Top Tips For Great Author Headshots
Photographer Tom Pepperdine will be at this year’s Fantasycon in Chester offering headshots to
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Representing Weird Fiction: A Q&A with the Innsmouth Literary Festival
With the second Innsmouth Literary Festival set to take place in Bedford next weekend, we chatted
A Thank You to Fantasycon Contributors
A big thank you to all those who’ve contributed to the Fantasycon book bags and raffle. We’re so
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The Welsh Countryside and Folk Horror: A Match Made in Heaven, or At Least Some Pre-Christian Pagan Equivalent?
Ahead of the release of his second novel, Don’t Let ‘Em Take the Children, next weekend, Welsh
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Meet Stephen McGowan
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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Medea by Rosie Hewlett
Medea is a prisoner in her father’s house, Aeetes, King of Colchis. Where once he reviled her
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
The striking and seductive Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada is the secretive heroine of this beautifully
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness by Matt Ottley
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness follows a boy through a journey with mental illness.
The Dark Side of the Sky
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SKY by Francesco Dimitri. Titan Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise
The Fireborne Blade
Once the King’s favourite, Maddileh is now a knight disgraced, searching for an opportunity
Burn the Negative
Okay, I’m hooked before we even start, as I have to admit I’m a sucker for horror