RUE MORGUE

Launched in 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño, RUE MORGUE is the world’s leading horror in culture and entertainment brand, spearheaded by its multiple award-winning magazine, RUE MORGUE and RUE MORGUE DIGITAL; RUE MORGUE TV specialty horror channel; RUE MORGUE LIBRARY book series; RUE MORGUE PRESENTS FRIGHTMARE IN THE FALLS horror expo and RUE MORGUE PRESENTS CINEMACABRE MOVIE NIGHTS monthly film series.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

RUE MORGUE

POST-MORTEM

WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS • ISSUE #225

THE ORPHAN WITH A SECRET

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… • Shauna Macdonald, “Sarah Carter” from The Descent (2005)

NEEDFUL THINGS

HANDMADE HORRORS • DARK AND DREARY ARTIFACTS BY KRISTINA CULLEN

CRYPTIC COLLECTIBLES • FRIGHT NIGHT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 7-INCH SINGLE

THE REVENGE OF ALICE COOPER • BEFORE BECOMING A SHOCK ROCK SUPERSTAR, ALICE COOPER WAS A BAND RENOWNED FOR BLASTING TABOOS WITH ITS FUSION OF GLAM ROCK AND OVER-THE-TOP HORROR THEATRICS. NOW, AFTER FIVE LONG DECADES, THE ORIGINAL LINEUP REUNITES FOR A TRIUMPHANT RETURN

SHADOW OF ALICE COOPER • LEGENDARY PRODUCER BOB EZRIN RETURNS TO THE SHOCK ROCK GROUP HE HAD A HAND IN CREATING

GHOSTLY GRANDMASTERS • ON THE OCCASION OF HIS UPCOMING BOOK, SPECTRAL LIGHTS, RUE MORGUE’S DEJAN OGNJANOVIĆ GIVES A SHORT MASTERCLASS ON THE MASTERS OF THE ENGLISH GHOST STORY

GHOSTLY REFLECTIONS • LEGENDARY HORROR FICTION WRITER RAMSEY CAMPBELL EXPLAINS WHY MORE READERS SHOULD SEEK OUT THE CLASSIC GHOST STORIES OF ENGLAND’S PAST

TOXIE’S TRIUMPH • LEGENDARY PICTURES, CREATORS OF A BIG-BUDGET MONSTERVERSE POPULATED BY A TRIO OF GODZILLA FILMS AND THE JURASSIC WORLD FRANCHISE, FLEXES ITS MIGHTY MUSCLE TO REBOOT A 40-YEAR-OLD SUPERHERO BLACK COMEDY SPLATTERFEST

FEAR IS REAL • A COSMIC EVENT THAT TURNS CISGENDER HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE INTO BLOODTHIRSTY RAGE ZOMBIES; A GAY CONVERSION CAMP WHERE DEMON POSSESSION BOLSTERS ITS ONE-HUNDRED-PERCENT EFFECTIVENESS RATE… WELCOME TO THE MAD WORLD OF CHUCK TINGLE

CINEMACABRE • FILM + DVD + REISSUES

OVERLOOKED, FORGOTTEN AND DISMISSED • THIS ISSUE: LANCE CALLS IN THE CANNIBALS!

BITE-SIZED FRIGHTS FOR SMALL APPETITES • ON THE SLAB: GOING FOR GROSS

RETURN TO ABADDON • AS THE HELL HOUSE LLC FRANCHISE WRAPS UP WITH ITS FIFTH FILM, RUE MORGUE SPEAKS TO JOE BANDELLI, PRODUCER AND PART-TIME CLOWN

REISSUED & REANIMATED

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT • The ’Noids to Avoid

GHOUL NEXT DOOR • AN UNCANNY COTERIE CONFESSIONS OF A CREEPY DOLL COLLECTOR

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

QUICK CUTS

THE NINTH CIRCLE BOOKS

DANTE’S PICK

STILL POSSESSED • A NEW STUDY OF ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI’S POSSESSION OFFERS AN EMOTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON A FASCINATING CULT HORROR FILM

LIBRARY OF THE DAMNED • HEY NANCY, I’LL MISS YOU

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS • A DUMPSTER DIVE INTO HORRORS’S ODDS & CURIOS

AUDIO DROME

PODCASTS FROM BEYOND

A GARDEN STATE GOTHIC

PLAY DEAD • NOW PLAYING > GHOST FREQUENCY, MOROI

ARE GHOST STORIES BETTER SUITED TO FICTION OR FILM? • THE BOOK-VS-MOVIE DEBATE HAS BEEN A STANDBY AMONG HORROR FANS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL. THIS ISSUE, WE HOPE TO LAY THE ARGUMENT TO REST ONCE AND FOR ALL BY INVITING TWO OF OUR WRITERS TO ENTER THE RING AND DUKE IT OUT!