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Announcement:
The British Fantasy Society
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.
Find out more by using our main menu’s About or Get in Touch options, or see it all at a glance with our sitemap
Latest news on our blog
Meet Nicole Eigener
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 head to Southern California to meet an Anglophile and Francophile who writes queer gothic vampire romance, and who claims…
The Legacy of Discworld
Fresh(ish) from a panel at World Fantasycon discussing all things Discworld, Rick Danforth reflects on the legacy of Sir Terry Pratchett’s most famous works, and why fans are still discovering new things in well-worn paperback copies.
Exhibition Review: Pirates at the National Maritime Museum
Allen Ashley heads to Greenwich, London, to review the in-person exhibition “Pirates” at the National Maritime Museum
Latest reviews
Out of the Past, Tales of Haunting History edited by Aaron Worth
We have a fascination with the past. Life has the appearance of being simpler without the intrusions of modern technology, and we tend to forget the privations that life held for the majority of people. For writers of horror and ghost stories, there is scope…
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…