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    The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.

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The TV That Made Us - the Singing Ringing Tree by Gary Couzens
Gary Couzens

The TV That Made Us: The Singing Ringing Tree (1957/1964)

In his semi-regular column on the classic TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits an

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Entrance to the British Library with Fairy Tales banner above
Allen Ashley

Exhibition Review: “Fairy Tales” at The British Library

Allen Ashley heads to St Pancras again to review the in-person exhibition “Fairy Tales” at The

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From Pen to Print: Emma Burnett on Ex Partum

Emma Burnett’s “short story gone awry” is now a novella that’s out through Atthis Arts. She’s

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Meet Nicolette M Ward

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Number One and Number Five face off in ruined hospital gowns in a damaged hospital room
Rick Danforth

Turning Stranger Things Upside Down

Rick Danforth has re-watched all of Netflix’s supernatural flagship and now returns from the Upside

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From Pen to Print: Nicki Pary on A Teller’s Tale

Bedridden due to chronic illness, Nicki Pary imagined escaping into another world. Those daydreams

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Pauline Morgan

REALMS OF THE ROUND TABLE compiled by John Matthews: illustrated by John Howe

The concept of the coffee-table book is a conceit aimed at promoting conversation. Today, the term

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Matthew Johns

The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is an always reliable author, weaving tales with a mystical theme – often exploring

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Elloise

Entwined by H.M. Long

Miss Ottilie Fleet knows him to be a smuggler, but she also recognises him to be a mage, from the

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Pauline Morgan

RETURN OF THE ANCIENTS: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird edited by Katy Soar

Whatever your religious beliefs, myths and legends tend to hold a fascination. Although in some

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Sarah Deeming

Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The future is green. Humanity’s old cities have been replaced by eco, bio diverse cities where

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Nightmare from the Depths

Tragedy and madness collide in a new campaign for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. Via the Miskatonic

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