Rue Morgue #231 Jul/Aug 2026

Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA guts the slasher formula from the inside out, turning it into a romance about the horror of becoming who you were always meant to be. Plus! GILLIAN ANDERSON and HANNAH EINBINDER unpack Schoenbrun’s radical dismemberment of the summer slasher.

For ten years, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT has transformed horror’s greatest killers into playable nightmares inside gaming’s ultimate slasher playground. Plus! Dead by Daylight creators pull back the curtain on ten years of killers, survivors, and survival horror world-building.

Eli Roth breaks free of Hollywood and delivers ICE CREAM MAN, the summer slasher nobody would let him make… until now. Plus! Roth’s THE HORROR SECTION is building a new kind of horror label: unrated, uncompromising, and unapologetically theatrical.

E.L. Chen’s debut novel, SLASHER SUMMER, drags the genre off the screen and onto the page.

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Slash and Burn

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 Yeon Sang-Ho’s Colony

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: Laurin Comes of Age on U.S. Disc

BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Sal Ciavarello’s Hardcore Poisoned Eyes (2000)

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
ODDITY: Infected by Ideas

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Andry, Daniel and House’s Estuary: A Ghost Story

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Adam Cesare’s Lights! Camera! Frendo!

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Seared Souls of burn.out.202

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Bloodbath and Beyond

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: The Music of Friday the 13th: Volume One

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Necrophosis: Full Consciousness and Sintopia

VS
DEBATE: Is the slasher formula its greatest strength or weakness?