A Community for those who love Magical Creatures, Monsters and the Fantastic!
What do we do here?
Community
We connect fantasy readers, writers, industry professionals. We offer many opportunities to gather, both in-person and online to share the love of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writing!
Celebrate
Fantasycon and the British Fantasy Awards help our community enjoy, connect, network and get recognition. Join us for our annual events, or find out about past awards.
Support
Helping writers, publishers, agents, and fans (and anyone else interested in SFFH). Advice, moral support, ways to increase their reach and knowledge.
Promotion
We offer members fantastic opportunities and save on marketing campaigns. We also offer a publisher membership!
Publication
BFS Horizons magazine and BFS Journal are just two of the ways our members and others can find opportunities to get their writing out there!
Inform
Members receive exclusive news via our newsletter and Discord, and non-members get access to our blogs and social media too.
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Latest news on our blog
The TV That Made Us: The Box of Delights (1984)
In his semi-regular column on the classic TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits 1984’s The Box of Delights—the effects might be showing their age, but the original charm is preserved.
The BFS Interviews: Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane
British speculative fiction icons Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane chat with Lauren McMenemy about their latest anthology for the Flame Tree Beyond & Within series, Witch Craft, plus their approach to putting together anthologies and how you, dear writer, could stand out from the submissions…
Meet Jaime Urencio
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week we’re in the Capital with Mexican-born scifi author Jaime Urencio, who’s drawn to stories that examine the potential future consequences…
Latest reviews
Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
The Wren family are your typical dysfunctional wealthy dynasty: a distant, but brilliant father (Thayer Wren); an ambitious and equally brilliant older sister (Meredith Wren); the unambitious politician middle child (Arthur Wren); and the younger sister, an ex-ballet dancer injured in a car accident, who…
The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood
Writers, particularly of science fiction, try to keep up with new ideas and research the areas that they intend to use in their work. The same applies to authors of the past as well. The problem with scientific developments is that they can be superseded…
The Fog by James Herbert
An earthquake in a sleepy village in southern England’s countryside unleashes a strange, poisonous fog that turns everyone caught in it into a rabid murderer without inhibitions. It moves around the country without the help of the wind, and instead of dissipating under sunlight, it…