Rue Morgue #223 Mar/Apr 2025

FEATURES

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary and upcoming film adaptation, writers LARRY FESSENDEN and GRAHAM REZNICK revisit the labyrinthine scares of UNTIL DAWN, their classic interactive drama horror game. Plus! Director DAVID F. SANDBERG and co-writer GARY DAUBERMAN talk us through the journey from cinematic video game to gamified horror movie.

We all know that fear can be seen and heard, but does it have an identifiable smell? Several bold perfume companies seem to think so, and have taken to capturing the very SCENT OF HORROR. Plus! Most HORROR-THEMED PERFUMES seek to envelop a sense of terror in an enticing scent, but there’s also a market for the most disgusting smells imaginable.

The specter of a long-haired ghost girl crawling out of a television set cast a chill shadow through multiple adaptations and remakes across different countries. This issue, Rue Morgue looks at RING, the novel that started it all, from a man hailed as the “Stephen King of Japan.”

Educator-turned-filmmaker REENA DEEN mines Southeast Asia’s rich ghost myths in THE DAMNED ONES, the republic’s first horror film made with a disabled cast.

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Troubled Times

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 Christopher Landon’s Drop

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Cauldron Films’ Brivido Giallo

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Daughter of Horror (1955)

FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM
EXHIBIT: Incubus (1966)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Anthony Cleveland’s Buried Long, Long Ago

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Dark Moon Books’ Exploring Dark Short Fiction

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Chilling Renderings of Cecil Porter

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Who buried Pamela Voorhees?

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: Alia Synesthesia

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Alien: Rogue Incursion and Little Lighthouse of Horror

VS
DEBATE: What is the best fictional musical act to ever appear in a horror movie?