British Fantasy Library membership 1947-1949

The British Fantasy Library (BFL) was a successor organisation to the British Fantasy Society, becoming a separate organisation in January 1947 and continuing until around the end of 1948 or early 1949. The British Fantasy Library Handbook likely dates from late 1947 and lists 30 names although these don't include the organisers, Ron Holmes and Nigel Lindsay. When Walt Willis mailed copies of the BFL's Booklist around Christmas 1948 there were 41 paid up members although some of the original 30 may have lapsed.

Known members are as follows:

Names marked * had previously been members of the British Fantasy Society.

• Norman Ashfield
• M. A. Boyd
• M. Charity
• Jimmy Clay
• I. Clay-Jones
• S. R. Dalton
• Charles Duncombe
• D. W. Evans
• Derek Gardiner *
• W. Arthur Gibson *
• N. C. Gourley
• F. J. Grimes
• Phil Hetherington
• Ron Holmes *
• E. R. James *
• Kenneth Johnson *
• Nigel Lindsay *
• Allan Longton *
• cNaught D. (check name)
• Harry Manson *
• C'Trollope T. (check name)
• C. H. Pepper
• Francis G. Rayer *
• Stanley Roberts
• E. W. Roberts
• J. Michael Rosenblum *
• Ken Slater
• D. R. Smith *
• E. F. Smith
• L. G. Street
• C. Walker
• F. D. Wilson

The following don't appear on any membership list but may have been members:

• Vin¢ Clarke who distributed Booklist with Science Fantasy News.
• John Gunn who took over as editor of Booklist in 1948.
• Thomas L. MacDonald who according to Booklist #6 offered to print the directory but then didn't.
• J. Frank White who according to Booklist #6 stopped answering letters.
• Walt Willis who sought to distribute Slant with Booklist and ended up distributing Booklist with Slant.

The end point of the British Fantasy Library isn't clear but was likely around the very end of 1948 or early 1949. It was succeeded by the Science Fantasy Society.

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Club

1947—1949

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