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Announcing the Table of Contents for Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020
We are excited to share the Table of Contents for the 2020 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of 29 of our favorite short stories and novelettes selected from the stories we have...
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Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020 Is Out Now!
The 2020 edition of Some of the Best From Tor.com is out today! This anthology features twenty-four of our favorite original stories published on the site in the past year. Of course, you can always...
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All the SFF Winners of the 2021 ALA Alex Awards
The American Library Association is currently holding its annual midwinter meeting and exhibits conference, and part of the event is its Youth Media Awards—which houses the Alex Awards, a slate of...
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Here Are the Finalists for the LA Times 2021 Ray Bradbury Prize
Today, The Los Angeles Times announced its finalists for its 41st annual L.A. Times Book Prizes, which includes the second year of the publication’s Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy...
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Five Heart-Pounding Jump Scares in Horror Fiction
It’s relatively trivial to scare someone with a moving image—pan the camera across the darkness, a sudden blur as the witch jumps out at you, cue screams. But truly talented authors can evoke jump...
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Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians Wins the Ray Bradbury Prize
The L.A. Times announced the winners of its annual book prizes in a virtual ceremony on April 16th, including the winner of the second Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative...
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Open Letter to Cons From the Indians No Longer in the Background of a John...
Indians Aren’t Furniture. You don’t have to put us all together over in the corner like a set. And understand that “corner” here means the All-Native panel you think makes perfect sense. Conventions...
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Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners
The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards, given last week at a virtual ceremony during StokerCon 2021. This year’s awards include two double winners:...
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The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2021
It’s been a really weird year, hasn’t it? Over the course of the Panera Bread we are very much still living through, we’ve talked a lot about how reading habits have changed. Many expressed an...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards!
The Shirley Jackson Awards took place during this past weekend’s virtual ReaderCon 31, and revealed this year’s winners during a pre-recorded ceremony. The award is handed out annually to works that...
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Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes
Did you know that thousands of speculative fiction books are published every year? Did you also know that although most are in the 300-400 page range, books can be as hefty as a doorstopper or as brief...
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Slasher 101: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Jade Daniels—or, JD—is a horror-obsessed loner staggering through the final months of her senior year of high school in rural Proofrock, Idaho. She writes extra-credit papers on “Slasher 101” for her...
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Read “Wait for Night” by Stephen Graham Jones
A day laborer hired to clean up a flooded creek outside of Boulder, Colorado uncovers what could be a valuable find—if it doesn’t kill him first… Read Stephen Graham Jones’ short story “Wait for...
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Five SFF Books About Road Trips
To my mind, a road trip is not an exodus or a flight from danger. It can start with one of those things but only transcends to “road trip” status when the danger is over, and the participants are...
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Horror’s Ongoing Reckoning: The Final Girl Seizes Control of Her Story
Who is the Final Girl? Why does she matter? And where does her story go after she survives the events that make her into the Final Girl? In other words, what happens after the Final Girl kills the...
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Men, Women, and Chainsaws
It’s been two years since Jenna’s ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he’s back in town and she wants to payback. One night, she stumbles upon a bloodthirsty Camaro that may be...
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Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for April 2022
April had me in a contemplative mood, it seems. My ten favorite short speculative stories dealt with depression, death, moral gray areas, trauma, and grief, as well as a couple of gruesome murder...
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Five SFF Road Trip Stories to Feed Your Wanderlust
To my mind, a road trip is not an exodus or a flight from danger. It can start with one of those things but only transcends to “road trip” status when the danger is over, and the participants are...
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5 Horror Books That Will Forever Change How You Look at Everyday Objects
Something that I love about horror, no matter its subgenre, is when it can take something harmless and ordinary—like a rubber ball, or a button, or a VHS tape—and turn it into a symbol of terror. We...
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Five Coming-of-Age Horror Novels That Explore the Perils of Adolescence
Sometimes being a teenager can feel like a real-life horror story. Growing up comes with the excitement of newfound freedom and first love, but it also brings hard-learned lessons and painful conflict....
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Five Chilling Horror Novellas to Read This Fall
October is, as I noted in an earlier essay, a season for ghosts and ghouls. Days are shortening, winter is coming (at least for us folks in the northern hemisphere). It’s a season for melancholy...
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Stephen Graham Jones on Writing, the Pantheon of Horror, and Clowns
Stephen Graham Jones is busy. In an earlier draft of this interview I included my comment that his work is challenging—by that I meant both emotionally, like all good horror is, but also that he’s so...
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Read an Excerpt From Stephen Graham Jones’ Don’t Fear the Reaper
Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over… We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Stephen...
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Slasher 102: Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Four years after the bloody events of My Heart is a Chainsaw, Jade Daniels is released from prison and returns to Proofrock just in time for the winter holidays. The community has, on the surface,...
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Buzz Buzz! Recommended Reading for the Characters of Yellowjackets
Like most authors who used to be booksellers, I never shut the fuck up about having been a bookseller, (you can take the bookseller out of the bookstore, but I’ll never stop handselling, etc.) but...
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5 SFF Road Trip Stories to Fuel Your Wanderlust
To my mind, a road trip is not an exodus or a flight from danger. It can start with one of those things but only transcends to “road trip” status when the danger is over, and the participants are...
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Five Horror Books About Fearsome Final Girls
Fans of horror recognize the way in which tropes inform storytelling within the genre across mediums. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the archetype of the final girl—a lone surviving heroine at...
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Five Horror Books Set in Seemingly Idyllic Small Towns
Small-town settings are popular in many literary genres, from cozy murder mysteries to spicy romances. In the hands of horror authors, these towns often feel cheerful and charming to begin with, but...
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5 Horror Books Featuring Ladies Who Kill
My teen daughter recently voiced a complaint: Why are all the hot serial killers in popular media dudes? Because, yes, we’re both big into Hannibal. And after some thought, I had to admit that most...
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Five Gripping Ghost Stories From the Last Decade
Halloween is almost upon us. In my part of North America it is the season of ghost stories, delightfully macabre tales designed to distract from the very real possibility that we may be attacked and...
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