RUE MORGUE

Summer Slasher Issue featuring SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA with director Jane Schoenbrun and stars Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder; 10 years of DEAD BY DAYLIGHT, the ultimate slasher playground; Eli Roth on his gore-soaked ICE CREAM MAN; E.L. Chen's SLASHER SUMMER; the music of FRIDAY THE 13th and lots more.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

RUE MORGUE

POST-MORTEM • COMMENTS • QUESTIONS • CRITICISM

THE CORONER’S REPORT • WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS

THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… • Kyra Schon, Karen Cooper from Night of the Living Dead (1968)

NEEDFUL THINGS

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES • ACE NOVELTY 12-INCH TALKING CRYPTKEEPER (1994)

CARDBOARD CRYPT • TOPPS JAWS 3-D TRADING CARDS (1983)

OPEN WOUNDS • 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

SURVIVING CAMP MIASMA • GILLIAN ANDERSON AND HANNAH EINBINDER UNPACK JANE SCHOENBRUN’S RADICAL DISMEMBERMENT OF THE SUMMER SLASHER

SUMMER CAMP FOR SLASHERS • FOR TEN YEARS, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT HAS TRANSFORMED HORROR’S GREATEST KILLERS INTO PLAYABLE NIGHTMARES INSIDE GAMING’S ULTIMATE SLASHER PLAYGROUND

BUILDING THE NIGHTMARE • THE CREATORS OF DEAD BY DAYLIGHT PULL BACK THE CURTAIN ON A DECADE OF KILLERS, SURVIVORS, AND SURVIVAL HORROR WORLD-BUILDING

All Scream for Ice Cream! • ELI ROTH BREAKS FREE OF HOLLYWOOD AND DELIVERS THE SUMMER SLASHER NOBODY WOULD LET HIM MAKE… UNTIL NOW

More Terror in the Aisles • ELI ROTH'S THE HORROR SECTION IS BUILDING A NEW KIND OF HORROR LABEL: UNRATED, UNCOMPROMISING, AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY THEATRICAL

SLASH SEASON • E.L. CHEN’S NEW NOVEL, SLASHER SUMMER, DRAGS THE GENRE OFF THE SCREEN AND ONTO THE PAGE

CINEMACABRE • FILM + DVD + REISSUES

OVERLOOKED, FORGOTTEN AND DISMISSED • THIS ISSUE: LANCE GETS DESERTED

SHORT CUTS • BITE-SIZED FRIGHTS FOR SMALL APPETITES

HIVE AND SEEK • A DECADE AFTER TRAIN TO BUSAN PUT KOREAN HORROR ON THE GLOBAL MAP, YEON SANG-HO RETURNS TO THE UNDEAD WITH COLONY, A HIVE-MIND NIGHTMARE WHERE BIOTECHNOLOGY HAS FINALLY GIVEN THE ZOMBIE SOMETHING FAR MORE TERRIFYING THAN HUNGER: A BRAIN

REISSUED & REANIMATED

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT • Satan, Snow,and Videotape

GHOUL NEXT DOOR • DO NOT PERCEIVE THIE COLUMN

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

QUICK CUTS

THE NINTH CIRCLE BOOKS

DANTE’S PICK

KETTLE SPRINGS SLAUGHTER • WITH LIGHTS! CAMERA! FRENDO!, ADAM CESARE DRAGS HIS KILLER CLOWN FRANCHISE BACK INTO THE CORNFIELDS FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF MASKS, MAYHEM, AND TEENAGE CARNAGE

LIBRARY OF THE DAMNED • ON ANNIVERSARIES AND WEIRD OLD BOOKS

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS • A DUMPSTER DIVE INTO HORROR’S ODDS & CURIOS

AUDIO DROME

PODCASTS FROM BEYOND

MELODY, HARMONY, RHYTHM AND MURDER

PLAY DEAD • NOW PLAYING> NECROPHOSIS: FULL CONSCIOUSNESS, SINTOPIA

IS THE SLASHER GENRE’S FORMULAIC NATURE ITS GREATEST STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS? • IT DOESN’T TAKE A DIEHARD HORROR FAN TO KNOW THE FOUNDATIONAL EQUATION OF THE SLASHER FILM: DISPOSABLE TEENS PARTYING + MASKED KILLER SLASHING = BLOODBATH GALORE. BUT DOES THIS TRIED-AND-TRUE FORMULA KEEP THE SUBGENRE ALIVE, OR RELEGATE IT TO THE REALM OF PARODY AND PASTICHE? TWO OF OUR WRITERS ENTER THE RING TO BATTLE IT OUT!