RUE MORGUE was founded in October 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño as an independent 20 page black-and-white zine, and distributed by hand in Toronto, Canada. Rodrigo envisioned RUE MORGUE as a unique publication that would explore and celebrate the wider world of horror; not merely movies, but also horror in art, pop culture and history.
Rodrigo came up with the idea for RUE MORGUE exactly six months before the first issue hit the streets, and just prior to embarking on a weekly horror movie viewing of roughly one hundred of the most influential horror movies made between the period of 1950 and 1980. The screenings became the seeds of the RUE MORGUE community: fans, writers, screenwriters, filmmakers and musicians brought together by a love of the horror genre.
Currently RUE MORGUE is one of the leading horror genre magazines in the world, and hosts a series of offshoot events, including the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear Canadian National Horror Expo; Rue Morgue Cinema, Rue Morgue Radio; Rue Morgue Presents CineMacabre and Rue Morgue annual Halloween events.
RODRIGO GUDIÑO
Rodrigo grew up in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico and later in Mississauga, Canada, the result of which was several years of culture shock. He has a degree in Literary Studies and Philosophy from the University of Toronto and is the President of Marrs Media Inc., founder of RUE MORGUE Magazine, RUE MORGUE Radio, RUE MORGUE's CineMacabre Movie Nights, The RUE MORGUE House of Horror, and coordinator of RUE MORGUE's Annual Festival of Fear and Halloween Party events. In 2005, Rodrigo directed Nightmare Picture Theatre for the stage. He recently wrote and directed the award-winning films The Eyes of Edward James and The Demonology of Desire for RUE MORGUE Cinema.
JOVANKA VUCKOVIC
Jovanka is a reanimated corpse stitched together with body parts liberated from fresh graves and recently employed gallows. As a young ghoul she used to steal Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft books from the library and fuelled her childhood insomnia by watching horror films on late-night television. Her formal education is in Physical Anthropology. Her background also includes a five-year stint in visual effects artistry where she won a Gemini award in 2000 for Best Visual Effects. Jovanka discovered her true calling while writing under various pseudonyms for RUE MORGUE and quickly became Rodrigo's first and only apprentice. After a three-year interment as Managing Editor at the magazine, she moved into her final resting place as Editor-In-Chief of RUE MORGUE Magazine, where she continues to explore the limitless boundaries of horror in culture and entertainment.
DAVE ALEXANDER
Dave was born and raised in Deadmonton, Alberta - where things blacker and more pungent than oil reside beneath the Wheat Fields of Madness. Dave grew up obsessing over dinosaurs, drawing monsters and compulsively watching a double bill of the original Dracula and Frankenstein that his parents taped off late-night TV on a VCR the size of a Hyundai. Years later he attended the University of Alberta, working at the student newspaper as Arts & Entertainment Editor, then Editor-in-Chief, and managed to complete a four-year Film Studies degree in six years (graduating magna scum laude, of course). Afterwards, he worked full-time as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines across North America, made award-winning short films and did unspeakable things to corpses. He also developed an unhealthy crush on RUE MORGUE, and after freelancing for the mag for a couple of years, was invited to join the coven as Managing Editor.
MONICA S. KUEBLER
Monica is an accomplished writer, two-time Go-Go Ghoul and once-regular smut columnist who went legit in November 2003 and joined the crew at the RUE MORGUE House of Horror full-time as Assistant Editor/Webmistress. Monica confesses to harbouring a terribly unhealthy (and somewhat creepy) obsession with words, she often draws them forth in the dark of night to manipulate and exsanguinate them, using their then spent and pliant carcasses to her own literary ends. See, we warned you. Often found lurking beneath an unruly pile of horror novels, Monica pours her blood, sweat and acidic tears into the Ninth Circle department, all while keeping that spooky third eye of hers on the various RUE MORGUE websites. Be afraid, Monica is probably watching you too!
GHOULISH GARY PULLIN
Gary is RUE MORGUE's Art Director and resident scribbling deviation of nature. He cut his teeth on The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Universal Monsters, and the films of Vincent Price. Though Ghoulish Gary actually acquired his first set of markers from a priest at the tender age of six, he immediately employed them to do the devil's work by devoting his craft to monsters and villains. Gary brings a broad range of artistic influences to the RUE MORGUE chopping block, including Ralph Steadman, Crumb, Charles Burns and Basil Gogos. Gary is the man behind RUE MORGUE's now infamous logo and currently heads up all aspects of RM's lurid layout and design.
JUSTIN ERICKSON
Justin is the newest addition to the RUE MORGUE gallery of ghouls. Before coming on board, Justin toiled as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer collaborating with Chad Michael Ward and contributing work to such companies as White Wolf Publishing. Growing up with a graveyard as a playground, Justin developed an unhealthy appetite for monsters, horror movies and human flesh.
AUDRA JACOMBS
Audra was once known for soaking her friends in liberal amounts of stage blood before coming to RUE MORGUE via an internship in early 2005. Her background in event planning and makeup effects (which she put to use at the annual Festival of Fear and RUE MORGUE Cinema) proved this cute but creepy little lady so indispensable that when her internship expired we decided to chain her to a desk and keep her for evermore. Don't weep for her, we gave her a promotion! Now officially RUE MORGUE's Office Manager, she's here to answer all your subscription-related questions. And we even think we've finally got that biting thing under control.
MARCO PECOTA
Marco is the Vice President and financial controller of Marrs Media Inc. He also owns a film production company called Veni Vidi Vici Motion Pictures which has produced several music videos and award-winning films, including The Eyes of Edward James, The Demonology of Desire and Pink.
JODY INFURNARI
Jody met Rodrigo early on in the history of RUE MORGUE. He was the company's first ever employee and, as he is fond of telling people, he was the first to lay eyes on RUE MORGUE's premiere issue in 1997 even before Rodrigo did. Jody doesn't quite know how he ended up being the marketing/advertising manager of a horror magazine, but he became so good at it that he now owns a part of the company. A resident of Port Perry, Ontario, Jody is a hillbilly at heart and hates driving downtown.
BRAD ABRAHAM
Brad has been a regular contributor to RUE MORGUE since 1998, his work has also appeared in Rev and Dreamwatch magazines. As a screenwriter, his credits include the Sci-Fi Channel Miniseries RoboCop: Prime Directives, the children's series I Love Mummy and the upcoming New Zealand splatter film Hell For Breakfast.
EMMA ANDERSON
Emma left England for Canada nearly ten years ago and has never looked back. Her creative fashion sense never ceases to amaze and she always seems to be smiling... or is it leering? Emma reads suspense and horror lit in her spare time, owns a Chihuahua named Burton and her favourite movies include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Zombie and, of course, anything by George Romero.
STUART FEEDBACK ANDREWS
Stuart was born in Liverpool, England in the same maternity ward where some of the more cheerful members of the Beatles first came into being. But unlike his loveable moptop brethren, Feedback did not enter the world kicking and screaming, he came in black and blue and barely breathing, with the umbilical cord wrapped firmly around his neck so it's no surprise that he ended up writing for RUE MORGUE. Feedback produces weekly interview segments for RUE MORGUE Radio and forms one half of The Caustic Critics. Feedback also hosts CKLN Radio's weekly film show Cinephobia and is the director of the infamous sub cult classic, The Goldfarb Variations, the film that does for latent homosexuality what Gary Glitter did for child pornography.
JOHN W. BOWEN
Aside from penning RUE MORGUE's monthly It Came From Bowen's Basement column, John is a film reviewer, occasional feature writer, aspiring (unproduced) screenwriter, aging rocker and full-time curmudgeon. Passions: the Phantasm films, Beethoven, The Donnas, The Supersuckers, Shostakovich. Aliases: El Borracho Grande, Sir Drinksalot, Onan the Barbarian. Known accomplices: The Pariahs (thirtysomething indie rock gawds - arguably Toronto's loudest and drunkest band). Usual haunts: Toronto's legendary El Mocambo (w/The Pariahs), Toronto's almost equally legendary Brass Rail Tavern. CAUTION: Although subject is unarmed and very skinny, he is reputed to have been in a foul mood since 1989.
GARY BUTLER
Gary is a Toronto-based freelance journalist specializing in arts and entertainment culture. He is also the host of RUE MORGUE Magazine's Blood In Four Colours column. As he believes in karmic payback, and as he now has a child of his own, Gary regrets teaching his friend's four-year-old daughter how to walk around the house in a zombie-like state mumbling 'Redrum' back in '97. Well, sorta regrets it.... When he has free time, Gary continues to perfect his epitaph; trust him it'll be worth the wait.
PAUL CORUPE
Paul watches far too many movies, typically very bad ones. When not unearthing vintage horror, drive-in schlock and exploitation oddities for RUE MORGUE, Paul plumbs the sleazy depths of Canadian B-films on his own website, Canuxploitation.com.
JAMES "TWITCHY" FISHER
Known at Rue Morgue parties as playfully ghastly host Twitch Cuvier ("The man who tweeeetches" - Jovanka), Fisher also illustrates the magazine’s monthly "The Disfigures of Speech." Apart from creating macabre imagery, Fisher de-composes unsettling music, including the soundtrack reinterpretation of the Quay Brothers' short films, titled Nightmare Picture Theatre.
TOMB DRAGOMIR
Tomb is gatekeeper to The Audio Drome and has an unnatural lust for horror punk, psychobilly and creepy soundtrack scores. Cinematically, Tomb gets stiff with the Living Dead, digs weird new ideas and likes a good laugh as much as a great scare. He is the voice behind RUE MORGUE Radio, and on a mission to save souls... with scary movies and rot 'n' roll music!
THE GORE-MET
The Gore-Met cut his teeth on Ultraman, Godzilla and all things horror on television in the early '70s, and was on a steady course until the advent of home video in the early '80s. After a double bill of I Spit On Your Grave and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre left him entirely unhinged, The Gore-met has spent the years since in search of bigger, better and more obscure schlock. Sitting through many a crapbomb so you don't have to, The Gore-met strives to deliver the goods on those forgotten and ignored films, both new and old.
LIISA LADOUCEUR
Liisa, like all good goth girlies, loves vampire stories, writes poetry and still owns a hair crimper. She's a professional music journalist and former 'zine editor who's interviewed almost all her teen idols (c'mon Andrew Eldritch!) and go-go danced for Porno For Pyros and the Flaming Lips. She started writing for RUE MORGUE about goths and... well, is still writing about goths! Her column, The Blood Spattered Guide, can be heard weekly on RUE MORGUE RADIO. Her dream dinner dates are Poppy Z. Brite and Jack Skellington.
LAST CHANCE LANCE
Lance had been begging for a chance to appear in the magazine for years until one day, RUE MORGUE finally acquiesced. He figured it took a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to happily sit through the bottom bin movies no one else could stomach. In addition to his column, Last Rites, he also contributes film reviews and features on more crap that only he could have a taste for.
ANDREW LEE
Andrew is the 17-year-old genius who invented 68-sided dice and has made a comfortable living from the patent ever since. He spends his time between Tokyo, Japan and Toronto playing video, board, card, RPG and LARP games in an attempt to once and for all destroy his brain. His hobbies include stalking black-capped chickadees and he has the largest collection of Chinese noodle wrappers in the Western Hemisphere. His main goal in life is to discover where the letter 'S' comes from.
AARON VON LUPTON
Aaron grew up on comic books, a stack of Alice Cooper records, and every crappy horror movie obtainable in his hometown mecca of unemployment known as Sudbury, Ontario. Here in Toronto, Aaron's obsessions remain the same '80s horror films, Japanese movie monsters, horror punk, and gore-grind - mindless entertainment is the highest form of art for this Catholic boy. He works a variety of boring jobs, and was a student of the University of Toronto for too long. A long-time resident of the Audio Drome, Aaron is RUE MORGUE's resident metal and horror punk expert.
JOSEPH O'BRIEN
Joseph writes movies, television and comics. When he's not doing that, he writes about movies, television and comics. His screenwriting credits include the thriller Papertrail, starring Michael Madsen and the late Chris Penn, and the television miniseries RoboCop: Prime Directives. His first published work in comics, Revolution on the Planet of the Apes, garnered him a nomination for the prestigious Shuster Award for Outstanding Writer of 2006, and his short horror fiction can be found in two award-winning anthologies, Queer Fear and Queer Fear II. He's been contributing to RUE MORGUE since its fifth issue and plans to be around for its 500th.
SEAN PLUMMER
Sean is the underappreciated, underpaid and undead editor of Access Magazine (www.accessmag.com), but he gets his jollies writing for RUE MORGUE now that he realizes that cruising high schools is just plain wrong. He pledges allegiance to all things black and white, and his favourite horror films include Curse of the Demon, Them! and The Thing From Another World. He has interviewed Clive Barker twice and blesses the man for speaking in paragraphs.
VULNAVIA WRICK
Vulnavia is a strange girl. One fateful day during her adolescence, she renamed herself (after an obscure screen character, can you guess who?). She found home and heart at RUE MORGUE, but only graces them with her ghostly presence from time to agonizingly long time.
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