• Announcement:

    Voting is now open for the British Fantasy Awards. Voting period runs from 16 April to 3 May; members and Fantasycon ticket holders can vote. Full details in our blog.

BFS Blog and Reviews

News and Articles

Meet Benjamin Unsworth

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

Read More….

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

Read More….

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

Read More….

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

Read More….

Meet Mark Stay

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

Read More….

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): Paul Dalton; M F Alfrey; Wayne Goodchild; Joseph Elliott-Coleman; Alethea Lyons; Sandhya Jain-Patel; Susie Williamson.

BFS Online: Something Monstrous, Readings

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

Read More….

Read all our news and articles

BFS Reviews

Marginal by Tom Carlisle

In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W.

Read More….

The Last Song of Penelope By Claire North

This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the

Read More….

The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin

Evocative. Eerie. Mythic. Down-right weird. I could say all these things, and more, about The

Read More….

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

Read More….

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

Read More….

Senseless by Ronald Malfi

As a teenager, Detective William Renney survived a snakebite, which gave him a healthy respect for

Read More….

Read all our reviews