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Golden Jubilee Event – Tickets Available

27/01/2022

The British Fantasy Society invites you to join us in celebrating our Golden Jubilee with a full day online event on 26th February 2022. We have a range of panels, lined up, [...]

Volunteer Roles

27/10/2021

Volunteers Wanted! We have a number of volunteer roles and projects that we would love to have your help with. If we do not get applicants for a role, we will be looking to [...]

British Fantasy Awards 2021: winners announced

27/09/2021

The British Fantasy Awards 2021 took place on 26th September 2021, as part of FantasyCon, held at Jury’s Inn in Birmingham. It was also streamed online, and you can [...]

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes By Tim Lucas from @pspublishinguk

24/05/2022

The cover for The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes. The cover is cartoon-like with the head of a man looking to the left. He is wearing glasses with red and yellow swirls on them. There are also little figures around the main man. On his right shoulder is another man leaning on a motorbike, on his right is a woman with red hair and a blue dress. A cartoon image of Jack Nicholson sits on a cloud on the left just about the woman. Along the bottom are two more men on motorbikes chasing women in the pattern of woman, man, woman, man right to left.

THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES By Tim Lucas PS Publishing, HB, £20.00 Reviewed by Matthew Johns This tells the tale of legendary film director Roger Corman and his quest to [...]

Available for Pre-Order Holes for Faces by Ramsey Campbell from @pspublishinguk

23/05/2022

Front cover for Holes for Faces by Ramsey Campbell. The front cover is a dark red with thick white tentacles curling around three skulls. There are eyes at the end of the tentacles.

Holes for Faces by Ramsey Campbell PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, pbk, £12.99 Reviewed by Ian Hunter As Steve Miller once sang: “Time keeps on slippin’, [...]

Available for Pre-Order Twenty Years Dead by @RFarrenBarber from @crystallakepub #BookReview #Horror

20/05/2022

Front cover for Twenty Years Dead by Richard Farren Barber. The cover is a night scene with a heavy wooden chair and straps in the middle

Twenty Years Dead by Richard Barber Crystal Lake Publishing, ebook, £3.25 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The dead don’t stay buried forever. Twenty years exactly after someone [...]

Available for Pre-Order Hide by @kierstenwhite #BookReview #Horror

18/05/2022

The front cover for Hide by Kiersten White. The Cover is yellow with the word HIDE in red capitals. There is a fun fair on a abstract piece of land with roots coming down as if the fair was built on a living thing.

Hide by Kiersten White Penguin, ebook, £7.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The premise is simple. Fourteen contestants are involved in a giant game of Hide and Seek in an [...]

Pre-Order Now from @orbitbooks. THE STARDUST THIEF by @chelseaabdullah #BookReview #Fantasy

17/05/2022

Cover for the Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah. The cover white with Arabic patterns and a bronze talisman with a lamp on it. Red and orange smoke swirls around it.

THE STARDUST THIEF by Chelsea Abdullah. Orbit Books. h/b. £14.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Long ago, the jinn stopped obeying the gods. The world was nearly destroyed, [...]

The Quantum War (The Quantum Evolution Book 3) by Derek Künsken from Solaris #BookReview #Scifi

16/05/2022

The book cover for "The Quantum War" by Derek Kunsken. The cover is an image of a spaceship heading towards a space station that is surrounded by red clouds.

The Quantum War (The Quantum Evolution Book 3) by Derek Künsken Solaris, Paperback, £7.37 Reviewed by Ian Green The Quantum Evolution series has reached a crescendo with [...]

Cults of Cthulhu by Chaosium. RPG review

16/05/2022

Cults of Cthulhu, By Chaosium, PDF £20.46 , Website Review by: Seth Stauffer Cults are a TTRPG staple, it doesn’t matter what the genre is. However, some games need cults, [...]

THE HAUNTING OF LAS LAGRIMAS by W.M. Cleese from @TitanBooks #BookReview

13/05/2022

Cover for "The Haunting of Las Lagrimas" by W.M. Cleese. The cover is black with green stems and two red flowers either side of a key which has a skull handle.

THE HAUNTING OF LAS LAGRIMAS by W.M. Cleese. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Plagued by memories and nightmares of Las Lágrimas, Ursula Kelp, former [...]

PENNYBLADE by J.L. Worrad from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Fantasy

12/05/2022

Cover for "Pennyblade" by J.L. Worrad. The cover is black with a red circle in the middle. In front of the circle is a woman holding a blade upright in front of her. One half of her face is a white mask in black clothes, the other half has armor and her face is concealed.

PENNYBLADE by J.L. Worrad. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Kyra Cal’Adra is a Commrach, or as the humans call her, an elf, sprite and worse. A [...]

Witchlings by @Claribel_Ortega from @scholastic #BookReview #Fantasy #WitchlingsBook

11/05/2022

Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega Scholastic, pb, £5.36 Reviewed by Minna Nizam Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega is an excellent continuation of Ortega’s career as [...]