Rue Morgue #222 Jan/Feb 2025

FEATURES

Icon and iconoclast, CLIVE BARKER has been marching to the beat of his own dark drum since breaking out as a genre superstar some four decades ago. Today he continues to defy rules to create new terrors and new visions that flout convention. Plus! A new GALLERY OF BARKER'S BEASTS and NEW POETRY from Clive!

Wolfcop director LOWELL DEAN cuts an evil slice of fun with DARK MATCH, his violent and gory new film set in the world of ’80s Canadian pro wrestling. Plus! Mexico's LUCH LIBRE HORROR CINEMA, and a handy guide to ESSENTIAL LUCHA MOVIES, past and present!

After three decades, DARK DELICACIES, one of the world’s oldest and most beloved horror bookstores is closing its doors. Plus! Dark DEL HOWISON might be closing shop, but his fiction continues to thrive late into the night.

2024: THE YEAR IN REVIEW Join us as we raise a glass to another year of horror and congratulate the standouts!

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Barker's Bitch

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 Soderbergh’s Presence

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Hammer’s New Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Salem’s Lot (2024)

FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM
EXHIBIT: The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: John Dolmayan and Ryan Benjamin’s Dead Samurai

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Spine-Chilling Sketches of Cody Schibi

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Justice for Franklin Hardesty

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: Blitz//Berlin

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Menace from the Deep and Amanda the Adventurer 2

VS
DEBATE: Who is Clive Barker’s most indelible character?