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Inside this issue:
FRIGHT FROM THE FRINGE
Chris Hallock’s column introduces our readers to a broad spectrum of independent horror residing on the outskirts of the multiplex.
THE IT FACTOR
Joe Yanick weighs in on writer-director, David Robert Mitchell’s, critically acclaimed sexually-transmitted-ghost story, It Follows, with words from Mitchell.
THE DEVIL MADE US WATCH IT: THE RING
Alexandra West’s column considers The Ring, Gore Verbinski’s trend-setting 2002 J-Horror remake.
SUPERMANDALA
In light of the English-language release of his novel, Where the Bird Sings Best, 86-year-old counterculture hero, Alejandro Jodorowsky, might seem superhuman. Speaking with Diabolique, he reminds us that he’s only one man.
MOCTEZUMA’S REMEMBRANCE
Samm Deighan delivers a definitive historical account of the life and work of Mexican cult horror auteur, Juan López Moctezuma.
BLU MAGICK
Kat Ellinger’s column reviews the hottest vintage Euro-Horror Blu-Ray releases.
MASTERS OF REALITY
Alix Becq tells the strange-but-true story of how occultism has been wielded by artists, magicians, truth-seekers, and charlatans to influence society and culture — for better or worse.
PARTICIPATRIX
Matt Schimkowitz pulls back the many layers of The Wachowskis’ self-designed matrix of participatory film culture.
THE SCREAM MACHINE
Jake Whritner explores the fusion of computer screens and silver screens that has shaped what we now know as Internet Horror.
PLASTIC PRISON (PART II)
Does our anatomy shape our destiny? Joe Yanick goes beneath The Skin I Live In to answer this question and more in the second half of his two-part piece.