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
Classic Genre Films: The Time Machine (1960)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the context in which they were released. For the latest instalment in his new blog series, he’s jumping into The Time Machine.
Meet Clive Dawson
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 talking scripts and classic horror films with Clive Dawson, whose work you’ve likely watched at some point.
This Way Lies Madness: Fighting Stigma Through Dark Fiction
Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, Lauren McMenemy caught up with Lee Murray and Dave Jeffery, the editors of new Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to hear about mental health stigmas and how horror can actually help us.
Latest reviews
Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman
Davina, Kellen, and Morel Linde are travelling incognito by the cross-continental train from Balter to the kingdom of Halgyr before their father dies, so Kellen can assume the position of king. However, an incident on the train derails them and leaves the travellers stranded, cut…
These Dreaming Spires: A Dark Academia Anthology ed by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane
This anthology follows the earlier dark academia collection In These Hallowed Halls. Apart from Olivie Blake of The Atlas Six fame, this collection contains an entirely new set of authors ready to take on the dark academia genre. Each story offers wonderfully unique horrors, from…
The Sword Triumphant by Gareth Hanrahan
Old Alf of Mulladale is regarded as a solid man. Dependable, reliable, strong, if a bit dim. But he is hiding a secret. In his youth, he was the Lammegeier, the legendary hero. One of the Nine who defeated Lord Bone and saved the world…