Hell’s Shelves: Cathi Unsworth on Weirdo
[Alan Kelly checks in with a new installment of Hell's Shelves.] There are several strains of inspiration running through Cathi Unsworth’s goth/noir/horror novel Weirdo – ideas and influences that have...
View ArticleMonster Kid Corner: The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
[Paul Counelis checks in with a new installment of Monster Kid Corner.] Every year around the middle of August or so, when the craft stores and candle makers are putting out their early Halloween...
View ArticleAll Roads Lead to Rock and Shock
[Our annual Rock and Shock post-mortem, courtesy of Rue Morgue Audio Drome correspondent George Pacheco. We don't call him "Metal George" for nothing...] The month of October means many things for New...
View ArticleMONSTER KID CORNER: Dear Dracula
[Only 360 days until Halloween! Paul Counelis helps set the mood with a new installment of Monster Kid Corner.] A few years ago, Image Comics released a nifty hardcover graphic novel called Dear...
View ArticleRUE MORGUE UK at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival
Rick Gladman (AKA Cyberschizoid) meets some of the other guests at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival's infamous Vampire Ball. [Since today is Bram Stoker's 165th birthday, it seems fitting to...
View ArticleMONSTER KID CORNER: Upside Down
[Paul Counelis checks in with a new installment of Monster Kid Corner.] Over the years, the comic book industry has undergone a massive transformation, to say the least. In the ’60s, comics racks were...
View ArticleMonster Kid Corner: Beast Wishes DVD
[RM contributor Paul Counelis checks in with the first Monster Kid Corner column of 2013!] Quite a few years back, I picked up a book at a library sale called Monster Kid Memories, by Bob Burns as told...
View ArticleAllan Graves’ The Zombook
RM writer and copy editor extraordinaire Claire Horsnell gets the skinny on The Zombook, a horror art tome that sends a beastiary of shamblers straight into your living room. Book of the Dead by Claire...
View ArticleWomen in Horror: An interview with comics creator Becky Cloonan
[In honour of Women in Horror Month, Mike DeShane and Aaron Von Lupton will be spotlighting three of the many ladies working in the bloody trenches of the horror comics biz. First up is Becky Cloonan,...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: The Faculty of Horror
[RM contributor/Office Manager Ron McKenzie talks horror with the ladies of the Faculty of Horror podcast.] Individually, Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West have each racked up an impressive hit list....
View ArticleTravis Louie curates zombie art show
This Saturday, May 25 marks the opening of Zombie, an art show curated by RM favourite Travis Louie. Fifty artists were asked to interpret the word “zombie” for the New York show, which runs May 25 –...
View ArticleLos Angeles art gallery features Guillermo Del Toro tribute show
If you’re in the Los Angeles area this month, you’ll want to stop in the Hyaena Gallery and check out their Guillermo del Toro tribute show, running now through July 31. Into the Labyrinth and Mind of...
View ArticleCelebrate Roswell’s 66th anniversary with a bonkers animated short
Since today is the 66th anniversary of whatever the hell happened at Roswell, New Mexico on July 8, 1947, it seems like an appropriate time to revisit Lee Hardcastle's 2012 short film AN ALIEN...
View ArticleGot xenomorphs? No worries, here’s an exoskeleton suit.
As Ellen Ripley could tell you, nothing kicks alien ass like an exoskeleton suit that makes you taller, stronger, and an all-around better person. It seems that a Japanese company called Sagawa...
View ArticleMonster Kid Corner: Men In Suits
[RM contributor Paul Counelis rises from the depths with a new installment of Monster Kid Corner!] I was a very young boy in the late ’70s, and like countless other kids, my first real exposure to...
View ArticleMONSTER KID CORNER: Drive-In Documentary ‘Going Attractions’
[RM contributor Paul Counelis offers up a new installment of Monster Kid Corner.] You might think a full-length feature film claiming to be the “definitive story of the American drive-in movie” could...
View Article500 years of beautiful – and grotesque – anatomical art
My virtual travels recently led me to Dream Anatomy, an online exhibition from the US National Library of Medicine. It’s a collection of crazily imaginative anatomical illustrations (and a few photos)...
View ArticleTwilight explained: Edward’s not a vampire, he’s just got some syphilis
I never knew this, but according to this 1863 illustration from London’s Wellcome Library, one of the many ways syphilis can mess you up before killing you is by giving you crazy vampire teeth. Via...
View ArticleMonster Kid Corner: Uniquely October
Rue Morgue contributor Paul Counelis checks in with some Monster Kid thoughts on Halloween. Paul has eight kids – a portion of his brood is pictured below – so he’s a bit of an authority on the...
View ArticleTHE RETURN OF THE BLACK MUSEUM
French extreme cinema, snuff movies, religious cults in horror… ring the bell, kids, because school’s back in session. The Black Museum‘s lecture series returns for another semester of enlightening and...
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