Rue Morgue 232
Rue Morgue #232 Halloween 2026
Inside Rue Morgue #232
How Weapons director Zach Cregger turned a lifelong obsession with Resident Evil into horror’s most anticipated reboot. Plus: A deep look at the Resident Evil video game franchise and its universe of novelizations, board and card games and more, and a look at Cregger’s long-awaited physical release of Barbarian, his solo directorial debut.
The Count you know – the cape, the widow’s peak, the accent – was never realized as such in Bram Stoker’s book. Here’s how a carefully engineered monster became a mass-produced icon.
David Kittredge’s new doc Boorman and the Devil shines a new light on one of horror’s biggest flops, Exorcist II: The Heretic, and its unflappable visionary director. Plus: A closer look at why The Heretic remains loathed by fans of the 1973 original and the studio executives it nearly ruined. And a look at the new 4K Director’s Cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils.
Nearly 50 years after a life-changing DC show, Henry Rollins repays The Cramps by resurrecting their long-buried album, Gravest Gravy. Plus: Rollins breaks down his top tracks by The Cramps, just in time for your Halloween party playlist.
With Clive Barker’s blessing and Doug Bradley’s pins back in place, Hellraiser: Revival finally gives the Cenobites the video game they deserve.
Welcome to Derry’s Brad Caleb Kane digs up the roots of the Friday the 13th mythos in Crystal Lake, A24’s Pamela Voorhees prequel.
Memento Morgue: The past year in horror, in photos.
DEPARTMENTS
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Friendzoned
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 latest films, featuring Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho
REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Abel Ferrara’s New Rose Hotel
BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Jack Sholder’s Alone in the Dark (1982)
THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
ODDITY: A Secret Horror Art Book
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Brian “Box” Brown’s FOREVR
THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Nēpenthé Press’ The Green Book
THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Optic Oddities of The Kind Artist
DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Paranormal Activities
AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: John Carpenter’s Cathedral
PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Undead and Ghost Keeper
VS
DEBATE: Are first sequels doomed to disappoint?
