#203 Nov/Dec 2021 Xmas Issue – ALTERNATE COVER

Featuring alternative cover art by ROB BIRCHFIELD! FEATURES T’was the final decade of VHS, an era that berthed a thousand B-movies, most of them lost, some impossible to forget. Now, almost 25 years later, Rue Morgue wrecks the halls with director MICHAEL COONEY to celebrate the arrival of JACK FROST and JACK FROST 2 on Blu-ray, just in time for the holidays! Rue Morgue ventures to Canada’s east coast NEWFOUNDLAND to uncover a DIY community hungry for horror and drawing on its rich folklore to put their personal stamp on the genre. Plus! Newfoundland’s tradition of MUMMERING and more! by Jessica Buck Back in 2014, STEPHEN BIRO resurrected GUINEA PIG, one of the most notorious and extreme titles in horror history. This year, he explodes his AMERICAN GUINEA PIG brand in a shower of guts and gore. From the Welsh highlands comes THE FEAST, an elegantly prepared eco-horror film with enough splashes of gore to earn its place at the table. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Moongaming 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 Miles Doleac’s Demigod REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: "Homebodies”: Everything Old Is New Again BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Snake handlers! BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Francesco Artibani’s He Who Fights With Monsters THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Clark Collis’ You’ve Got Red on You THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Shadowy Scratches Mathieu Pequignot (a.k.a. Elvisdead) DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Silent Night, Deadly Night AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: The witchey sounds of Kaelan Mikla PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Max Payne revisited VS DEBATE: What is the best horror movie cameo, ever?