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: Escape Into Night (1972)
In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Escape Into Night—a children’s serial adapted from Catherine Storr’s novel Marianne Dreams, and later remade as the film Paperhouse.
Meet Catherine Cavendish
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). It’s time to get ghostly, haunted and creepy with gothic queen Catherine Cavendish.
Meet Cheryl Morgan
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 head off to Wales to meet the powerhouse behind Wizard’s Tower Press, Cheryl Myfanwy Morgan.
Latest reviews
Smothermoss by Alisa Alering
Sometimes it is difficult to know where the boundaries between genres lie. While the intelligent reader is looking for well-crafted prose, good characters and an interesting plot, publishers seem to want to put books into categories. Smothermoss is one of those books that crosses genres.…
A Betrayal of Storms by Ben Alderson
Woken by a dagger at the throat, Robin Vale knows better than to panic. As a half-fey, his father knew self-defence was an essential element of Robin’s education. So Robin uses his training. He recognises a voice. He knows these men from his father’s tavern.…
The Armageddon Protocol by Dan Moren
ESCHATON. Abort all activities. Lose all trackable tech. Regroup at a safe location. Not a command that Simon Kovalic expected to give, at least not so soon after completing a mission for the Commonwealth. But his debrief with his superior, General Adaj, is interrupted by…