Rue Morgue #226 Sep/Oct 2025 Halloween Special Issue

FEATURES

RUE MORGUE unearths some of the genre’s lost films, including those of the late, great LON CHANEY, and explores why Tod Browning’s LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT lingers in our collective imagination. Plus! Chaney’s A BLIND BARGAIN gets a retro-modern reimagining with a dash of CRISPIN GLOVER; Steven Spielberg's SOMETHING EVIL and other lost made-for-TV horror movies that terrorized a generation; and the unquiet spirits of the lost Filipino horror films are awakened in Nikolas Red’s POSTHOUSE.

Add some trick ’r treat to your vacation plans with a DARK TOUR OF AMERICA - thirteen must-visit American destinations for the morbidly inclined, personally selected by the gals ’n’ ghouls at RUE MORGUE!

CURSED FILMS have been whispered about since the dawn of cinema; now they are a growing literary obsession.

The Mistress of the Dark dishes on her delectable new project, ELVIRA'S COOKBOOK FROM HELL: Sexy, Spooky Soirees and Celebrations for Every Occasion.

RUE MORGUE rereads one of the odder chapters in the ongoing career of RICHARD BACHMAN. Plus! A closer look at Bachman’s upcoming Hollywood adaptation of THE LONG WALK.

THE BACKROOMS has evolved from a creepy online concept with a cult-like fandom into an upcoming Hollywood horror film. But can empty space truly be scary?

A RUE MORGUE SCRAPBOOK of the year’s event highlights!

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Over the Edge

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 Steven Kostanski’s Deathstalker

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Night of the Living Dead (1990)

BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Fiend (1980)

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
ODDITY: Beauty Ritual Through Body Horror

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Richard T. Wilson’s Halloween Girl Book Three: Gods & Monsters

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Captivating Canvases of Caroline Beaudoin

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: The Dot Com Before the Storm

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: Archaic Frights of the Flexi Disc

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: The Necromancer’s Tale and Occlude

VS
DEBATE: Has the final girl trope run its course?