FANGORIA #313 doesn’t hit the shelves or arrive in your mailbox till next month, but we’ve got the first peek at the covers and the full contents to share with you now! Yes, another pair of covers, both spotlighting Tim Burton’s eagerly awaited interpretation of the classic Gothic soap DARK SHADOWS, with Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins on the front and artist Mark Crow’s interpretation of Helena Bonham Carter’s Dr. Julia Hoffman on the back.

The issue features interviews with Burton, Carter and producer Richard D. Zanuck on their SHADOWS update, plus actress Marie Wallace on the original series. We also celebrate another Gothic pioneer, Edgar Allan Poe, interviewing actor John Cusack on THE RAVEN and the creators of the indie anthology TALES OF POE; continue our look back at Ken Russell’s GOTHIC by talking with actor Julian Sands; visit the set of the much-awaited MOTHER’S DAY remake; chat with Robin Hardy about THE WICKER TREE; sit down with actress Jenny Agutter to get her AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON memories; find out how THE THEATRE BIZARRE has terrorized the world from director/producer David Gregory; and much more. Head down past the covers for the full details!

GUTS

FEATURE: “THE THEATRE BIZARRE” The shock omnibus has literally knocked out international audiences.

INTERVIEW: JENNY AGUTTER Love meant never having to say you’re furry for the “American Werewolf in London” actress.

ON SET: “MOTHER’S DAY” The setting is more civilized in this remake, but what goes on inside it sure isn’t.

PREVIEW: “THE RAVEN” Everyone loves digging into Edgar Allan Poe, especially John Cusack, playing the author as detective.

RETROSPECTIVE: “GOTHIC,” PART TWO Actor Julian Sands was willingly swept away into Ken Russell’s cinematic dementia.

INTERVIEW: MARIE WALLACE She wore many faces—most of them crazed—as she took multiple roles in TV’s “Dark Shadows.”

PREVIEW: “DARK SHADOWS”: HELENA BONHAM CARTER Her on- and offscreen partnership with Tim Burton now leads her to Collinwood.

PREVIEW: “SOUTH TEXAS BLUES,” PART FOUR More of our advance peek at Christopher P. Garetano’s “Chainsaw” comic.

PREVIEW: “DARK SHADOWS”: TIM BURTON He’s done ghosts, apes and a headless horseman, so it’s about time he tackled vampires.

PREVIEW: “DARK SHADOWS”: RICHARD D. ZANUCK A producing career highlighted by “Jaws” now sees him entering the world of fangs.

PREVIEW: “TERROR OF DRACULA” As the title suggests, this grassroots feature wants to put the fear back into bloodsucking.

INTERVIEW: RONNIE SCRIBNER As a junior “ ’Salem’s Lot” ghoul, he elicited TV terror before his teens.

PREVIEW: “TALES OF POE” Indie filmmakers Bart Mastronardi and Alan Rowe Kelly wring new twists on 19th-century stories.

DIARY OF THE DEB: “WON TON BABY!” In a Chinese restaurant, Debbie discovers some serious bad taste.

PREVIEW: “THE WICKER TREE” Robin Hardy returns to pagan territory, but this is no mere rehash of “The Wicker Man.”

INTERVIEW: PATTY McCORMACK Her perfectly evil child in “The Bad Seed” was a model for decades of bad kids to follow.

LIFE IN THE BOX: “HELLRAISER” The first installment of a multipart chat with Doug Bradley recalls his first Cenobite of Clive Barker’s mythology.

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: PATRICK REA Pulling together a feature involving a hungry monster and a raging storm was quite a “Nailbiter.”

GRAVY

FIRST RITES Learning to love the “Shadows”

POSTAL ZONE They moon over monochrome

MONSTER INVASION Previews of “The Devil’s Carnival,” “Lovely Molly” and “The Fields”

THE TRASH COMPACTOR Before Freddy invaded dreams, there was “The Slayer”

CRYPT LIT Our new column devoted to vintage written horror debuts with “The Room in the Tower”

THE VIDEO EYE OF DR. CYCLOPS Reviews of “The Innkeepers,” “The Divide,” “Deadheads,” “The Girl in Room 2A” and others

THE PIT AND THE PEN OF BERT I. GORDON All’s Welles that ends Welles

NIGHTMARE LIBRARY Reviews of Robert Jackson Bennett’s “The Troupe,” Howard J. Ford’s “Surviving ‘The Dead,’ ” etc.

CLASSIFIED AD VAULT

DEAD FORMAT Are you up to snuff?

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