WHATS INSIDE A GHOST?

Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudino takes us on a personal journey: how he created Rue Morgue Cinema’s flagship feature film, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh.
PLUS: An interview with Aaron Poole, and FX artist Anthony Scott Burns on bringing the film’s mysterious creature to life.

by Rodrigo Gudino and Alison Lang

RESTLESS SOULS

Claire Bloom, co-star of The Haunting, helps us celebrate the 50th anniversary of what may be cinema’s greatest ghost story.

by Colin McCracken, illustration by Justin Erickson

LIVING WITH THE DEAD

Insidious director James Wan and star Patrick Wilson once again channel the spirit of old-school studio horror with The Conjuring.

by April Snellings

MUMMIES OF THE MOUNTAIN

Renowned morbid adventurer Paul Koudounaris tours the burial caves of Central Luzon, where spirits speak.

by Paul Koudounaris

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Faces, Faith and Fear.

DREADLINES

Jack Pierce Memorial Gallery unveiled in Los Angeles; Street artist turns mental hospital into horror art museum; Dark Horse to publish exploitation film-themed comic book series.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Sack Head Assailants.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Predator Helmet; Bigfoot, The Bashful Yeti tree sculpture; Zombie sleep mask; Zombie Will.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Byzantium, The Purge, Kiss of the Damned, Would You Rather, 13 Eerie, Errors of the Human Body, and more! Reissues reviews The Howling (1981), The Dark Dealer (1995) and Lifeforce (1985).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: Black Sabbath.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Citizen X.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Baron Von Frankenstein: A Hollywood Fairytale, plus reviews of The Shadow #13, Lobster Johnson: Satan Smells a Rat, The Dream Merchant #1, Chin Music #1, and The Fall of the House of Usher #1 of 2.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Ronald Malfi’s Cradle Lake. Library of the Damned investigates StoryNexus and Black Crown. Plus, reviews of Zombi Mexicano, E.B. Hudspeth’s The Resurrectionist, Dreams of Fear: Poems of Terror and the Supernatural, Lee Thomas’ Like Light For Flies, and more!

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Jason Edmiston.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Fist of Jesus and Bad Meat.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring The Builders and the Butchers’ Western Medicine. Listen to My Nightmare turns the spotlight on Maurizio Guarini’s Creatures From a Drawer. Plus reviews of Antiviral OST, Willard OST, Harley Poe, Three One Se7en, Dead by Midnight, Suicide Commando, and Corn on Macabre.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Resident Evil: Revelations, Mansion Run, and Hearse Driver 3D.

CLASSIC CUT

The Pan Book of Horror Stories series.

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE

20 new subscribers will win a copy of Hatchet III courtesy of Dark Sky Films.