Every Friday, we’ll meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This scary season, we’re focusing on our horror members—and next, it’s Mr Guy Fawkes: Demon Hunter himself, Benjamin Langley.
Ahead of his next Winter Haunts event, all-round UK SFFH event icon Alex Davis investigates why we can never get enough of the ghost story. Let’s be honest, we’ve all of us heard ghost stories – whether we really wanted to or not. For me I’m constantly seeking them out,… Read More »The Eternal Lure of the Ghost Story
The Wheel of Time Season 2, Episode 6: Eyes Without Pity Amazon Prime, 2023 Reviewed by Steven Poore I’ve mentioned before that this adaptation of Robert Jordan’s enormous epic has been picking and choosing set pieces to focus upon and weaving its own way between them in a more streamlined… Read More »The Wheel of Time
New BFS member Sarah Elliott joins the 2023 horror spotlight to explain why she was lured back to the dark side after spending her adulthood saying she wasn’t into the supernatural.
Every Friday, we’ll meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This scary season, we’re focusing on our horror members—and next, it’s E. Saxey.
RED RIVER SEVEN by A.J. Ryan RED RIVER SEVEN by A.J. Ryan. Orbit Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. He awakens to a corpse and to the realisation that he does not know his own name. Nor where he is. Nor why. It is a boat. Not large. His… Read More »Red River Seven
The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey Titan Books, pb, £10.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Ford and Neuland are guns for hire, mercenaries for the gangs, but when a job goes bad in New York, they head west until things cool down. On… Read More »The Pale House Devil
Ahead of World Mental Health Day on Tuesday, Dave Jeffery—co-chair of the Horror Writers Association’s Wellness Committee, and a former mental health nurse—reflects on depictions of mental illness in horror.
The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce ed by Mike Ashley The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce ed by Mike Ashley British Library Publishing, pb, £9.19 Reviewed by Pete Sutton This new collection presents over thirty of Bierce’s most terrifying and… Read More »The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales
Every Friday, we’ll meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This Spooktober, we’re focusing on our horror members—and first up, it’s Dr Rachel Knightley.