News & Press from The Future Fire

It’s been just over a year now since the Making Monsters anthology of stories, poems and essays featuring classical monsters was published....

Our friends at the Institute of Classical Studies (who helped fund and publish the Making Monsters anthology), and our co-editor Emma Bridg...

The month-long  Making Monsters promo carnival ended last week, having seen a dozen or so interviews and guest posts, various games and giv...

Guest post by George Lockett. I love monsters. Don’t get me wrong—they can be terrifying. Creatures who can rend our bodies with their t...

Guest post by Alexandra Grunberg. The world is not a simple split of black and white, good and evil, heroes and monsters. Though it would ...

Guest post by Misha Penton I “This was the darkness in which ghosts and monsters were active, and indeed was not the woman who lived in ...

Guest post by Neil James Hudson. My childhood was full of monsters. My favourite book was Usborne’s All About Monsters by Carey Miller. T...

Guest post by Liz Gloyn Liz Gloyn, Senior Lecturer in Classics Royal Holloway, University of London As I have been thinking about the ...

For the next few weeks we will be running a series of guest posts, appearing in interviews and panels, and running games and other activitie...

One not very well known fact about monsters is that they love cities. We tend to imagine them in caves and forests, but, really, when asked,...

The end of this week sees the release of our new publication Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology , co-edited by Emma Brid...

Last month we revealed the cover art for the Making Monsters anthology (and which is so lovely, we're giving you it here again—huge tha...

The Making Monsters anthology now has a full complement of stories, poems and essays, and will very shortly be producing the first ARCs (wi...

To celebrate our love for monsters, and in particular for the most rebellious mythical creatures from the Classical past, we have collected ...

This CFS is now closed! We have just opened the call for submissions for Making Monsters — a mixed volume of public engagement essays o...