NEWS WARP

FirstContact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Captain’s Log

Earth scum! We are now hiring for a

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

What Lurks Beneath

Why Night Swim is not just an “evil swimming pool movie”

A merican Horror Story

Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell are taking John Constantine on the road as they return to Hellblazer

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Trident Trio

Author Rick Riordan on how he ensured the Percy Jackson series got his stories right

Lunar Cycle

The Immortal Moon Knight and the new Power Man duke it out in this year’s Timeless

Nuclear Family

Louise Simonson and June Brigman celebrate Power Pack’s 40th anniversary

Back To Life

Al Ewing on bringing back the X-Men’s villain-turned-hero in Resurrection Of Magneto

SPACE AND TIME DOCTOR WHO

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF

Hell’s Bells!

Former YouTuber turns homegrown pilot into adult animated series Hazbin Hotel

Endgame

Chip Zdarsky asks what if Earth’s Mightiest Heroes were no more in Avengers: Twilight

GEORGIA SUMMERS

MEET THE FORMER TOR EDITOR BEHIND FANTASY NOVEL THE CITY OF STARDUST

ROBERT BUTLER 1927-2023

The first director onboard the Enterprise

TIME TEAM

NCUTI GATWA AND MILLIE GIBSON BEGIN THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME IN DOCTOR WHO

INSIDE THE SPACESHIP

PRODUCTION DESIGNER PHIL SIMS WELCOMES SFX TO THE TARDIS

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY

PHIL SIMS TALKS HOW THE DOCTOR WHO TEAM BROUGHT THE MEEP AND WR ARTH TO LIFE

A BUG'S LIFE

ROBERT STRANGE TALKS ABOUT BRINGING THE WRARTH TO LIFE

TOYROOM TREASURES

BOYS AND GIRLS COME OUT TO PLAY… ONCE DOCTOR WHO HAS SAVED THE DAY!

DESIGNING A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

HOW THE TER RIFYING MUMMY IN LOT NO 2 49 WAS BROUGHT (BACK) TO LIFE

INTO THE BUFFYVERSE

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER HAS R ISEN FROM THE GRAVE WITH NEW AUDIO DR AMA SLAYERS, FEATURING ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS

INSIDE NUMBER NINESTEIN

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! AS TERRAHAWKS HITS 40, JAMIE ANDERSON SHARES THE SECRETS OF HIS FATHER’S QUIRKIEST CREATION

THE A-Z OF THE EXORCIST

WE CELEBR ATE WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AND WILLIAM PETER BLATTY’S CLASSIC TALE OF POSSESSION, WHICH MARKED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ON 26 DECEMBER

KILLING JOKE

AS KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE TURNS 35, DIRECTOR STEPHEN CHIODO AND STAR GRANT CRAMER RETURN TO THE FUNHOUSE TO SHARE STORIES ABOUT A SCHLOCKY CULT CLASSIC

SHOUT OUT TO MY X

JIGSAW IS STILL PLAYING GAMES TWO DECADES LATER – THE TEAM LOOK BACK

NED BEAUMAN

Across the great divide: how a literary novelist won the Clarke Award

WONKA

Just the (golden) ticket

THE HERON

A Miyazaki masterclass

POOR T HINGS

The Stone Rises

THE END WE START FROM

▸RELEASED 19 January ▸12A | 106 minutes ▸Director

FREAKS VS THE REICH

▸RELEASED 12 January 15 | 141 minutes ▸Director

SCALA!!!

▸RELEASED 5 January 18 | 96 minutes ▸Directors

RAGING GRACE

▸RELEASED 29 December 15 | 100 minutes ▸Director

DOCTOR WHO

A big hand for David Tennant

GOOSEBUMPS

Smells Like Teen Spirits

MAYFAIR WIT CHES

If looks could kill

THE WINTER KING Season One

Monarch Of The Glum

LOT NO 249

▸UK BBC Two/iPlayer, streaming now ▸Writer/director Mark Gatiss

MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS

Where be monsters?

REBEL MOON PART ONE: A CHILD OF FIRE

We’ve got a bad feeling about this…

THE END OF CIVILIZ ATION

Opinions, Pole’s

JULES

▸RELEASED 29 December 2023 | 12A | Download

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Blackout lives matter

BLANK

RELEASED 8 January 2023 | 15 | Download

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 7+ | VOD

IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | NR | SVOD

THE EXORCIST UNTOLD

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | E | DVD/download

BABYLON 5

The five-year mission

HIGH TENSION

Bait and switchblade

MAUSOLEUM

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1983 | 15 | Blu-ray

MURDER OBSESSION

Daft Freda

ROUND UP

It’s two months since Halloween, which means a

THREE EIGHT ONE

Storytelling by numbers

EYE OF A LITTLE GOD

RELEASED 2 JANUARY 288 pages | Hardback/ebook Author

THE PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 512 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

FAEBOUND

The Remains Of The Fae

THE GLASS WOMAN

RELEASED 9 JANUARY 416 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

THIS WRETCHED VALLEY

RELEASED 16 JANUARY 304 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

MACHINE VENDETTA

Secrets and obfuscation

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

RELEASED 18 JANUARY 496 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

AVA ANNA ADA

RELEASED 18 JANUARY 272 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN

RELEASED 4 JANUARY 704 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

SO LET THEM BURN

RELEASED 16 JANUARY 400 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks: Grady Hendrix’s latest horror

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: CHANGES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 280 pages | Paperback Author

BLAKE’S 7 SERIES A PRODUCTION DIARY

Seven/Nation Tsunami

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more books we couldn’t quite fit

Sebastien de Castell

The man behind the Greatcoats series loves living on the edge…

WONDER WOMAN

The Powered-Lass View

TERRAHAWKS COMIC ANTHOLOGY

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Anderson Entertainment Writer Angus

MS MARVEL: THE NEW MUTANT

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writers Iman

DAREDEVIL

Better red than dead

THE FLASH

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Writer Si

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

Welcome To The Jungle

THE WICKER MAN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 48 minutes Director Anthony DP

RELIGION

Oh Lord, guide Thou our devout SFX readers on the path of exactitude as they ponder our posers. Amen

David Hut chinson

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy