#210 Jan/Feb 2023

FEATURES Mexican horror cinema finds a new champion in Michelle Garza Cervera, who shatters motherhood taboos like so many brittle bones in her terrifying debut feature, HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN. Plus! Tijuana-based filmmaker Abraham Sánchez lists and elaborates some MEXICAN HORROR ESSENTIAL VIEWING, meet the SATANIC HISPANICS and more! Rue Morgue sits down with authors Ramsey Campbell, and Laird Barron and scholars S.T. Joshi and Bobbie Derrie as WEIRD TALES, the most influential magazine of horror fiction, celebrates a centenary. Plus! THE ART OF WEIRD TALES and a peek at the upcoming THE BEST OF WEIRD TALES VOL 1 anthology. Using a popular horror trope as its title, THE BLACK GUY DIES FIRST is a new book from the minds behind Horror Noire that investigates the ways in which the genre’s past informs its present. Plus! A look at Tananarive Due, Steve Barnes and Marco Finnegan’s graphic novel THE KEEPER. RIP 2022 THE YEAR IN REVIEW - Rue Morgue salutes a banner year in horror! DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Brujas and Broomsticks. 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 Perry Blackshear’s When I Consume You REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: SRS Cinema’s Space Monster Wangmagwi BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Spectre (1977) BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Black Room (1935) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Joe Corallo’s Dahlia in the Dark THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Pulp Culture Art of Stephen Andrade DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Wigging out on Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: The Music of Hausu PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Saturnalia and Paper Cut Mansion VS DEBATE: Is interest from big-budget studios a good or bad thing for the horror genre?