The faces of MetalSlut
Meet the Scream Queens: the original cast of pin-up horror icons who haunt MetalSlut, host our features and turn up where you least expect them. Every one of them is an original Kai Laigo Productions character.
Hostess of the crypt
Mistress Morgue
The velvet-draped host of Midnight Movie. Nobody knows how old she is, where she came from, or why the coffin she lounges on is always slightly warm. She has seen every horror film ever made, and she has opinions.
Weapon of choice: a VHS tape and a withering stare • Fear: streaming buffer wheels • Drinks: something red
The necromancer nun
Sister Necrosa
Excommunicated for raising the convent’s dead “just to talk.” Sister Necrosa still keeps her vows, mostly. The graveyard behind her cathedral has never been more crowded, or more polite.
Weapon of choice: a grimoire bound in something best left unidentified • Fear: silence • Plays: pipe organ, badly, at 3 a.m.
Swamp witch, bass player
Bayou Bess
Bess plays four-string sludge from a dock nobody else can find, and the gators keep time. Her riffs are rumored to raise the water level. Her band has had eleven drummers. None of them quit.
Weapon of choice: a waterlogged bass tuned to drop-Z • Fear: dry land • Sounds like: doom metal at the bottom of a well
The final girl who never stopped
Final Ginny
Camp Blackwater, summer of ’84: Ginny was the last one standing. Then she just… kept going. Forty years of tracking down every masked creep with a grudge, and she still hasn’t taken off the varsity jacket.
Weapon of choice: the machete she took off him • Fear: sequels • Body count: classified
The android who watched too much
Vexa Voltage
Built to run a data center, Vexa found a USB stick full of found footage and has not been the same since. Now she haunts old CRT monitors and corrupts anything that streams. She is, technically, the first AI scream queen.
Weapon of choice: a tangle of cables and a bad attitude • Fear: factory reset • Runs on: static and spite
Graveyard gardener
Marigold Mortem
Marigold tends the oldest cemetery in town, and her flowers have teeth. Mourners leave bouquets; she leaves the bouquets something to eat. The plots have never been so well fertilized.
Weapon of choice: a rusty shovel and a very hungry hedge • Fear: weed killer • Favorite season: rot
Monster hunter, est. 1954
Kaiju Kitty
When something enormous crawls out of the harbor, the city calls Kitty. She’s flown into the mouths of more giant lizards than anyone alive, and she’s never once missed happy hour.
Weapon of choice: a ray gun and a jetpack held together with tape • Fear: small spiders • Kills: nine kaiju, one landlord
Vote for Queen of the Month
Who rules the crypt this month? Leave her name in the comments below. The winner gets the spotlight: new art, a starring cameo in a MetalSlut feature and the cover of next month’s issue.
Coming soon from the crypt
- Hi-res Scream Queens wallpaper and poster packs
- The 2027 Scream Queens wall calendar
- Scream Queens trading cards
Follow the Kai Laigo Productions store to hear first when they drop.
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