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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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BFS Online: World Fantasy Convention 2025 – Worlds of Fantasy

Imagined worlds are often inspired by real-world locations, people and circumstances. Fantasy

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Meet Lyndsey Croal

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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Call of Cthulhu – No Time to Scream

Gaming is fun, but to newcomers, it can be intimidating. Everyone who has ever played a tabletop

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The Sirens by Emilia Hart

The Sirens is a lushly written novel set across two time periods. We follow two sets of sisters

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Dragonfire. Issue 1. RPG Zine Review

One of the most significant aspects of tabletop role-playing is that the games are limitless.

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The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

Paige Mahoney has always dreamed of escaping Scion and returning to the free world beyond, where

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At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca

As my first longer piece of Eric LaRocca fiction, having only read 4 short stories of his

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Adrian Fletcher

The Original’s Rage by David Watkins

For ten years, Captain Peter Knowles has been in the middle of a war between humans and werewolves,

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