A Community for those who love Magical Creatures, Monsters and the Fantastic!
What do we do here?
Community
We connect fantasy readers, writers, industry professionals. We offer many opportunities to gather, both in-person and online to share the love of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction writing!
Celebrate
Fantasycon and the British Fantasy Awards help our community enjoy, connect, network and get recognition. Join us for our annual events, or find out about past awards.
Support
Helping writers, publishers, agents, and fans (and anyone else interested in SFFH). Advice, moral support, ways to increase their reach and knowledge.
Promotion
We offer members fantastic opportunities and save on marketing campaigns. We also offer a publisher membership!
Publication
BFS Horizons magazine and BFS Journal are just two of the ways our members and others can find opportunities to get their writing out there!
Inform
Members receive exclusive news via our newsletter and Discord, and non-members get access to our blogs and social media too.
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Latest news on our blog
Meet Sophia Vahdati
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week we’re in Somerset with Persian British author Sophia Vahdati, who says she “writes for people who are still searching for…
The TV That Made Us: Object Z (1965)
In his semi-regular column on the TV that made us SFFH fans, Gary Couzens revisits Object Z—an early SF serial aimed at children that brought complaints from parents for its bleak nature.
From Pen to Print: Daniel Willcocks on Slay
With the latest entry in the Twisted Tales series about to be unleashed, Daniel Willcocks returns to tell us more about the creepy Christmas novella Slay.
Latest reviews
Witchborne by Rachel Grosvenor
Witchborne is set in the small town of Locklear, in a world that resembles medieval Western society in many ways, but where, instead of God, ‘Gods’ are worshipped, and the priest-figure is called the ‘Grothi’. Agnes is a young woman who, as a spring-born child,…
Shattered Reality . Call of Cthulhu Scenario Anthology
Usually, esteemed publisher Chaosium is responsible for creating content for the iconic game Call of Cthulhu. Things have changed. Via the Miskatonic Repository (an initiative allowing people to create content for the classic horror RPG), publisher Yellow Hand has stepped up with a collection of one-shots…
The Flesh King by Richard Kadrey
Something stalks the streets of New York, and all that remains of its victims are their bones and gristle. The police are stumped, which means there is only one explanation: the culprit is supernatural, so there is only one group of people anyone can turn…