#202 Sep/Oct 2021 Halloween Special Issue

  With cover art by JOHN PEARSON!

Rue Morgue ventures into the dark woods to unearth the ROOTS OF FOLK HORROR with filmmaker ROBERT EGGERS (The Witch), writer/producer KIER-LA JANISSE (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched) and author ANDY PACIOREK (Spirits of the Season), in anticipation of the upcoming release of ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR massive box set. Also includes SERBIAN VAMPIRES, composer TIMOTHY FIFE on his score for the new audio CD of ARTHUR MACHEN's seminal folk horror story THE WHITE PEOPLE, and a treasure trove of FORGOTTEN FOLK HORROR MOVIES!

Plus!

30 THRILLING THREEQUELS you need to see and the best threequels in 3D!

Rue Morgue revisits the Mothers of the MEXICAN GOTHIC who, over half a century ago in Latin America, gave rise to a mini age of wailing women and vampire queens and some of the greatest feminist horror movies you’ve never seen. Plus! Universal monsters re-imagined as… The Mexican Monsters!

CHUCKY comes out in a new series! A few killer words with kil ler doll creator Don Mancini.

Meet MICHELINE PITT and LYNH HAAGA, two innovative style mavens who are closing the gap between fan fashion and goth glamour with their boutique label LA FEMME EN NOIR.  

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Hyper reality

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 newest films and reissues, featuring Yasuhiko Shimizu’s Cube remake

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Frightening 4K

BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: The Big Meat Eater (1982)

BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Drew Zucker and Phillip Sevy’s The House

THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Richard Chizmar’s Chasing the Boogeyman

THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Vintage Visions of Austin Pardun

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Slasher movie archetypes

AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Spiritbox

PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Five Years of Dead by Daylight

VS DEBATE: Lovecraft of Poe: whose writings are more morbid?