• Announcement:

    The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.

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

  • Number One and Number Five face off in ruined hospital gowns in a damaged hospital room
    Turning Stranger Things Upside Down

    Rick Danforth has re-watched all of Netflix’s supernatural flagship and now returns from the Upside Down to tell us about the good, the bad, and that ending…

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  • From Pen to Print: Nicki Pary

    Bedridden due to chronic illness, Nicki Pary imagined escaping into another world. Those daydreams formed the basis of her first novel, A Teller’s Tale, which is out now through The Book Guild. She tells us more about what she calls a meta-novel about fantasy storytelling.

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  • Classic Genre Films: Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)

    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 series, he’s looking back at Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors from 1965.

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Latest reviews

  • Entwined by H.M. Long
    Entwined by H.M. Long

    Miss Ottilie Fleet knows him to be a smuggler, but she also recognises him to be a mage, from the silver tattoos that adorn his throat, visible in the moonlight. He is dressed in old clothes though, and shows no sign of a Guild ring.…

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  • RETURN OF THE ANCIENTS: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird edited by Katy Soar

    Whatever your religious beliefs, myths and legends tend to hold a fascination. Although in some cultures tales of these elder Gods and Goddesses are taken seriously, for most, they are exciting fantasy tales, often filled with heroic deeds. Most of the stories of the higher…

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  • Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    The future is green. Humanity’s old cities have been replaced by eco, bio diverse cities where humans and nature thrive hand in hand. Buildings are surrounded by plant life: trees, moss, ferns, ivy. It is a futuristic elven paradise. But all this natural luxury comes…

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