Rue Morgue

It appears that Blogger is back to "normal" now, which means that I am now free again to act abnormal online.  That was quite an outage (although read-only mode still functioned for the most part)... I hadn't seen anything like it since I started using the service back in early February.  All I know is that the problem revolved around an "update gone awry", with the trouble beginning around 1:00 am Thursday, EDT. At any rate, the post on Wilfredo Lam has returned (although minus the comments unfortunately)... so it's time to move on.


I shall celebrate this rediscovered literary privilege with a spotlight on bloody terror, namely the cool horror review magazine and website, Rue Morgue.  This is the cover of the Jan / Feb 2011 magazine which I had purchased:

The girl reminds me of Regan from "The Exorcist", but it's not.


Rue Morgue is an informative romp through horror happenings in movies, books, video games, film festivals, conventions, etc.  Interesting subjects in this issue included a spotlight on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death" (in addition to the review on Christopher Smith's movie "Black Death"), and also a look at an opportunity hosted by the Austrian art collective Monochrom, to have a romantic interlude with your significant someone while trapped in a coffin for 15 minutes. And being filmed.  Ummm... someone just pass me Poe's book for now...  


The website includes other goodies such as a store, a horror themed radio station, contests, and lots of links of course.  I wish my family had had an information source such as Rue Morgue back in the 1970's.  A little forewarning before we decided to go see "The Exorcist" would have been helpful.