#209 Nov/Dec 2022

FEATURES From the ashes of years in isolation comes a new boogeyman to haunt your dreams in THE HARBINGER. Rue Morgue traces the path of horror’s freshest raconteur, writer/director ANDY MITTON; and ROBERT (The Witch) EGGERS recalls working on Mitton’s debut movie YELLOWBRICKROAD. CHET ZAR’s mammoth new art book, DY5TOPIA, is a bestiary collecting twenty years of sinister creations… the making of which nearly unmade the artist. Plus! S. ELIZABETH takes readers on a guided tour through centuries of dark art in her new hardcover THE ART OF DARKNESS. Veteran director ROGER SPOTTISWOODE recalls his classic Canuck slasher debut, 1980’s TERROR TRAIN, which trapped Jamie Lee Curtis and David Copperfield on a doomed ride through the mountains. At UNSETTLING TOYS, Sara Derrickson and Brian Jillson work to remove and rehome the creepiest dolls, puppets and mannequins in existence, offering collectors a unique chance to bring horror home DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Fresh blood. 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 featuring featuring Oscar Martin’s Amigo REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Shot on Video, Recovered on Blu-ray BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Super Dark Times (2017) BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Cullen Bunn’s Shock Shop THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Matt Cardin’s What the Daemon Said THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Handcrafted Horrors of Grayhouse Studios DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Satanism Goes to the Dogs AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Seance! With Zabrecky PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Scorn and Cult of the Lamb VS DEBATE: Is the era of zombie cinema finally dead?