New FANTASYCON Blog
I have set up a blog specifically for Fantasycon 2009 information. So far I’ve been posting catch-up items. Please visit Fantasycon2009Â regularly and be [...]
Lost of the Rings
From the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt website: HMH “has acquired a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was a professor at Oxford during [...]
Arkham Tales 2 now available
Issue 2 of Arkham Tales (“a magazine of weird fiction”) is now available for free download. This issue contains fiction by K.S. Clay, Dev Jarrett, Jason Hardy, [...]
The Invasion of the British Snatchers
From Cemetery Dance Publications is the anthology British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon and James More. This book will show our American cousins just [...]
World Horror Convention 2009 news
Congratulations to our own Conrad Williams. For he is one of the Guests of Honour at this year’s World Horror Convention. The other GoH are F Paul Wilson, Edo van [...]
Half-Life in live action
Half-Life 2 has been a huge influence on fantasy film-making in recent years: everything from Children of Men to Cloverfield has borrowed liberally from Valve’s [...]
World Horror Convention 2010 Announces First GoH
The World Horror Convention 2010 has announced its first Guest of Honour: acclaimed fantasy, horror, science fiction and young adult author, TANITH LEE. Since the publication [...]
FANTASYCON 2009: GAIL MARTIN IS THIRD GUEST OF HONOUR
We are delighted to announce that Gail Z Martin is confirmed as our third Guest of Honour. Gail is the author of the Chronicles of the Necromancer series: The Summoner, [...]
Who won’t be watching the Watchmen?
A detailed analysis of Bookscan numbers by Brian Hibbs over on Comic Book Resources shows Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, to have sold in amazing quantities [...]
Joss Whedon and Harry Harrison honoured by the SFWA
Recently announced by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA): Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, will receive the [...]