Rue Morgue (magazine)

Last updated

Rue Morgue
RueMorgue 62.jpg
Children's television character The Count on the cover of Rue Morgue issue 62
Executive EditorAndrea Subissati
Contributing EditorMonica S. Kuebler
Online Managing EditorWilliam J. Wright
Music EditorAaron Von Lupton
Games EditorEvan Millar
Former editors
  • Rodrigo Gudiño
  • Dave Alexander
  • Jovanka Vuckovic
Categories Horror film, horror television, horror fiction, non-fiction
FrequencyBimonthly
FormatPrint
Publisher Rodrigo Gudiño
FounderRodrigo Gudiño
Founded1997
First issueOctober 1997 [1]
CompanyMarrs Media Inc. [2]
CountryCanada
Based in Toronto
LanguageEnglish
Website rue-morgue.com
ISSN 1481-1103
OCLC 43828659

Rue Morgue is a multinational magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction. [3] Its content comprises news, reviews, commentary, interviews, and event coverage. Its journalistic span encompasses films, books, comic books, video games, and other media in the horror genre. [3] Rue Morgue was founded in 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño, and is headquartered in Toronto, with regional offices in various countries throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The magazine has expanded over time to encompass a radio station, book publishing company, [4] and horror convention. The magazine's namesake is Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).

Contents

Rue Morgue won the Rondo Award in the "Best Magazine" category every year from 2010 to 2016. [5] [6] The magazine published its landmark 200th issue in May 2021, which featured an exclusive interview with Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone.

Staff

Founder and former editor-in-chief Rodrigo Gudiño serves as the company president. As of March 2017, the executive editor is Andrea Subissati; contributing editor Monica S. Kuebler oversees book features and reviews; online managing editor William J. Wright handles news and reviews on Rue-Morgue.com; operations manager Mariam Bastani handles customer service and ensures that all weekly office operations are running smoothly; editorial assistant Maddi McGillvray reviews and edits the final prints of the magazine during production and is a frequent contributor to the website; music editor Aaron von Lupton oversees music features and reviews, and games editor Evan Millar oversees video game and tabletop game features and reviews. The art director is Andrew Wright. [7]

Some of the magazine's reviewers and feature writers are Michael Gingold, John W. Bowen, Paul Corupe, Sean Plummer, Gary Pullin, Aaron Von Lupton and Kaci Hansen, who publishes under the moniker "The Homicidal Homemaker".

Rue Morgue International publishes and maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Mexico. [8] Gudiño was the magazine's first editor-in-chief; he was followed by Jovanka Vuckovic, then Dave Alexander, who stepped down in 2017. [9] The Rue Morgue logo was created by former art director Gary Pullin, [10] and first appeared on the cover of the seventh issue.

Distribution

Rue Morgue secured national distribution in Canada by its fourth issue, published in July 1998. It began distribution in the United States in January 1999.[ citation needed ] By 2006 it closed a direct distribution deal for Europe.

Rue Morgue was published every other month for a number of years, then in January 2005 began publishing 11 issues per year (no issue was published in February). In 2017, the magazine returned to bimonthly publication.

Other media and events

From 2004 to 2012, Rue Morgue broadcast a weekly online radio show called Rue Morgue Radio hosted by Tomb Dragomir, made up of horror music, film reviews, and offbeat film clips. It was released through the magazine's website and as a podcast. For a time, the magazine also had a sister show, the Rue Morgue Podcast, which was all interviews and commentary.

The magazine's website hosted a Web forum called Rue Mortuary. When Rue Morgue decided to stop managing the forum, ownership shifted to Cinephobia and it was renamed The Mortuary. The new address became the-mortuary.com.

In 2010, Rue Morgue released a free album of horror themed music for download entitled Hymns from the House of Horror. Another album, Hymns from the House of Horror II, followed in 2011.

Rue Morgue has sponsored the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear in Toronto, and the Dark Carnival Expo in Hamilton, Ontario. [11]

Popular YouTube Channel HorrorBabble regularly collaborates with Rue Morgue Library for readings of little-known horror short stories & novellas. [12]

The magazine regularly hosts cultural events, including screenings of classic horror films (with their stars or creators in attendance) and horror-themed art shows. [13] [14] [15] Rue Morgue has also hosted the premiers of mainstream horror films in Canada, including the Canadian release of Annabelle. [16]

In 2013, the company started an imprint called The Rue Morgue Library. [4]

The magazine's 19th anniversary was celebrated by the city of Montreal in 2016 with the redecoration of the Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel with horror-themed decor. [17]

Cinema

Rue Morgue Cinema, a production company, debuted its first film at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and has since produced several short films. Among these are publisher Rodrigo Gudiño's The Eyes of Edward James, The Demonology of Desire, and The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow (with Vincent Marcone). Rue Morgue Cinema also produced a music video for "In the Dark", a single by The Birthday Massacre. Gudiño co-directed the video with lead guitarist Michael Falcore.[ citation needed ]

The company's biggest-budget project was the feature film The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2013), which starred Aaron Poole and Vanessa Redgrave.[ citation needed ]

Rue Morgue and Unstable Ground co-promote a monthly film festival in Toronto called Little Terrors, which screens short horror films. In 2017, Rue Morgue, Unstable Ground, and Indiecan began compiling Little Terrors films into video anthologies. [18]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Midnight Syndicate</span> American musical duo

Midnight Syndicate is an American musical duo that has been working primarily in the genre of neoclassical dark ambient music since 1997 and is based in Chardon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

<i>Fangoria</i> American horror film fan magazine

Fangoria is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. It is published four times a year by Fangoria Publishing, LLC and is edited by Phil Nobile Jr.

<i>Famous Monsters of Filmland</i> American film magazine

Famous Monsters of Filmland is an American genre-specific film magazine, started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman.

Tim Lucas is a film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher and editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog.

<i>Video Watchdog</i> Defunct bimonthly, digest size film magazine (1990-2017)

Video Watchdog was a bimonthly, digest size film magazine published from 1990 to 2017 by publisher/editor Tim Lucas and his wife, art director and co-publisher Donna Lucas.

Chris Alexander is a Canadian magazine editor, film critic, director, musician, composer, teacher and writer. Alexander was a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and was the editor-in-chief of Fangoria, an editor of American film website ComingSoon.net and a writer for the daily newspaper Metro News.

Michael Gingold is an American journalist, screenwriter, and former editor-in-chief of Fangoria magazine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dr. Gangrene</span>

Dr. Gangrene is a television horror host based in the Middle Tennessee area, played by actor/writer/producer Larry Underwood.

<i>The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates</i> 2008 studio album by Midnight Syndicate

The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates is the tenth album of the band Midnight Syndicate, released in 2008. The album consists of original music in band's orchestral, gothic, horror soundtrack-style inspired by the themes in the horror film, The Dead Matter.

For the meaning of videogram relating to audiovisual work or its storage medium, see video.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Troglodyte (band)</span> US death metal band

Troglodyte is a death metal band from Independence, Missouri. The band has a horror punk inspired look and writes songs about Bigfoot. They have released four studio albums so far.

<i>Carnival Arcane</i> 2011 studio album by Midnight Syndicate

Carnival Arcane is the 14th album by dark ambient band Midnight Syndicate, released in 2011. Featuring the blend of dark, orchestral, instrumental music and horror-inspired soundscape the band had become known for, the "dark carnival" theme of the album centers on a fictional, early-20th century traveling circus called The Lancaster Rigby Carnival.

<i>The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow</i> 2008 Canadian film

The Facts In the Case of Mister Hollow is a 2008 Short horror film that was directed by Rodrigo Gudiño and Vincent Marcone, based upon a story written by Gudiño. The short was first released on July 17, 2008, at the Fantasia Film Festival and has been re-released as part of several different DVDs, either as an extra feature or as one of several featured shorts.

Rodrigo Gudiño is a Mexican Canadian film director and editor, known for being the founder of the horror magazine and company Rue Morgue. He currently serves as the company's president and also helps coordinate and program for several of the festivals and events that Rue Morgue holds or sponsors. Gudiño previously worked as the magazine's editor-in-chief before leaving the position to focus on making films. His short films were collected into the DVD Curious Stories, Crooked Symbols in 2009.

<i>The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh</i> 2012 Canadian film

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh is a 2012 horror film directed by Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudiño. It was released in Russia on 13 June 2013 as Завещание and was later released direct to DVD on 30 July 2013 through Image Entertainment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dread Central</span> American website

Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews. It covers horror films, comics, novels, and toys. Dread Central has won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website four times and was selected as AMC's Site of the Week in 2008.

<i>Monsters of Legend</i> 2013 studio album by Midnight Syndicate

Monsters of Legend is the sixteenth studio album by the gothic horror instrumental band, Midnight Syndicate. Advertised as a tribute to the Golden Age of Horror, the packaging featured images from Universal Classic Monster films Bride of Frankenstein, Werewolf of London, and Dracula. The album featured the blend of dark orchestral music, sound effects, and audio storytelling that the band had become known for.

<i>Christmas: A Ghostly Gathering</i> 2015 studio album by Midnight Syndicate

Christmas: A Ghostly Gathering is the eighteenth album by the gothic horror instrumental band, Midnight Syndicate. The album features a mix of re-imagined Christmas carols and original compositions in a style similar to the band's other gothic, paranormal, and Halloween-themed releases. Midnight Syndicate founder and composer, Edward Douglas, said it's one of his favorite albums they've ever created.

Dejan Ognjanović is a contemporary Serbian horror author, literary critic, film critic, editor and a translator. He was the first in Serbia, and the Balkans, to write a doctoral dissertation on poetics of the horror genre. He was The Bram Stoker Award finalist in the category Short non-fiction (2022). He is a regular contributor to Rue Morgue magazine since 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Preston Fassel</span> American horror author and journalist

Preston Fassel is an author and journalist primarily known for his work in the horror, science fiction, and crime genres. His work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem magazine, and on Cinedump.com. He is the author of Remembering Vanessa, the first biography of actress Vanessa Howard, published in the Spring 2014 issue of Screem. From 2017 to 2020, he was a staff writer for Fangoria; in 2018, the magazine published his debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, as the first entry in their "FANGORIA Presents" imprint. The book received an overwhelmingly positive critical response, and was named one of the ten best horror books of 2018 by Bloody Disgusting.

References

  1. ↑ Rockoff, Adam (2015). "Crawling to Babylon". The Horror of It All. Scribner. p. 23. ISBN   978-1-4767-6183-1 . Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Rue Morgue Magazine. OCLC. OCLC   43828659.
  3. 1 2 Jones, Stephen, ed. (2014). "Selected Magazines § Rue Morgue". Best New Horror: 25th Anniversary Edition. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN   978-1-62873-818-6 . Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Rue Morgue Library". Rue-morgue.com.
  5. ↑ The 13th Annual Rondo Awards - Results. 2 March 2015
  6. ↑ The 14th Annual Rondo Awards - Results. 17 Feb 2016
  7. ↑ "About". Rue-Morgue.com. Marrs Media. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Contact Us". Rue-Morgue.com. Marrs Media. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Alexander, Dave (6 May 2010). "Interview with Rue Morgue's Dave Alexander" (video). Interviewed by Dark Lord Bunnykins. YouTube. Event occurs at 0:07. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Gary Pullin". Rue-Morgue.com. Marrs Media. Archived from the original on 30 April 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  11. ↑ Rockingham, Graham (3 July 2016). "Haunted Hamilton". The Hamilton Spectator.
  12. ↑ "HorrorBabble". YouTube.
  13. ↑ Squires, John (23 December 2016). "This Gnarly 'Black Christmas' Teddy Bear is All I Want for Christmas". Bloody Disgusting.
  14. ↑ Johnston, Rich (31 October 2016). "Be A Heretic At Thought Bubble With P M Buchan, Ben Templesmith And More". Bleeding Cool . Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  15. ↑ Wilner, Norman (21 December 2016). "Celebrating Film's Local Heroes of 2016". Now Toronto.
  16. ↑ Miska, Brad. "They Made an Annabelle Prank Video". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  17. ↑ "Montreal's Halloween Party Guide". CultMTL. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  18. ↑ Kay, Jeremy. "Frontières five team up on anthologies". Screen Daily . Retrieved 28 February 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.