Launched in 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño, RUE MORGUE is the world’s leading horror in culture and entertainment brand, spearheaded by its multiple award-winning magazine, RUE MORGUE and RUE MORGUE DIGITAL; RUE MORGUE TV specialty horror channel; RUE MORGUE LIBRARY book series; RUE MORGUE PRESENTS FRIGHTMARE IN THE FALLS horror expo and RUE MORGUE PRESENTS CINEMACABRE MOVIE NIGHTS monthly film series.
RUE MORGUE DIGITAL is funded by the Government of Canada
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
RUE MORGUE
POST MORTEM
CORONER’S REPORT • WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS
FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER: WORM OR NOODLE?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… • Leo Rossi, Budd from Halloween II (1981)
NEEDFUL THINGS
HANDMADE HORRORS • MACABRE MEMENTOS FROM STAGHORN HOUSE
CRYPTIC COLLECTIBLES • THE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET COMPANION
THE END IS FEAR • HAS THE DOOMSDAY BOOGEYMAN OF OUR WILDEST DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARES FINALLY BEEN UNLEASHED UPON THE WORLD? RUE MORGUE DISCUSSES THE ROLE THAT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLAYS IN OUR FEARS – REAL AND IMAGINED – WITH SOME KEY PLAYERS IN THE FIELD OF SPECULATIVE HORROR FICTION
TECH YUREI • DOCUMENTARIANS SARAH APPLETON AND JASPER SHARP EXPLORE HOW VENGEFUL GHOSTS ONCE MANIFESTED THROUGH TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR MOVIE THE J-HORROR VIRUS, DUE OUT LATER THIS YEAR
HAUNTED BY A.I. • DO YOU DARE ENTER A HAUNTED ATTRACTION DESIGNED AND MAINTAINED ENTIRELY BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE • MEET LOAB, A RECURRING NIGHTMARE THAT CRAWLED FROM THE MIND OF AI, AND THE WORLD’S FIRST CYBER-CRYPTID
DREAMING IN DIGITAL • SOME OF THE GENRE’S BIGGEST NAMES ATTEMPT TO MAKE SENSE OF AI HORROR ART IN TERROR IN THE AILIEN REALMS
HORRORS …WAITING TO BE MADE! • FILMIC ADAPTATIONS OF POPULAR HORROR NOVELS HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE DAWN OF THE MEDIUM, BUT THAT’S NOT TO SAY THAT SOME EXCELLENT CONTENDERS HAVEN’T FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS OVER THE YEARS. THIS HALLOWEEN, RUE MORGUE PRESENTS A LIST OF GENRE NOVELS RIPE FOR THE CINEMATIC TREATMENT – FILMMAKERS TAKE NOTE!
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS (1936)
SHADOWLAND (1980)
GEEK LOVE (1989)
HORRORS… WAITING TO BE REMADE! • YOU’VE HEARD IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN – “THE BOOK WAS BETTER THAN THE FILM.” WHAT YOU DON’T HEAR AS OFTEN IS A PLEA FOR A SECOND STAB. BEHOLD RUE MORGUE’S PICKS FOR BOOKS THAT DESERVE ANOTHER SHOT AT ADAPTATION
HOUSE OF LEAVES MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI • HOUSE OF LEAVES (2000)
CONSUMED A NOVEL DAVID CRONENBERG • CONSUMED (2014)
THE LIVING DEAD NEW NOVEL A WORK OF GORY GENIUS-JOE HILL • THE LIVING DEAD (2020)
NINE YEARS OF FIVE NIGHTS • FROM ITS HUMBLE INDIE BEGINNINGS TO INTERNATIONAL POP CULTURE PHENOMENON, RUE MORGUE PROVIDES A CRASH COURSE IN ALL THINGS FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S
FREDDY’S FAN CLUB • BEYOND THE OFFICIAL FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S RELEASES EXISTS A VIBRANT, THRIVING WORLD OF FAN-MADE CONTENT WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED
FEAR! FUN! FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S • DIRECTOR EMMA TAMMI DELIVERS THE LONG-AWAITED ADAPTATION OF THE POPULAR SURVIVAL-HORROR GAME FRANCHISE TO THE BIG SCREEN, JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN
MURDER IN THE FAMILY • ONE OF MODERN LITERATURE’S MOST TWISTED SCRIBES, CHUCK PALAHNIUK RETURNS WITH NOT FOREVER, BUT FOR NOW, A BITING NEW SATIRE THAT LAMPOONS STUFFY BRITISH PRIVILEGE WITH A STREAK OF DRUGS, DEBAUCHERY, AND BLOODY MURDER
FUCKED-UP CHUCK • A TRUE LITERARY WILD CHILD, CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S DARK IMAGINATION KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES. HIS OEUVRE IS POSSIBLY BEST DESCRIBED AS FUCKED UP, SO WE ASKED HIM JUST HOW FUCKED UP HE CAN BE
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