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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association.〔(A History of the BFS: the Early Years )〕 The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. In 2000, the BFS won the Special Award: Non-Professional at the World Fantasy Awards.〔(2000 World Fantasy Award Winners )〕 The society also has its own awards, the annual British Fantasy Awards, created in 1971 at the suggestion of its president, the author Ramsey Campbell. It held its first Fantasycon in 1975.〔(Fantasycon: A Short History )〕 The current British Fantasy Society has no direct connection with the earlier science fiction group using the same name from 1942 to 1946. ==Publications== The BFS currently publishes two magazines, the ''British Fantasy Society Journal'', a quarterly paperback of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and ''Shelflings'', an ezine collecting reviews from the BFS website. Previous publications include ''Prism'', which featured news, reviews and columns, ''Dark Horizons'', which featured fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and enjoyed the patronage of many established authors, artists, critics and journalists, and ''New Horizons'', issued twice a year from 2008 to 2010, which published fiction and articles, but not poetry. The society continues to produce a remarkable series of publications, including numbered chapbooks of works by William Hope Hodgson, Michael Moorcock, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Tremayne, August Derleth, and M. R. James.〔(BFS Booklets and Chapbooks )〕 Magazines previously published include ''Winter Chills'' (later renamed ''Chills''), edited by Peter Coleborn, and ''Mystique: Tales Of Wonder'', edited by Mike Chinn. Both these magazines were independent publications, but linked to the BFS, and in the case of ''Mystique'', absorbed into ''Dark Horizons'' after a few issues. Paperback titles include ''Clive Barker: Mythmaker for the Millennium'' by Suzanne J. Barbieri, and ''Annabel Says'', a modern ghost story by Simon Clark and Stephen Laws. In 2007 it published ''HP Lovecraft in Britain: a Monograph'', written by Stephen Jones and illustrated by Les Edwards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Fantasy Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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