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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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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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Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle

Konstantin Duhovny, Kostya to his family, Bones to his best friend, and Stan, to a girl he is yet

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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

With the TV series of the Wheel of Time completing its third season, I thought now would be a good

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Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a

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A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s

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Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race

Six Wild Crowns transposes infamous Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives into a fantasy world

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Marginal by Tom Carlisle

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

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