel of experts celebrates the lunatic legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. Featuring Wes Craven, assistant director Hilton Green, and authors Stephen Rebello and David Thomson.
PLUS: A look at Bernard Herrmann's score, a new documentary on the film, sequel spotlights, and more!
by Aaron Von Lupton, Mark R. Hasan, James Burrell, Stuart F. Andrews, Joseph O'Brien and John W. Bowen
50 REASONS TO LOVE HORROR COMICS
From pre-Code grue to today's top purveyors of terror, read about the scariest, goriest, strangest and most original stories, series, characters, things and even places on the panelled page.
PLUS: Interviews with Bernie Wrightson, Dick Ayers, Eric Powell, Mike Carey, and more!
by Dave Alexander, Pedro Cabezuelo, Paul Corupe, Monica S. Kuebler and April Snellings
HE IS LEGION: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY REVISITS THE EXORCIST
The film often regarded as the scariest movie ever made arrives on Blu-ray. The man who started it all takes stock of its lasting legacy.
PLUS: Cinematographer Owen Roizman on crafting the look of evil. by John W. Bowen and Stacie Ponder
PLAYING WITH MADNESS
Derek Riggs, creator of Iron Maiden's infamous Eddie mascot, reflects on a career forged in metal.
by Ashley Thorpe
FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2010
Pics from Rue Morgue's 7th annual horror convention.
Photos by Ashlea Wessel, Matthew Marigold, Robert "Nix" Nixon and James Burrell
SKIN CITY
Zombie mayhem heads to Vegas in Dead Rising 2.
by Monica S. Kuebler
GHOULISH GRINS
The history of the jack-o'-lantern.
by Last Chance Lance
THROUGH THE CREAKING DOOR
Glass Eye Pix resurrects the dark audio drama for the digital age with Tales From Beyond the Pale.
by Jason Pichonsky
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
In the shower with Psycho.
DREADLINES
Sam Raimi brings Zombie Roadkill to the web; Teen filmmaker enlists Machete talent for Twilight spoof; Australian horror film being presold one frame at a time.
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Psycho's Most Scarring Scenes.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Psycho House, Zombie Wrapping Paper, Blood Bath Shower Gel and Team Sleep Monsters.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features a look back at the Saw franchise, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and new documentary The Aurora Monsters - The Model Craze That Gripped the World, plus reviews of Piranha 3D, Night of the Demons, Buried, Sea of Dust, Dorian Gray, Dark and Stormy Night, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Ghost Hunters International, Squeal, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Madeline's Halloween and Other Spooky Tales, Parasomnia, Assault of the Sasquatch, The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot, Inbred Redneck Vampires, I Spit Chew on Your Grave and Terror at Blood Fart Lake. Blood on a Budget spotlights Legion of Terror and Cruel. And Reissues features Dark Night of the Scarecrow, plus reviews of Cannibal Girls (1973), Grindhouse (2007) Blu-ray, The Evil (1978) and Martin (1977) Blu-ray.
CINEMARQUEE
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
Reptilicus (1961).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features American Vampire, plus reviews of Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #1, A Very Zombie Summer, King #1, Ides of Blood #1, and Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Rob Sacchetto's Zombiewood Weekly. Library of the Damned investigates the "zombie romance" of Hungry for Your Love. Plus, reviews of The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead, He Is Legend: An Anthology Honoring Richard Matheson, Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Fall, Haunted Legends, Jonathan Cape's Haunted Air, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland: Weirdo Halloween and So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Canada's Wonderland Halloween Haunt - Toronto, Canada
THE GORE-MET
Menu: I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
AUDIO DROME
Featuring the Halloween carols of Kristen Lawrence. The Blood-Spattered Guide investigates the Haunted Mansion theme song. Plus reviews of Piranha 3D OST, Predators OST, The Dead Matter OST, Earth vs. The Spider (1958) OST, Vampires Suck OST, Dax Riggs, The Other, The Birthday Massacre, The Creepshow, Psycho Charger, Psyche, Interment, Tombstones, and The Devil Wears Prada
PLAY DEAD
Featuring a round-up of horror games on Facebook, plus reviews of Clash of the Titans, Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box and The Serial Killer Trivia Game.
CLASSIC CUT
Robin Wood's Hitchcock's Films.

Issue 104
September 2010

DEAD AIR
Frank Darabont wants to rot your brain with his TV take on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, the greatest zombie comic of all time.
PLUS: Kirkman on his original comic book series and the TV adaptation, and quotes from the cast and crew.
by Dave Alexander and April Snellings
THE MEAT GENERATION
Fantagraphics' Four Color Fear unearths the goriest, most perverse and offensive terror tales responsible for ushering in the dreaded Comics Code Authority.
by April Snellings
FANTASIA
Rue Morgue travels to Montreal for the fest that showcases the most cutting edge, bizarre and often dangerous international genre films.
PLUS: A look at the Subversive Serbia program and short film highlights from Small Gauge Trauma.
by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Michele Galgana, Monica S. Kuebler, Andy Mauro, Jessa Sobczuk and Trevor Tuminski
THE RHYTHM OF WORLD'S END
Killing Joke original lineup reforms for a gloomy new offering to the audio gods.
by Trevor Tuminski
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
The seduction of the not-so innocent.
DREADLINES
Upcoming opera to expand upon 'Blood Countess' legend; The Mistress of the Dark returns to TV this fall; Puppets, drag and blood in store for Carrie stage adaptation
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Nasty Nazis.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Coffin Couches, Sourpuss Diaper Bag, Human Tooth Necklace and Bat Boy Figure
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D and vampire comedy Suck, plus reviews of Predators, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue, The Death of Alice Blue, Durham County Season 2, Sutures, Puppetmaster: Axis of Evil, A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire, The Uninvited, Don't Look Up, The Brotherhood V: Alumni, House of Usher, and The Pit & the Pendulum. Abbreviated Terrors spotlights Eyes Beyond, Dracula's Daughters vs. The Space Brains, and Remote. And Reissues reviews The Evil Dead (1981) Blu-ray, Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition (1987) Blu-ray, Submission of a Woman (1992), and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Blu-ray.
CINEMARQUEE
A Bucket of Blood (1959).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Horror Films of Joan Crawford.
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Boneyard Vol. 7, plus reviews of The Death of Dracula #1, Sci-fi and Fantasy Illustrated: Red Banned, True Blood #1, The X-Files/30 Days of Night #1, and Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper #1.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: PS Publishing. Library of the Damned celebrates Yvonne Navarro's "Wicked Willow" Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-in novel trilogy. Plus, reviews of Dario Argento, Top 100 Horror Movies, Confessions of a Scream Queen, William Harms' Dead or Alive, Craig Davidson's Sarah Court, Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine Vol. 2, James J. Murphy III's The Nursing Home, and Barbara Wade Rose's The Priest, The Witch & The Poltergeist.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
The Ghosts of Times Square Tour - New York City, New York
THE GORE-MET
Menu: ...And Then I Helped
AUDIO DROME
Featuring a look at witch house. The Blood-Spattered Guide reviews Alice Cooper's Theatre of Death tour. Plus reviews of The Beast Within OST (1981), Night Child/Evil Eye/Voices From Beyond OST, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse OST, Murderdolls, Mad Sin, The Mission Creeps, Lordi, The Last Felony, and Profanatica.
PLAY DEAD
N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights, Stabstab, and Soul of Darkness.
CLASSIC CUT
Verne Langdon's Monster Masks

The Walking Dead

Issue 103
August 2010

MALICIOUS FISHES
Joe Dante schools us on Piranha, a Jaws rip-off packed to the gills with blood, boobs, and other low-budget mayhem from the Roger Corman school of exploitation filmmaking.
PLUS: Alexandre Aja on Piranha 3D, and Roger Corman discusses the controversial Humanoids from the Deep.
by Phil Brown and John W. Bowen
CONVULSIVE BEAUTY
Nightmares in Decay, a new book celebrating macabre artist Harry Clarke, signals a renewed interest in turn-of-the-century genre artwork.
PLUS: The most provocative periodicals of the era.
by Chris Jozefowicz
KING OF THE CARDBOARD CASTLE
A new documentary celebrates the world's most unstoppable horror host, Count Gore de Vol.
PLUS: Six more contemporary horror hosts.
by Eric Veillette and Trevor Tuminski
LURID BE THY NAME
Astro Zombies, Blood Orgies and Corpse Grinders - Ted V. Mikels reflects on six decades of low-budget sensational cinema.
by Dave Alexander
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
A salute to poster artists.
DREADLINES
Scholars gather at Oxford for Fear, Horror and Terror; Historic home of Hammer classics set to become housing; Genre scholar Everett Franklin Bleiler remembered
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Resurrected Water Rotters.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Arachnoid Guitar, Immortal Coffee, Dia De Los Muertos Jewellery, and Sarah Legault Dolls.
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Open House, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Burning Bright, Southern Gothic, Neowolf, The Eclipse, Bloody Mary, Dead Mary, and Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet. Blood on a Budget spotlights Pop Punk Zombies and Horrid. And Reissues reviews Gamera vs. Barugon (1966), Horror Hospital (1973), The Best of Trailers from Hell Volume 1, and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).
CINEMARQUEE
Thriller: "The Incredible Doktor Markesan" (1945).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Kindred (1987).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Dark Shadows: The Complete Series Volume 1, plus reviews of Dracula #1 of 4, Classic Red Sonja Re-mastered #1, Mystery Society #1, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac #1 of 4, and Nanny and Hank #1 of 4.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Dark Regions Press' New Voices of Horror anthology series. Library of the Damned says farewell to Necro Publications. Plus, reviews of Horror Film Aesthetics: Creating the Visual Language of Fear, Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Handling the Undead, Nate Kenyon's Sparrow Rock, Adam Nevill's Apartment 16, Nate Southard's He Stepped Through, Nick Arnold's Evil Inventions, and John Skipp and Craig Spector's The Bridge.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
The Amsterdam Ghost Walk - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
THE GORE-MET
Menu: Slasher (2007) and Break (2009)
AUDIO DROME
Featuring the doom metal of The Body. The Blood-Spattered Guide spotlights Adult.'s horror shorts. Plus reviews of Theater of Blood (OST), Dead Like Me (OST), A Primitive Evolution, Haunted George, Those Poor Bastards, Sybreed, Grave, Ramesses, and Scaremaker.
PLAY DEAD
Naughty Bear, A Vampire's Romance: Paris Stories, and I'm Not Alone.
CLASSIC CUT
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

Piranha 3D

Issue 102
July 2010

WHERE DARKNESS LIVES: The creators of [REC] 2 shine a light on one of the most terrifying examples of the New Spanish Horror film. PLUS: An interview with The New Daughter director Luis Berdejo, the films of Jaume Belaguero and Paco Plaza, and more! by Dave Alexander, Rodrigo Gudino and Trevor Tuminski.
GRIM GRAPPLERS: From The French Angel to The Undertaker, Rue Morgue squares off against the killer tag team of horror and wrestling. PLUS: An interview with Gangrel, the vampire of the squared circle, and the Top 5 Wrestler Smackdowns in Horror Movies. Dan Murphy, Aaron Von Lupton and Trevor Tuminski.
THE CANVAS CANNOT HOLD THEM: Award-winning artist Daniel Horne built an unlikely career on classic creature oil paintings, but his monsters won't be chained to just one medium. by Gary Pullin.
GLOOMY ROOMIES: BBC TV series Being Human asks what would happen if a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost shacked up in a flat in Bristol. by Claire Horsnell.
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND: Thrill of the hunt.
DREADLINES: Fantasia 2010 Spotlights Stuart Gordon, Ken Russell and Extreme Serbia; New Festival Spotlight Horror Shorts by Women; Toxie Remake and Sequel Among New Troma Ventures.
THE CORONER'S REPORT: Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Perverse Penetrations.
NEEDFUL THINGS: Aunt Tilly. Pan's Labyrinth Busts, Barnabas Collins Doll, and Skeleton Doc Martens.
CINEMACABRE: CineMacabre features suburban siege story Salvage, and reviews of Splice, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, Dark Nature, Hard Ride to Hell, The Shadow Within, Women's Studies, Cockhammer, Nixon and Hogan Smoke Christmas and Colonel Kill Motherfuckers. Abbreviated Terrors reviews The Horror of our Love: A Short Film, Massacrator and Seance. And reissues spotlights Roger Corman's Cult Classics Galaxy of Terror (1981) and Forbidden World (1982), with reviews of City of the Living Dead Special Edition (1980), Death Race 2000 (1975), Euro Fantastico: The Black Cobra (1963)/No Survivors Please (1964) and Evil Toons (1992).
CINEMARQUEE: The Monster and the Ape (1945).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT: Death Spa (1988).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS: Features Poultrygeist: Return of the Chicken Dead, plus reviews of Sweet Tooth Volume 1 TPB, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Bram Stoker's Death Ship #1, The Claw & Fang #1 and Batman Confidential #44.
THE NINTH CIRCLE: Spotlight: More Stories from the Twilight Zone, featuring an interview with editor Carol Serling. Library of the Damned presents a round-up of must-read blogs by genre authors. Plus, reviews of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema: A Filmography of Their 22 Collaborations, The Bitten Word, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zombies, Gemma Files' A Book of Tongues, R.B. Russell's Literary Remains, Mark Wheaton's Four Nails in the Coffin, Real Zombies, The Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse and Quentin S. Crisp's "Remember You're a One-Ball."
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR: Beyond Belief: The Curious Collection of Professor Rufus Excalibur Bell - Higgins Armory Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts.
THE GORE-MET: Menu: 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams.
AUDIO DROME: Featuring Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers. Blood Spattered Guide revisits Concrete Blonde's Bloodletting. Plus reviews of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) OST, True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series Volume 2 OST, Harley Poe, The Brains, Balzac, Sabbath Assembly, Ov Hell, Hooded Menace and Rammer.
PLAY DEAD: Alan Wake, Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper and Zombie Infection.
CLASSIC CUT: Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla"

Issue 101
June 2010

HEART OF THE DEVIL
Rue Morgue travels to Los Angeles for an exclusive interview and photo shoot with Glenn Danzig. With a new album and other projects in the works, he exorcizes any rumours of retirement. PLUS: The demonic muscle-bound art of Danzig collaborator Simon Bisley, a review of Deth Red Sabaoth, and more! by Trevor Tuminski, Gabrielle Gieselman and Dave Alexander
ONCE BITTEN
Alan Ball isn't much of a vampire fan, but that didn't stop him from bringing blood lust to the masses. Meet the unlikely creator of True Blood.
PLUS: Michelle Forbes on being the big bad maenad in Season Two, author Charlaine Harris' latest entry in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, and more! by Monica S. Kuebler and Justin Humphreys
AT HOME WITH THE DEAD
George A. Romero invites us over for a face-to-face talk about his unlikely new zombie western, Survival of the Dead. by Stuart F. Andrews
THE RHYTHM OF FEAR
Australian dance troupe splintergroup stages a paranoid nightmare in the outback. by Michael Mitchell and Monica S. Kuebler
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Devil music.
DREADLINES
John Carpenter and Steve Niles team up for F.E.A.R. 3; Interactive art project puts you in the zombie apocalypse; Walking Dead TV series goes into production, and more!
THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six - Face Masks.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Karloff Busts, Remote-Controlled Bigfoot, Dead Tired Pillowcases, Undead Art
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Descent 2, Transylmania, Haunted Echoes, Life Blood, Cold Storage, Bigfoot, Penance, Abduction and Hospitality. Blood on a Budget reviews Zombie Dearest and The Landlord. And reissues reviews The Sadist with the Red Teeth (1971)/Forbidden Paris (1969), Two Evil Eyes (1990), House of the Long Shadows (1983) and The Masters of Science Fiction (2007).
CINEMARQUEE
Beginning of the End (1957).
BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The World Beyond (1978).
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Kolchak: Lovecraftian Damnation, plus reviews of Kill Shakespeare #1, Marvel Zombies #1 of 5, We Will Bury You #2, Random Acts of Violence and Grim Fairy Tales #5.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Philip Nutman's Cities of Night. Library of the Damned takes a look at the importance of young adult horror. Plus, reviews of Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon, Silver Scream Volume Two: 40 Classic Horror Movies 1941-1951, David Moody's Dog Blood, Weston Ochse's Empire of Salt, Joey Comeau's One Bloody Thing After Another, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies: Compendium Monstrum, Mira Grant's Feed and Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into.
TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
The Dublin Ghost Bus - Dublin, Ireland
THE GORE-MET
Menu: Specialite du chef and The Greatest American Snuff Film.
AUDIO DROME
Featuring Dutch retro-rock occult band The Devil's Blood. Blood Spattered Guide says R.I.P. to Peter Steele. Plus reviews of Clash of the Titans (2010) OST, Shiver OST, The Nothing Like Vaudeville Show OST, Prophecy OST, Diemonsterdie, Others, Soulfly, Wormfood and Kerasphorus.
PLAY DEAD
Monster Hunter Tri, Zombie Driver: Slaughter and N.Y. Zombies.
CLASSIC CUT
Danzig's Danzig II: Lucifuge.

Issue 100
May 2010

ROYAL BLOOD: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPER LEE
To celebrate our 100th issue, Rue Morgue proudly presents the ongoing story of the genre's greatest living legend and the studio that made him an icon.
Plus: Interviews with Hammer star Ingrid Pitt, the man who revived the company, Hammer 101, and more!
by James Burrell, Sean Plummer, Trevor Tuminski and Paul Corupe

13 YEARS OF FEAR
Rue Morgue writers consult experts and luminaries for an in-depth look at how the genre has changed since we began publishing in 1997, and where it's headed...
by Rue Morgue Staff

THE NIGHTMARE GALLERY
We commissioned sixteen of the best dark artists out there to each create an original piece that exemplifies a personal nightmare, and tell us why the work haunts them. The results will scare you too.
curated by Gary Pullin

HYMNS FROM THE HOUSE OF HORROR
Dive into Rue Morgue Radio's first ever free downloadable terror tunes compilation, with a spotlight on all seventeen of the rare, classic, remixed and world premiere tracks! Hear what the bands themselves have to say about their caustic cuts.
by Trevor Tuminski, Tomb Dragomir and Dave Alexander

GATHER 'ROUND, KIDDIES
During the 1990s, R.L. Stine's creepy children's books sold millions of copies. The often reclusive, incredibly prolific author tells his own spooky story.
by Phil Brown

iSCARES
Rue Morgue downloads the top ten iPhone apps for horror fans.
by MARIE- eVE LARIN

DEPARTMENTS:

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
What's in a number?

DREADLINES
Indian film promoters take cues from William Castle; Kinetik Fest aims to make Montreal top destination for industrial music fans; New Mexico to host horror film boot camp, and more!

THE CORONER'S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Christopher Lee Dracula Deaths

NEEDFUL THINGS
Hammer Poster Reprints, Hellbent for Cooking, Gruesome Gift Baskets, Murder Ink Notepad

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features Best Worst Movie, plus reviews of Clash of the Titans. The Day of the Triffids, Freeway Killer, Tony, The Real Wolfman, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Monster Warriors, Lo, The Caretaker, Ravage the Scream Queen, Breaking Her Will and Night of the Pumpkin. Abbreviated Terrors reviews Cheerbleeders, Night of the Hell Hamsters and 2:22. And reissues features Arrow Video's new Dario Argento DVDs, plus reviews Girly (1970), Honeymoon of Horror (1964), Goodbye Gemini (1970) and Knife of Ice (1972).

CINEMARQUEE
Gamera (1965).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Day of the Dead: Desertion, plus reviews of American Vampire #1, The Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange #1, Zombies Vs. Robots Aventure #1, The Ghoul #3 and Greek Street Volume 1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Tom Jokinen's funeral industry tell-all Curtains. Library of the Damned presents a World Horror Con 2010 recap. Plus, reviews of A Sci-fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers, The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction, Marie Corelli's Vendetta, Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Alexandra Sokoloff's Book of Shadows, Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong, Neil Cross' Burial and The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
Musee Fragonard D'Alfort - Paris, France

THE GORE-MET
Menu: Long Pigs (2007) and La petite mort: Die Nasty (2009).

AUDIO DROME
Featuring experimental metal outfit Hobgoblin. Blood Spattered Guide features The Ghost. Plus reviews of The Crazies (2010) OST, Grace OST, The Wolfman OST, Robe., Rodentum: The Best of Dark Roots Music Volume IV, :Wumpscut:, Darkthrone, Psycho, The Vision Bleak, Lair of the Minotaur, Barren Earth, Omega Lithium, Unholy Grave, and Abscess.

PLAY DEAD
Metro 2033, Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon and Deadly Premonition.

CLASSIC CUT
Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein.

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