Nightmare Picture Theatre is the first CD from the new music label wing of Canada’s excellent horror mag, Rue Morgue. Like its parent publication, the CD is a smart, classy affair – the all-instrumental compositions by Toronto musician James Fisher are effective mood pieces built around its accompanying stage show’s story, which concerns a kid tormented by nightmares. It’s creepy stuff, full of dissonant, metallic clangs, murmuring spookhouse organ, and other middle-of-the-night noises, and if I listened to NPT in my shack with all the lights off and a cold December wind whistling in the eaves, it’d probably raise a bumper crop of goose pimples on the back of my neck. Fisher is a talented composer with an ear for disturbing sound constructs, and he’d do well to ship this disc to Hollywood, where he could probably make a tidy profit scoring horror flicks from here on out.