Contents Inside the House of 1000 Corpses, featuring interviews with director Rob Zombie and cast members Karen Black, Sid Haig and Bill Moseley, plus cover artwork by Rob Zombie and Gary Pullin! Also inside: the first truly unwatchable film, August Underground; Image releases The Blood Collection; Best & Worst of 2002; The Definitive Guide to Horror Conventions Across North America; On Set With Freddy Vs. Jason, and more!

Contents From Horror Pulp to It Came From Outer Space: Rue Morgue talks to legendary fantasy writer Ray Bradbury. Plus Bradbury's top ten horrors! Also inside: on set of Freddy Vs. Jason; the art of Johnny Ace Studios; Coffin furnishings for your crypt!; a visit to Cocktail Hell with the Necro Tonz; the scoop on the sequel and prequel to Ginger Snaps, and much, much more!

Contents Director Eli Roth spills his guts on his debut film Cabin Fever; a look at the Sadist Cinema of Takashi Miike, creator of Audition and the notorious Ichi the Killer. Also inside: Ring, Beware the Book!; Tim Burton's new Twisted Toys; The Spectres - Rockabilly Macabre; Spaghetti Splatter; I Spit on Your Grave; 2003 Bram Stoker Nominees, and more!

Contents Day of the Dead Retrospective featuring interviews with director George A. Romero and
effects master Tom Savini! Also inside: Lucky McKee's Frankenstein-inspired
masterpiece May; Sick words with The Cramps; The 30 Days of Night of Steve Niles;
Fantasia 2003 Preview; Punk Goes Pitch Black, plus much more!

Contents 6th Anniversary Halloween Issue featuring legendary author/screenwriter Richard
Matheson on The Twilight Zone and more! Also Inside: Bruce Campbell, Don Coscarelli
and Joe Lansdale unwrap Bubba Ho-Tep; Wes Craven on The Hills Have Eyes; FanTasia
Festival Report; Travelogue of Terror. Plus: Horror Manga, McFarlane's Twisted Oz, Joe
Dante on The Howling, and Misfits Records.

Contents Australian filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig talk about Undead, their new zombie opus.


Coverage on Fear Without Frontiers, a new book from FAB Press with a chapter on the German krimis by Ken Hanke.


Article on Christmas-themed horror movies by Adam Rockoff.


Reports on the Toronto International Film Festival and the announced 24-hour Horror Channel.


Reviews of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Underworld, Identity, Blue Underground's Christopher Lee box set, Raw Meat, The Ghoul and It Came From Beneath the Sea and opinions on the soundtracks to Jeeper Creepers 2, Underworld and Cabin Fever.