The Fantasy Hive - A U.K. Wonderland
A hub for all things fantasy (plus some SF). Book reviews, games, author interviews, features, serial fiction- you name it. The Fantasy Hive is a collaborative site formed of unique personalities who just want to celebrate fantasy. Btw, the SFF novel to the left by one of our members, Warwick Gleeson, was a "Top 150 Best Books" Kirkus pick in 2019.
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Anna Smith Spark is the author of the critically acclaimed grimdark epic fantasy trilogy Empires of Dust described by The Sunday Times as ‘Game of Literary Thrones … the next generation hit fantasy fiction.’ Anna lives in London, UK. She loves grimdark and epic fantasy and historical military fiction. Anna has a BA in Classics, an MA in history and a PhD in English Literature. She has previously been published in the Fortean Times and the poetry website www.greatworks.org.uk. Previous jobs include petty bureaucrat, English teacher and fetish model. Anna’s favourite authors and key influences are R. Scott Bakker, Steve Erikson, M. John Harrison, Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stew…
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Long ago bright, luminous magic poured freely through schisms around the world, in the shadows mages roamed in their numbers secretly bringing miracles to those who most needed it. Yet in 1912 magic has all but disappeared, schisms have closed and new ones have become rare to find, the world has become a darker place. However for one sixteen year old girl, magic is all she has ever known. Biddy lives on the mythical island of Hy-Brasil, just off the coast of Ireland. This is the last place where wild magic runs freely, an isolated place hidden to the outside world, where only Biddy, a mysterious magician called Rowan and his rabbit familiar Hutchincroft, live. Biddy was s…
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“Blood. Herbs. Somebody here had a book. Somebody here was doing magic.” Emma Törzs seamlessly meshes together fantasy, thriller and dark academia to bring us a spectacularly spellbinding debut. Buzzing with atmospheric prose, charismatic characters and a cryptic plot, Ink Blood Sister Scribe sumptuously bleeds magic from every page. We follow Joanna and Esther, two estranged half-sisters who must protect their family’s collection of magical books as their ancestors for generations have done. However, where our story begins Joanna and Esther have been separated for several years with hardly any contact with one another. Joanna lives in their family home in Verm…
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Today, we’re thrilled to bring you the cover reveal for Caroline Hardaker’s upcoming novel Mothtown which will be published by Angry Robot on 14th November. Before we get to discussing the cover, here’s what the book is all about: As a child, David could tell something was wrong. The kids in school spread rumours of missing people, nests of bones and bodies appearing in the mountains. His sister refused to share what she knew, and his parents turned off the TV whenever he entered the room. Protecting him, they said. Worse, the only person who shared anything at all with him, his beloved grandpa, disappeared without a goodbye. Mum and Dad said he was dead. But what …
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“The signs are sure; for days they have been passing – close down upon the world. The flocks are scattered. There has been tumult – tumult in the mountains.” Algernon Blackwood was one of the key early writers of Weird fiction, and one of the formative voices of the genre. He was an acknowledged influence on fellow pioneers of horror and the fantastic like H. P. Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien, through to modern masters of the genre like Caitlin R. Kiernan and Ramsey Campbell. The Unknown: Weird Writings, 1900-1937 is a new anthology of Blackwood’s work, edited by academic of supernatural stories Henry Bartholomew and published by Handheld Press. The Unknown forgoes Black…
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“I wasn’t raised as a life-form of limited imagination. But truthfully, on my home planet, no one could have imagined that there is something that walks around on two legs swinging its two arms. The idea of it must have been tossed around at some point, but we would be hard pressed to believe that bipedalism was really possible and that there really is a whole group of life-forms out there somewhere living on two legs. On my planet, we have no trouble balancing on four legs, or on three legs with one arm. After getting a leg cut off in an accident, just a few days’ rest will restore their number back to what it was before. While trying to live in this place, it feels like…
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Hearken thee mindless masses of malingering mooks, Ulesorin is returned with wisdom aplenty and contempt in but an approportionate measure. All is still here in the realm beyond your own, all the wars are settled, all the flags are beating staccato rhythms in the wind, in short, it is a time for change. Usurpers must be empowered, kings deposed, dragon’s teased out from their mountain holds and peasants plucked of their most promising farm boys so that freshly made heroes can be squeezed from their remnants. All is quiet, and I cannot abide the silence pounding at the periphery of my mind, every moment, the damnable silence, the music of the spheres muted by it. It is en…
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