#208 Sep/Oct 2022 Halloween Special Issue

  FEATURES

RUE MORGUE commemorates the phenomenon that was (and is) VHS, the revolutionary media format that continues to change the way we make and watch horror movies. Features OUT THERE HALLOWEEN MEGATAPE, the all-new film from the mad mind behind 2013’s WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL; inside the V/H/S franchise, Hollywood’s VIDEO SLASHBACK and the return of the original VHS horror game: ATMOSFEAR.

Plus! RUE MORGUE’S 25 GHASTLIEST MUSIC VIDEOS of the past 25 years! After shocking audiences with an orgy of unforgettable carnage in 2016, Art the Clown returns to wreak bloody havoc this Halloween in TERRIFIER 2. JASON OCKER’s new book, THE UNITED STATES OF CRYPTIDS, invites readers on a cross-country hunt for creatures that continue to haunt the American psyche.

Also featured: LYLE BLACKBURN of MONSTRO BIZARRO pours his cryptid passion into a new podcast. Forty years ago this year, Pacific Comics debuted TWISTED TALES, one of the little known and best-kept secrets amongst fans of comic book horror. An immersive journey into the nightmarish hellscapes of H.R. Giger, SCORN is designed to test your sanity… on every level.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Bringing the horror home

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 My Best Friend’s Exorcism

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection

BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Ticks (1993)

BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Bat (1959)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Josh Eiserike’s The Very Final Last Girls THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Toil & Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Sinister Sentimentality of Steven Rhodes

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: What you didn’t see in The Exorcist

AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: New from Diamanda Galás

PLAY DEAD PLAYING: The Quarry and St. Dinfna Hotel

VS DEBATE: What is the best horror movie of the past 25 years to watch on Halloween night?