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Allen Ashley

Classic Genre Films: Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1961)

Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the

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Meet Andrew Knighton

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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Meet Benjamin Unsworth

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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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a greyscale decrepit corridor. In the middle is a shadowy figure. Around the image are blood spatters and bloody handprints. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a silver dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos (left to right): Eleanor Pender; M F Alfrey; Sarah Maria Griffin; Catherine Yu.

BFS Online: Something Monstrous, Monster Building

Monsters come in all shapes, sizes and forms, but how do you build the perfect one? What

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SShown is a graphic that has a white background with multicoloured hands raised in a fist. On the bottom right and left is the BFS logo, a red and black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos (left to right): Philip Reeve; Shona Kinsella.

BFS Online: Something Monstrous, Author Interview

BFS Chair Shona Kinsella interviews New York Times bestselling author Scarlett St

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Keith B Walters

A Gathering of the Angels: Celebrating David Lynch, Live

Renowned Lynch enthusiast Keith B Walters chats with Lindsey Bowden, the creative director of A

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The Sorrow of the Sea by Stephen Aryan

Temujin has usurped his father as Khan of the Ilkhanate, but his work is not done. He is still at

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The Dagon Collection ed by Nate Pedersen

There is always a place for experimental writing or new approaches to literature, and genre fiction

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Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil is a character-driven sapphic vampire epic spanning from the

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Requiem by John Palisano

Eden is a moon-sized cemetery in space where Earth sends its dead. It is more than just a place to

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Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2 Edited by Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall

Funny things, anthologies. Were they ever as popular as they are right now? Arguably, the form has

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Living Space and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov

There are stories that stay with us, floating around our subconscious, half-remembered from

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