#213 Jul/Aug 2023

FEATURES Rue Morgue’s founding editor and president, RODRIGO GUDIÑO, is joined by author NICK CUTTER and rock icon SLASH for their new horror film THE BREACH, a Lovecraft-inspired creature feature set in the woods of Northern Ontario. You’ve seen the movie. You know the story. Now, try to live through the nightmare of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, courtesy of GUN INTERACTIVE, who has teamed up with TCM scriptwriter KIM HENKEL for an asymmetrical horror experience unlike any other. In the history of comics, few have matched the hyperbolic horror of legendary artist RICHARD CORBEN. Now DEN, one of the master fantasist’s most famous epics is resurrected. Plus! Hellboy creator MIKE MIGNOLA reflects on Den and his own collaboration with its late creator. Filmmaker ANDRE OVREDAL brings some of the most frightening pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to life, in his new film THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Pride and Prejudice 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! REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Swamp Thing arises uncut on 4K UHD IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Superstition (1982) FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Russell Goldman and Karl Stevens’ Mother Nature THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Tenebrous Press THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Multi-Coloured Monsters of Mark Spears DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Absurdities of The Descent 2 AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Backstage and Beyond with Fabio Frizzi PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Buddy Simulator 1984 and Dredge VS DEBATE: What horror movie involving AI is most likely to have predicted what our future.