#233 God-Fearing Yuletide Issue

Frailty | Haunted Holiday Gift Guide | Hammer of the Witches

FEATURES

Bill Paxton’s Frailty turns 25: a portrait of righteous violence that has never felt more current, and a haunting testament to the director he was only beginning to become. Plus: How a single note from James Cameron turned Frailty inside out, and a look at Paolo Strippoli’s The Holy Boy.

’Tis the season to be sinister. Rue Morgue kicks off a new Xmas tradition with our Haunted Holiday Gift Guide, a list of books, music, games and collectibles too twisted to regift.

WNUF Halloween Special made him a cult filmmaker. Now Chris LaMartina rounds up Grady Hendrix, Peaches Christ and Clay McLeod Chapman for a $40K, four-day bottle movie that cements him as Baltimore’s indie horror maestro.

Long before the first horror novel, a Dominican inquisitor compiled the Malleus Maleficarum, a manual of witches, demons and bodily terror that turned fear into doctrine… and doctrine into horror.

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Buon Natale, matti miel!

POST-MORTEM
Letters from fans, readers, and weirdos

THE CORONER’S REPORT
Weird Stats & Morbid Facts, Expired Minds, Shadowland, and more!

NEEDFUL THINGS
Strange trinkets from our bazaar of the bizarre

CINEMACABRE
The latest films, featuring Michael Gabriele’s Unholy Night

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Turkey Shoot

BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Remembering the Reggie Bannister 

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
ODDITY: Knit of the Living Dead

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Patrick Horvath and Tyler Crook’s Archie in Hell

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Author Eric LaRocca

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Distorted Demons of Claire Morrissey

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: In silvis sum, ergo sum

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: Vlad in Tears’ Undead

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Graveyard Keeper II and Welcome to Elderfield

VS
DEBATE: Which horror movie twist holds up best on a rewatch?