• Announcement:

    The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.

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BFS Online: Something Monstrous, Dark Fantasy v Horror

SFFH fans are no strangers to genre bending, or arguments about what defines a genre. In this

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Meet Graeme Patrick

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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Ask an Expert: August 2025

In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative

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Corinne Pollard

Ghostlore: Top 5 Ghosts

As a horror writer and fan of the spooky stuff, Corinne Pollard has read and written her fair share

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Justin Lee Anderson

Art As Escapism – And A Metaphor for Modern Society

Justin Lee Anderson’s new book, The Damned King, is out this week. It’s being released into a world

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Meet Jon Cronshaw

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BFS Reviews

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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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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The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen

Lord John Dalwood is a scholar studying ancient civilisations and is fascinated with Buddhism. When

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