STAFF
Rodrigo Gudiño
Monica S. Kuebler
Gary Pullin
Jessa Sobczuk
Jody Infurnari PH: 905-985-0430 FX: 905-985-4195 E:
jody@rue-morgue.com
dave alexander
trevor tuminski
Justin Erickson
Liisa ladouceur
Marco Pecota
Ankixa Risk
edward hutchinson kate rundle
CONTRIBUTORS E
Sitting (L-R): Jody Infurnari, Marco Pecota, Dave Alexander, Rodrigo Gudiño. Standing (L-R): Gary Pullin, Monica S. Kuebler, Last Chance Lance, Liisa Ladouceur, Stuart F. Andrews, Tomb Dragomir, Trevor Tuminski, Justin Erickson, Ankixa Risk and Jessa Sobczuk.
veryone knows that 666 is the Number of the Beast; many conspiracy types hold an esoteric belief that everything in the universe is connected to the number 23; any Misfits fan grins at the mention of 138; and 13 is the unluckiest number of ’em all, right? We place a lot of importance on digits; in these pages, for example, we often use dates as an excuse to do retrospectives – tenth, 25th, 30th, 50th anniversaries are
commonplace – and now, in our 13th year, we’re celebrating 100 issues of Rue Morgue. Given the current print media turmoil that sees well-established publications going to the grave, that number has particular meaning. As we enter triple digits, we wanted to say thanks for the support with the most ambitious issue we’ve ever
assembled. Not only will you see a few new columns throughout the magazine – including news briefs (called “Entrails” – thanks, April!), Monica’s Library of the Damned and Tortured Taglines (John Bowen’s hilarious idea) – we’re giving you an amazing free downloadable music compilation that our newest editor, Trevor, spearheaded with the help of Rue Morgue Radio’s Tomb and Liisa, and Ankixa from
rue-morgue.com; Gary has curated a gallery of original works that he commissioned for this issue (our own artists, including James “Disfigures of Speech” Fisher, contributed pieces too); and Justin almost went mad performing design miracles to bring together our comprehensive 13 Years of Fear retrospective. That last one is fortified with, not just a whack of insightful in- terviews (30!), but all kinds of supplementary info (a chart, graph and timeline – more numbers!) to help illus- trate the genre’s recent trajectory. Hopefully, you’re getting an idea of the huge scope of this issue, but, more importantly, an awareness of the
team that puts it together and goes above and beyond time after time. Whether it’s Stuart, Pedro, James Grainger or A.S. Berman turning around copy on short notice, James Burrell bringing in his personal archive of Hammer images for the cover story he worked so hard on, office manager Jessa fact-checking and taking care of us while we’re working a sixteen-hour production day, or just knowing that Claire, Paul, Sean, Aaron Von Lupton and The Gore-met can always be counted on to deliver timely, compelling stories. Plus, behind the scenes there’s Jody, who could sell a back page ad to a grizzly bear; Marco, who makes sure the tax man doesn’t repossess the dun- geon; David Daniloff, who plans our eccentric events, and, of course, RM prez Rodrigo, whose black magic mojo holds it all together and charts the course of the company through these turbulent publishing times. It seems only appropriate to end with some stats from our first 100 issues (compiled by Rue Morgue’s resi-
dent statistician, Last Chance Lance). Check this out: since 1997 we’ve taken you to 85 Travelogue locations, writ- ten about 312 games, reviewed 1125 books and 1634 CDs, given you the goods on 3457 movies and conducted a staggering 765 interviews. That’s a helluva lot of horror love from a committed bunch of genre-philes. So take a look above at Rue Morgue’s core staff and the RM Radio gang, then shift your eyes to all the contributor names in the right-hand column that are also part of this family. It goes without saying that there’s strength in numbers, and with the tireless (and Rondo Award-winning) Rue Crew we’ve got now, I feel like we could move mountains. Okay, maybe after we retire to the belfry for a short rest first...
dave@rue-morgue.com
BRAD ABRAHAM STUART F. ANDREWS A.S. BERMAN JOHN W. BOWEN PHIL BROWN JAMES BURRELL PEDRO CABEZUELO KEITH CARMAN PAUL CORUPE EVAN DAVIES TOMB DRAGOMIR JAMES FISHER PAUL GAITA HANNAH GARCES -SLOANE THE GORE-MET JAMES GRAINGER
MARK R. HASAN CLAIRE HORSNELL JAMES KING LAST CHANCE LANCE JASON LAPEYRE MARIE-ÈVE LARIN ANDREW LEE AARON VON LUPTON MATHEW MARIGOLD TOM MES JASON PICHONSKY SEAN PLUMMER STACIE PONDER APRIL SNELLINGS ERIC VEILLETTE JUSTINE WARWICK
RUE MORGUE #100 would not have been possible with- out the valuable assistance of: Mitch Davis, Audra Ja- combs, Tim Jacobus, Dan Karcher, Joe Moe, Robert Simpson, Mary-Beth Hollyer, Al McMullan and The Steeltown Swamp Monster.
Design by Gary Pullin
Rue Morgue Magazine is published monthly (with the exception of Febru- ary) and accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photos, art or other materials. Freelance submissions accompanied by S.A.S.E. will be seriously considered and, if necessary, returned.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Canada Magazine Fund, toward our editorial costs. RUE MORGUE Magazine #100 ISSN 1481 – 1103 Agreement No. 40033764 Entire contents copyright MARRS MEDIA INC. 2010. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN CANADA.
Photo by Mathew Marigold
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