Ghoulish Galleries

The Guillermo del Toro “Fright Nights” silkscreened posters, created by Rue Morgue’s illustrious art department of Ghoulish Gary Pullin and Justin Erickson, are now available to collectors in extremely limited quantities! The standard gold version of the 12×36” poster (limited to 100) is now on sale for $40 and the silver alternate edition (limited to just 30) is on sale for $65. Both renditions are printed with metallic inks on acid-free, heavy art stock, signed by both artists, and numbered. Gets yours before they’re gone from either Phantom City Creative or GhoulishGary.com!

The Rue Morgue art team invades this year’s October Shadows art show, which takes place this Sunday, October 2nd, in L.A. at the Mountain View Mausoleum (yes, where they filmed Phantasm). This is their fourth year, and it’s sure to be the best. No word yet on a collected art book but we’ll keep you posted. Drew Struzan, Rick Baker, Gris Grimly, Eric Pigors, Bruce Spaulding Fuller are just some of the artists displaying their Halloween inspired goods.

Once in a while I’ll get an email from Jason with his latest monstrous miniatures. I’ve been saving a few so I could share these typically astounding new pieces. Rue readers will have seen
Jason’s work in our Nightmare Gallery special art feature (RM#100) and our artful tribute to Vincent Price’s 100th anniversary in RM#111.

A selection of the best underground artists from Toronto are uniting for this exciting art show commemorating the 34th anniversary of the death of the King: Elvis Aaron Presley.
All have been given the same canvas to work from – a vintage Elvis bust – and each of them has been asked to present their take on Elvis’ last days.

Dark artist Chet Zar (RM#100 Nightmare Gallery contributor) will have an opening reception for his Faces of Death exhibit to unveil new paintings of his otherworldly monsters at Paul Booth’s Last Rites art gallery, with an opening reception to be held July 22 at 7pm. Renowned painter Craig LaRontonda will also be in attendance for his Eternal Consequences series. The show runs until August 19th. I highly recommend anyone remotely close to the NY area check out the haunting artwork that will be on display and Booth’s equally beautiful gallery space. Read more to view the full announcement card for the event

Now that the Dallas dust has settled and the sound of chainsaws are are all but a distant buzz, I’d like to announce the winners of our Rue Morgue Cover contest we held at this year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend. Entries were coming faster than you can say “Dog will hunt!” all weekend and I was astounded by the amount of creativity and the diversity in design on display. I will say it was tough to pick three, so I’m including some honourable mentions that warmed the cockles of our cold, dead hearts.

Just released today, Mondo’s Rabid poster, by our own Justin Erickson! Feast your eyes and weep… literally if you were hoping to get one, because they sold out before I could finish this post. D’oh!

You might think hanging out with hobos for the past month must have got us feeling cavalier but truth is, we’re just so damn excited about Ghoulish Gary’s illustrated cover for next month’s issue that we thought we’d give you an early look at what’s headed your way (probably in a rusted-out boxcar) in April. Behold…

What do you do when you wake up at 4 in the morning and can’t get back to sleep? Well, I’d suggest doing what I did: make yourself a nice cup of tea, grab your best pair of headphones, turn off all the lights and settle in to slooshy the final episode of Tales From Beyond The Pale – Season One.

Check out this bloody vivid poster by artist Florian Bertmer, commissiond by Mondo Tees and Severin Films for their screening of Jodorowsky’s Santa Sange at the Alamo Drafthouse. Read on to find out how to nab one.