| In this month's 64-page
bumper issue of Shivers
 Buffy Make-Up Part 2
• Greg Solomon, the talented Optic Nerve make-up artist who creates
Buffy’s monstrous enemies, explains exactly how Adam was made, plus
the genesis of the sinister Gentlemen... With exclusive
pictures from Greg Solomon's archive!
 The
Mummy Returns
• We trace the roots of the new Horror action blockbuster. This sequel
stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, joined by WWF superstar The Rock as the
Scorpion King! Plus a pull-out Poster version of our
cover: Fraser & Weisz vs.The Rock & Arnold Vosloo!
 Battle of the Werewolves
• Twenty years on, we compare two great Horror classics – John
Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante's The
Howling. Alec Worley asks: which one is the biggest scare, and what
happened to the werewolf genre?
 Phantom of the Paradise
• Part 1 of our look at the making of Brian de Palma’s oddly timeless
1974 spoof – arguably Horror’s scariest Rock Opera – as we talk
with some of the stars, including Jessica Harper, Paul Williams and William
Finley, plus producer Ed Pressman
Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to
Casablanca
• How a charismatic German actor begame the first bona fide Horror star
with his performances in the classic Cabinet of Dr Caligari and The
Man Who Laughs
The Forsaken
• We meet Phina Oruche, who plays Rupert Giles’s girl-friend in
Buffy and now gets to star as a vampire in this new Horror road movie
alongside Kerr Smith and Jonathan Schaech
Frost is Faust
• British actor Mark Frost takes the Faustian role of a monster superhero
in Brian Yuzna’s barnstorming new version of, well, Faust. We join
him behind the scenes for tales of nudity, cannibalism and the ‘big red
rubber condom’
Plus our
regular sections:
- Eleven pages of Horror Reviews
• Books: Tim Lebbon's excellent As the Sun
Goes Down, plus Peter Straub’s Magic Terror and Mark Z Danielewski's
House of Leaves
• Video / DVDs: The terrifying Japanese
horror film Ring arrives on video and DVD, plus Funny Games and Neil
Jordan’s murky parable In Dreams plus an
overview of the exclusive Horror DVDs only available from outside the UK
• Films: More Japanese Horror with
Audition and a low-budget British chiller called The Hole
• TV Reviews: More new season episodes of
Buffy and Angel...
- News by Alan Jones
New roles for Christian Bale, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes, the latest on
Wes Craven’s Jekyll and Hyde and how Brian Singer will treat the
new TV version of Battlestar Galactica
- Opinion:
Kim Newman sets the record straight about Vlad the Impaler - who wasn’t a
vampire!
- In The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt takes afternoon tea with Ray Harryhausen and some
little monsters
- The Fright of
Your Life: Jonathan Rigby examines another classic scare from Horror
film history. This month, OAP Horror in The Brotherhood of Satan
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