The magazine cover uses design elements like font, images, and color scheme to target horror fans. The masthead uses a sharp red font and images of a creature with glowing eyes holding a bloodied knife to represent the horror genre. The main cover line "Splatter House" in an abnormal yellow font connects to the creature image to indicate a focus on gore. Additional smaller lines and three horror movie character images are included to attract readers while allowing the main elements to stand out. An electric blue backdrop splattered with blood alongside the colors red and yellow are used to further the gory theme.

1. Horror magazine,
textual analysis

2. Date line
Mast head
Main image
Colour scheme
Main Cover line
Other cover lines
Other images
Barcode

3. Masthead:
THE MASTHEAD FOR THE FANGORIA MAGAZINE S
IN A SHARP RED FONT. THE COLOUR RED
CONNOTES DANGER AND GORE AND THIS
REPRESENTS TO THE AUDIENCE THIS IS A MAGAZINE
OF THE GENRE HORROR. THE FONT IS ALSO VERY
SHARP EDGES ON THE ‘F’ AND ‘A’ THE SHARP
EDGES ALSO CONNOTE THE IDEA OF DANGER AS
SHARP EDGES HAVE THE ABILITY TO HURT PEOPLE
AND THIS ADDS A SENSE OF THRILL TO THE
MAGAZINE WHEN ADDED UP WITH THE MAIN
IMAGES AND STORIES, THIS IDEA OF THRILL WILL
ATTRACT HORROR MOVIE FANS TO HE MAGAZINE
AS IT WILL REMIND OF THE ADRENALINE RUSH THEY
ENJOY GETTING FROM A HORROR FILM OF AN
SUBGENRE WEATHER IS PSYCHOLOGICAL OR
SPLATTER. LOTS OF EFFECTS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO
TEXT TO MAKE IT STAND OUT AGAINST THE
MAGAZINE AND ALMOST LOOK LIKE IS JUMPING
OF THE PAGE, THIS HELPS ADD TO THE THRILLING
ELEMENT OF HE MAGAZINE AS IT MAKES THE
MASTHEAD STAND OUT IN A BOLD WAY.

4. Main image:
THE MAIN IMAGE IS OF A CARTOON HORROR FIGURE. THE NVC OF THE
CARTOON IS VERY FIERCE AS HE IS LOOKING DOWN AT SOMETHING R
SOMEONE WHICH IS SUGGESTING POWER AND THIS CONTRAST WITH THE
GLOWING GREEN COLOUR OF HIS EYES WHICH IS NOT A NORMAL EYE
COLOUR, SUGGESTING THE CREATURE HAS THE ABILITY TO USE HIS UNNATURAL
LOOKS T INTIMIDATE AND SCARE PEOPLE WHICH WILL ATTRACT HORROR FANS
TO THE MAGAZINE AS IT CLEARLY SHOWS HE MAGAZINE IS OF THE HORROR
GENRE. THE CREATURE IS USING TO PROPS IN THE IMAGE ONE BEING A MASK
TO COVER HIS FACE AND THE OTHER PROP IS A KNIFE COVERED IN BLOOD.
THE MASK IS COVERING THE CREATURES FACE AND CONNOTES HE HAS
SOMETHING TO HIDE CREATING A ELEMENT OF THRILL TO AUDIENCE ALSO
THIS IS ADDED WITH THE PROP OF THE KNIFE AS ITS COVERED IN BLOOD
SUGGESTING TO AN AUDIENCE ‘SPLATTERHOUSE’ HAS A HIGH ELEMENT OF
GORE WHICH CONNOTES ITS SUB-GENRE TO BE SPLATTER. THE CHARACTER IN
THIS IMAGE IS NO A HUMAN THEREFORE CAMERA LIGHTING IS NOT AN
ELEMENT BUT HOWEVER THEIR HAS BEEN SOME HIGHLIGHTING AROUND THE
CREATURES FACE WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE USE OF THE MASK AS THE CREATURE
IS HIDING HIS IDENTITY. THE HIGH KEY HIGHLIGHTING AS CONNOTES THE IDEA
OF POWER THAT THE CREATURE HAS SUGGEST TO THE AUDIENCE HE IS THE
AUTHORITY FIGURE IN SPLATTERHOUSE THEREFORE HOPING IN PERSUADES
THEM TO WHAT TO READ ABOUT IN AND THROUGH THIS BUY THE MAGAZINE.

5. Date-line
THE DATE-LINE OF THE MAGAZINE IS PRESENTED ON THE
FAR LEFT NEXT TO THE MASTHEAD SO IT’S THE FIRST
THING THE BUYS CAN SEE WHEN THEY LOOK AT THE
MAGAZINE STACKED UP ON A SHELF. THE DATELINE IS
ALSO PUT HERE SO IS OUT OF HE WAY OF THE COVER
LINES AND INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S INSIDE THE
MAGAZINE AND THE EDITOR HAS DONE THIS SO I
DOESN’T SPOIL THE PERSUADE DESIGN ON THE FRONT
COVER TO GET AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO BUY THE
MAGAZINE.

6. Main cover-line
THE MAIN-COVERLINE OF THIS MAGAZINE IS THE WORD
‘SPLATTER HOUSE’ THIS IS PRESENTED IN VERY
ABNORMAL YELLOW FONT. THE FONT MAKES THE
LETTERS STAND OUT SHARPLY LIKE THE MASTHEAD SO IT
THEREFORE AGAIN CONNOTES THE IDEA OF DANGER
THE ‘O’ IN THE WORD ‘HOUSE’ IS ALSO REPLACED WITH
THE MASK ON HE CREATURE IN THE MAIN IMAGE THIS
CONNECTS THE MAIN IMAGE AND THE MAIN COVER
LINE FOR THE AUDIENCE AND SHOWS THE MAIN COVER
LINE IS ABOUT THE GORY CREATURE THIS CONNOTES
THE IDEA THIS MAGAZINE ISSUE IS BASED AROUND
GORE AND THEIR FORE WILL ATTRACT SPLATTER AND
SLASHER HORROR MOVIE FANS.

7. Other cover-lines
THE OTHER COVER-LINES ARE PRESENTED MAINLY IN THE
SAME FONT AS THE MAIN TO STICK WITH THE COLOUR
SCHEME OF THE MAGAZINE, HOWEVER THEY ARE IN
SMALLER AND LESS SHOCKING TEXTS. THIS CONNOTES
TO THE AUDIENCE THAT THESE COVER LINES ARE NOT
AS IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE MAGAZINE AS THE
MAIN. THIS IS ALSO SHOWN AS THEY ARE PLACED
EITHER AT THE TOP OF THE BOTTOM OF THE MAGAZINE
AS THE MAGAZINE DOES NOT HAVE A LEFT THIRD. AND
THIS HELPS TO ALLOW THE MAIN IMAGE AND MAIN
COVERLINE TO BE THE MAIN FOCUS’ OF THE MAGAZINE
FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS.

8. Colour-scheme
THE BACKDROP OF THIS MAGAZINE IS AN ELECTRIC
BLUE COLOUR HOWEVER IT IS COVERED WITH
SPLATTERS OF BLOOD. THIS HELPS ADD TO THE
THEME OF GORE IN THE MAGAZINE AND ATTRACT
THE AUDIENCE OF GORE FANS TO THE EDGES OF THE
MAGAZINE TO PULL IT OUT FROM A SHELF IN HOPE
ITS SOMETHING THEIR INTERESTED IN. THE
MASTHEADS COLOUR IS RED ADDING TO THE GORE
THEME WHIST THE OTHER COVER LINES ARE IN
BRIGHT YELLOW CONTRASTING AGAINST THE BLUE
BACKDROP CAUSING THE MAGAZINE TO STAND
OUT.

9. Barcode
THE BARCODE PRESENTED ON THIS MAGAZINE IS THE
TRADITIONAL BARCODE FOR STANDARD MAGAZINES ON THE
BOTTOM FAR LEFT OF THE PAGE. THIS IS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE
PAGE SO ITS EASY FOR SHOP KEEPERS AND READERS TO SEE
AND ALSO THIS MEANS IT DOESN’T INTERFERE WITH THE
OVERALL DESIGN OF THE MAGAZINE.

10. Other images
THE OTHER IMAGES ON THE FRONT COVER OF THE MAGAZINE
ARE PRESENTED OVER A BANNER GOING ACROSS THE
MIDDLE OF THE MAGAZINE MAKING IT EASY FOR THE READER
TO SEE AND THEREFORE CATCH THEIR ATTENTION. THE THREE
IMAGES ARE ALL HEAD SHOTS OF HUMANS THAT ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH HORROR AND THIS IS SHOWN THROUGH
THE MODELS MAKE-UP AKA ‘FAKE BLOOD’ AND NVC FOR
EXAMPLE ‘SHOCK OR HORROR’. THE THREE IMAGES ARE ALL
FROM DIFFERENT MOVIES THAT HOPEFULLY HORROR
AUDIENCES WILL RECOGNISE SO THIS THEREFORE SHOWS
THAT THE REASONS BEHIND ADDING THE OTHER IMAGES IS TO
PERSUADE BUT ALSO HELPS TO MAKE THE OVERALL DESIGN OF
THE MAGAZINE MORE APPEALING.