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From Pen to Print: Amy De La Force on A Kiss of Hammer and Flame

With the release of the first instalment in her new romantasy series looming large, Amy de la Force

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SXSW Hits London’s Cinemas This Week With A Host of Eerie New SFFH Films

Renowned festival of creative groundbreakers, SXSW this week brings a feast of eerie cinema to the

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BFS Online: World Fantasy Convention 2025 – Guest Spotlights

Suniti Namjoshi, Sarah Pinborough and Ramsey Campbell get chatty in these guest

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BFS Online: World Fantasy Convention 2025 – 50 Years of Fantasycon and the British Fantasy Society

After its founding 1971, the BFS held its first Fantasycon in 1975. We take a look back at the

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BFS Online: World Fantasy Convention 2025 – 21st Century Horror

A quarter way through this century and it’s time for a review! How has horror changed since the

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BFS Online: World Fantasy Convention 2025 – Readings

We have eight readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror – to help

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Craig Lockley

Dragonfire Issue 3

Dragonfire is back for a third issue with more of everything. Readers looking for more content and

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Adrian Fletcher

The Coven by Harper L Woods

The back cover pitches this as “…your next fantasy romance obsession”. That’s a strong

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Adrian Fletcher

That Which Stands Outside by Mark Morris

There is a tradition of horror novels isolating a community or group of people and having nasty

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Adrian Fletcher

A Crow Named Torment by Silas A. Bischoff

Torment was once a regular crow, carrying messages from the Baroness around The One City; secrets,

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Adrian Fletcher

The Raven Scholar by Antonina Hodgson

Yana Valit, descendant of Yasthala the Great, the last Raven Empress, has just turned sixteen,

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Adrian Fletcher

Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

Sometimes it is difficult to know where the boundaries between genres lie. While the intelligent

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