#227 Nov/Dec 2025

One of the most fertile imaginations in the genre today, director GUILLERMO DEL TORO breathes new life into Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, the movie, he says, that he was born to make. Plus! del Toro reflects on 19-year-old MARY SHELLEY and her forebear, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT; FX Wizard MIKE HILL on bringing Frankenstein’s lumbering creature to life, and a look at the OFFICIAL COMPANION BOOK to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.  The BOULET BROTHERS team up with actor/writer DAVID DASTMALCHIAN to bring you HOLIDAY OF HORRORS, their four-story anthology horror film, just in time for the Yuletide season! Plus a look at Dastmalchian’s GRAVE CONVERSATIONS talk show. In his new book SCARED BY THE BIBLE, author BRANDON R. GRAFIUS asks what kinds of horrors can be found in scripture. Plus! Author Matt Rogerson on his new book, THE VATICAN VERUS HORROR MOVIES. A jigsaw puzzle that reveals a secret horror when assembled? Dare to piece together these PUZZLES OF DOOM! Plus! Crossword puzzles more your thing? Look no further than Adam Simpson’s HORROR-THEMED WORD GAMES. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Maestro y Amigo 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 Kurtis Davis Harder’s Influencers REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Tom Stern and Alex Winter’s Freaked BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Help! (1924) THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR ODDITY: Tiny Murderers in My Garden BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Ryan Oliver and M. Ryan Arnold’s Phantom Grip THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Emily A. Weedon’s Hemo Sapiens THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Ghastly Gloomscapes of Ego DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Killer Work Ethic AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Tenebra by The Newton Brothers PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Dead Reset and Strange Antiquities VS DEBATE: What is the best holiday-themed horror movie of all time?