Blockbuster horror soars when it clowns around, stumbles when it gets serious Any horror aficionado worth his salt will scoff at a horro...

Detection on Different Levels? In his latest book, Allegory and Ideology (2019), Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson describes...

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In the first of what we hope will be a regular feature, Stephen Theaker asks Tim Major a few questions. What do you use for note-taking ...

I've finished reading the items nominated for the British Fantasy Award 2019 for comics and graphic novels , and thought about how I w...

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I thought it might be fun this summer to read as many of the British Fantasy Award nominees as I could, as a kind of one-man shadow jury. ...

Glen Weldon is a respected writer on books and comic books for NPR, the American equivalent of Radio 4, and a panellist on their excellent...

The nominees in my favourite awards were announced today! A bit of boring stuff first: note that the announcement on the BFS website (...

James is the bailiff of Lewes. When the Process decides that people – a village, a family, a child – must be removed, he cannot resist for...

It’s unexceptional. It’s brilliant. A mixed review for Us. Writer/director Jordan Peele follows his captivating directorial debut Get Ou...

Did you know that British Fantasy Society members have been getting an exclusive pdf chapbook every month for the last three years? And th...

Zack Lightman’s dad died in an explosion at a sewage treatment plant, and it made the papers so everyone knows. That was back in 1999. A ...

Stephen Palmer, who contributed "The Mines of Sorrow" to Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #46 (that was an excellent issue!), h...

free pdf | print UK | print US Sorry for making you all wait so long for this issue, especially the contributors, who have been so p...

Allen Ashley is editing a new anthology for Eibonvale Press, The Once and Future Moon , and it is open for submissions on that theme till ...

McAvoy steals the show in trilogy finale that takes message too far. The unconventional superhero film Glass, written and directed by M....

Thousands of years ago humanity was almost wiped out by the nightly attacks of coreling demons, and saved at the last by the discovery of ...

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Over 50 years later, the magic returns in respectful sequel that celebrates positive thinking and the power of the imagination.  Since s...