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The BFS Interviews… Flame Tree Publishing’s New Writer In Residence
We chat with Nick Wells, Publisher and Creative Director of Flame Tree Publishing, and writer
The Best Creatures in SFFH, Folklore & Myth
With one of the year’s best and most successful movies centring around vampires, and Halloween gear
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Classic Genre Films: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the
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Meet John Berkeley
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Ask an Expert: July 2025
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative
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Marginal by Tom Carlisle
In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W.
The Last Song of Penelope By Claire North
This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the
The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin
Evocative. Eerie. Mythic. Down-right weird. I could say all these things, and more, about The
The Witch of Wol Sin Lake by Lena Jeong
As long as the Netherking inhabits her brother’s body, Mirae cannot strike the final blow
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
It has taken long and arduous research, but Professor Emily Wilde thinks she has finally found a
Senseless by Ronald Malfi
As a teenager, Detective William Renney survived a snakebite, which gave him a healthy respect for