Rue Morgue #225 Jul/Aug 2025

FEATURES

Before he became a shock rock superstar, ALICE COOPER was a band renowned for blasting taboos with its fusion of glam rock and over-the-top horror theatrics. Now, after five long decades, the original lineup - COOPER, MICHAEL BRUCE, DENNIS DUNAWAY, NEAL SMITH  and a posthumous appearance by the late GLEN BUXTON - reunites for a triumphant return. Plus! Legendary producer BOB EZRIN returns to the shock rock group he had a hand in creating.

On the occasion of his upcoming book, SPECTRAL LIGHTS, Rue Morgue’s Dejan Ognjanović gives a short masterclass on the masters of THE ENGLISH GHOST STORY. Plus! Legendary horror fiction writer RAMSEY CAMPBELL on the classic ghost stories of England’s past.

Legendary Pictures, creators of a big budget monsterverse populated by a trio of Godzilla films and the Jurassic World franchise, have flexed their mighty muscle to reboot of a 40 year-old superhero black comedy splatterfest… THE TOXIC AVENGER.

A cosmic event that turns cisgender heterosexual people into bloodthirsty rage zombies; a gay conversion camp where a demon possession bolsters its one-hundred-percent effectiveness rate... Welcome to the mad world of CHUCK TINGLE.

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
The Longest Walk

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 Hell House LLC: Lineage

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Fulci's 7 Doors of Death

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Humanoids From the Deep (1996)

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
EXHIBIT: Creepy Doll Collecting

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Adam Carter and Armin Ozdik’s Betweeners

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Menacing Street Art of Jamie Paul Scanlon

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: The Tall Man’s Spheres Turn Blue

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: The Devil and Daisy Dirt

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Ghost Frequency and Moroi

VS
DEBATE: Are ghost stories better suited to fiction or film?