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• Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka

  21 Oct 2014: Writing so slippery is hard to define - but it also demonstrates a chilling truth about us, the readers, writes Sam Jordison

• Reading group: what if Kafka's books had been burned?

  14 Oct 2014: ‘Kafkaesque’ would have a very different definition if Max Brod had consigned his friend’s unpublished manuscripts to the flames as requested, writes Sam Jordison

• October’s Reading group: Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

  2 Oct 2014: Sam Jordison: Kafka’s flights of imagination left a lasting impression on fiction. This month’s choice celebrates the moment he started to write them down

• Twilight returns! (in a series of short films premiering on Facebook)

  1 Oct 2014: Lionsgate, Women in Film and Facebook to partner on new episodes in the franchise, each focusing on different key characters

• Neil Gaiman: ‘Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry’

  24 Sep 2014: Terry Pratchett may strike many as a twinkly old elf, but that’s not him at all. Neil Gaiman on the inner rage that drives his ailing friend’s writing
  

• Birth of a new world: the Tolkien poem that marks the genesis of Middle-earth

  24 Sep 2014: In September 1914, as war broke out, Tolkien created the mythical land that led him to The Lord of the Rings. John Garth tells the story of the poem that changed his life

• We could be heroes: the wild world of cosplay – in pictures

  19 Sep 2014: Homemade body suits, giant lollipops and space helmets … cosplayers are ultra-dedicated fans who dress up as their favourite superheroes, anime characters, TV stars and video game warriors. Check out a global phenomenon

• World Fantasy awards pressed to drop HP Lovecraft trophy in racism row

  17 Sep 2014: Authors say statuette of the notorious science fiction author is inappropriate to honour modern sci-fi and fantasy writers, reports Alison Flood

• Meet the cast of Terry Pratchett's Dragons at Crumbing Castle! – in pictures

  Gallery (10 pictures), 12 Sep 2014:

  From Hercules the Tortoise to a messed up Father Christmas, Terry Pratchett and illustrator Mark Beech have dreamed up a very strange crew. Say hello to them here!

• Ursula K Le Guin, rising above genre and so much else

  11 Sep 2014: Alison Flood: It is entirely appropriate that her Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters places her among the greats

• Graham Joyce obituary

  10 Sep 2014: Award-winning writer of fantasy fiction who was an incisive observer of human foibles

• Graham Joyce, much-loved fantasy author, dies aged 59

  10 Sep 2014: Author of The Tooth Fairy and Some Kind of Fairy Tale had been suffering from aggressive lymphoma

• Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb – a melancholic hero fights again

  10 Sep 2014: This unexpected return to the adventures of FitzChivalry Farseer is modern fantasy at its irresistible best. By Alison Flood

• Where do fairies come from?

  27 Aug 2014:

  Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

• Shadow of the Wolf by Tim Hall review – a dark Robin Hood retelling

  23 Aug 2014: Hall's debut novel is a gory fantasy mashup with Game of Thrones and X-Men in its DNA, writes Tony Bradman

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