Captain’s Log

“My heart burns there too.” My favourite time

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

To Eel And Back

This is Ceti Alpha V! Discover the untold story behind a legendary villain in new audio drama Star Trek: Khan

Motley Crew

Dungeons & Dragons ’ The Fallbacks star in their first comic series

Metalheads

Its Judgement Day for Declan Shalvey and Rory McConville as they launch Terminator: Metal

Daughter Of Darkness

Charlie Morningstar faces down hellish foes in Hazbin Hotel season two

X-tinction Event

Marvel marks Age Of Apocalypse’s 30th anniversary with new crossover Age Of Revelation

RED ALERT

SCI-FACT Universal Studios Florida held its first Halloween

HAYLEY GELFUSO

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND TIME-TRAVEL ROMANCE THE BOOK OF LOST HOURS

NEWSWARD Breaking Genre News!

A Knight Rider movie’s revving up from the

CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEAD 1941–2025

Remembering Doctor Who ’s champion of hard science

THE FINAL FRONTIER

MOVIE POSTER IMAGE ART/GETTY JOE CAROFF 1921–2025

FEARS OF A CLOWN

THE ORIGINS OF PENNYWISE THE DANCING CLOWN ARE UNEARTHED IN THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED PREQUEL SERIES IT: WELCOME TO DERRY

TAYLOUR PAIGE IS CHARLOTTE HANLON

What can you tell us about your character?

JOVAN ADEPO IS LEROY HANLON

What can you tell us about your character?

CHRIS CHALK IS DICK HALLORANN

Your character is established in the world of

BAD AS GOLD

AN UNOFFICIAL SHORT LETS THE LEPRECHAUN LOOSE AGAIN

MONSTER SQUAD

THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL… GUILLERMO DEL TORO HAS FINALLY REALISED HIS LIFELONG DREAM OF MAKING FR ANK ENSTEIN. SFX VISITS THE SET TO ASK THE MEXICAN AUTEUR AND HIS LEAD ACTORS OSCAR ISAAC, JACOB ELORDI, MIA GOTH AND CHRISTOPH WALTZ ABOUT BRINGING LIFE TO THE ULTIMATE CREATURE FEATURE

CREATURE FEATURES

RECREATING HAMMER’S ICONIC TAKE ON FRANKENSTEIN’S CREATURE

CALL ME BACK

THE GRABBER RETURNS! SFX MEETS THE DIRECTOR OF BLACK PHONE 2 TO TALK SEQUELS, GHOSTS, MASKS, AND ETHAN HAWKE

STAGE FRIGHTS

COMES TO THE WEST END IN A HAUNTING NEW PLAY

CREEPY COMICS

FROM SUPERNATURAL TO STRANGE TALES AND JUDGE DEATH, THIS YEAR’S SPOOKY SEASON COMICS ARE SCARIER THAN EVER

BACK TO THE UPSIDE DOWN 4

TAKE A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AS WE CELEBRATE SEASON FOUR OF STRANGER THINGS

TRICK OR TREAT

Back in season two, the bike-riding buddies of Stranger Things turned heads in the show when they arrived at school in an iconic Ghostbusters group costume. To commemorate this year’s spooky season, we uncovered a chat with the young cast where they discussed their favourite Halloween memories…

THE UNPUBLISHED SFX INTERVIEW

THE DUFFER BROTHERSTHE DUFFER BROTHERS

CURSE OF THE CREATURE

AFTER MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY, HOLLYWOOD STILL CAN’T LURE THE GILL-MAN BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN

NEW ORDER

THE ANNE RICE IMMORTAL UNIVERSE EXPANDS WITH NEW LORE IN . SFX VISITS THE SET IN MANCHESTER

JASON’S ALIVE...AGAIN!

FRIDAY THE 13TH ’S KILLER FINALLY RETURNS AS PART OF JASON UNIVERSE

HB-BIT

ART THE CLOWN LEVELS UP IN TERRIFIER: THE ARTCADE GAME

DROP ON BY THE CLOWN CAFE

ART THE CLOWN IS TERRORISING BOTH THE EAST AND WEST COAST AS TERRIFIER TAKES OVER THIS YEAR’S HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS

GOING UND UNDERGR UND

TWENTY YEARS AFTER IT TERRIFIED AUDIENCES, WE DISCUSS CLAUSTROPHOBIC CAVING HORROR THE DESCENT WITH LEAD ACTRESS SHAUNA MACDONALD

JOE HILL

The American author on how Friends inspired The One With A Dragon

Andrew Michael Hurley

The folk horror novelist still finds this writing business “excruciating”…

All That We See or Seem

If dreams can be shared, secrets can be stolen…

CAPTAIN AMERICA

A Tale Of Two Captains

DEADPOOL/BATMAN

Caped Crusader vs Mouthy Merc

BORDERLANDS 4

Shooting spree

HELL IS US

Whose bright Hadea was this?

JANUARY 1974

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

Crown Court “Destruct, Destruct”

Total Recall Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

HIM

Blood sport

GOOD BOY

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THE CONJURING: LAST RITES

★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 15

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY

Road trippy

THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 2

★★★ ☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 15

ALIEN: EARTH Season One

The Peter Pan principals

ISOLATED

Finn Families Woebegone

INVASION Season Three

Bore Of The Worlds

LEGO STAR WARS: REBUILD THE GALAXY – PIECES OF THE PAST

★★★★☆ UK/US Disney+, streaming now ► Showrunners

HAUNTED HOTEL Season One

Extra spirits in the mini bar

MARVEL ZOMBIES

★★★☆☆ UK/US Disney+, streaming now ► Showrunners

FOUNDATION Season Three

End of Empire

WEDNESDAY Season Two

It’s ooky to be kooky

DOCTOR WHO Season 13

Real horrorshow

UNCLE SAM

★★★☆☆ EXTRAS ★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 13 OCTOBER

BAD CHANNELS

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IN MY SKIN

Cut and taste

GORGO

★★★☆ EXTRAS ★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW!

NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE

Hideous Kinski

DEVIL IN THE DUST

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2025

SANE INSIDE INSANITY

★★★★ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2025

THE ASTRONAUT

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2025

THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK

★★★★☆ EXTRAS ★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW!

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Zombie Refresh Eaters

4K X FOUR

OLD MOVIES NOW AVAILABLE ON UHD

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Let us Bray

SPAWN

Long live the necroflesh

BABY BLOOD

★★★☆☆ EXTRAS ★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW!

MALPERTUIS

House Of Secrets

ROUND UP

Movies hitting shiny disc include Pixar’s ELIO

KING SORROW

Playing with fire

HEARTHSPACE

Bad neighbours

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA

Queer as folk tales

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks is MR Carey’s

BULLET TIME

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

ALSO OUT

As ever, there’s a teetering pile of other