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Stephen King Kicks Off Horror Webcomic Little Green God of Agony

Stephen King has partnered up with comics artist Dennis Calero to publish new webcomic Little Green God of Agony, based off the short story of the same name featured in 2011 anthology, A Book of...

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Everything’s Better with a Mute Button

It seems as though the last time I saw Buffy in a psychology lecture, she was daydreaming about Parker. Now she’s traded up to Sexy Roleplaying 101: Mad Scientist Maggie has recruited her for a class...

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Release Date for Halo: Silentium Updated

The release date for Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear, the final book in The Forerunner Saga trilogy which concludes this story of the the enigmatic creators and builders of the Halos, has been updated to...

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Who Could That Be At This Hour? (Excerpt)

We’ve got an excerpt from the new Lemony Snicket book, Who Could That Be at This Hour?, coming out tomorrow from Little Brown Young Readers!Also, if you’d like to see Lemony Snicket in person, there’s...

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Space Opera Goes Boom. Jack Campbell’s The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight

I discovered the novels of Jack Campbell, a pseudonym for writer and former U.S. naval officer John G. Hemry, in the spring of this year. At which point, I believe I devoured them all in the space of a...

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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Top 10, Part Two

Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...

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Hear Scary Stories Read Aloud this Friday in Brooklyn!

Ever wanted to know what Genevieve Valentine’s favorite scary story is? Or Maybe John Wray’s? Well, now you can find out! Along with Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Emily Asher-Perrin, they’ll be reading...

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Blood Song (Excerpt)

Take a look at this excerpt from the first installment in Cat Adams' Blood Singer series, Blood Song:Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and...

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Pirates, Assassins, and Magic: Cassandra Rose Clarke’s The Assassin’s Curse

Kirkus Book Reviews, home of famously cranky and hard-to-please reviewers, unbent so far as to give The Assassin’s Curse a starred review. With praise and blurbing from the likes of Tamora Pierce and...

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Iron Man 3’s Mandarin Revealed, His Origins Explained

We’ll have the shiny full trailer by tomorrow, but for now, we’ve got some tantalizing new tidbits from producer Kevin Feige on Iron Man 3, including the lowdown on Tony Stark’s new nemesis, the...

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Morning Roundup: Giant Classic Star Trek Family Portrait

Artist Dusty Abell has achieved something astounding: an awesome portrait which represents every single episode of the Classic Star Trek, all together! (This is only a detail of PART of the...

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Too Fond

In “Too Fond,” by author Leanna Renee Hieber, Eloise Browne's leaden heart becomes softened by the entrance into her world of Mr. McGill, the owner of the nearby mill. His tragic story and her...

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Sleeps With Monsters: Is Atrocity Off-Limits or Fair Game?

What are the rules for writing about atrocity? Are there any? Should there be? We come back and back and back around to the issue of rape, but what about torture, mass murder, genocide?Susan R....

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Ghosts From A to Z

To help celebrate Ghost Week on Tor.com, we’ve put together an informative-yet-creepy list of some of our favorite specters, shades, phantasms, and restless spirits from popular culture, literature,...

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Who Could That Be at This Hour? is the Best Lemony Snicket Book Yet

It wouldn’t be fair to call Lemony Snicket’s real world alter-ego Daniel Handler “underrated,” but I’m going to go ahead and assert that people should be more crazy about him than they are. There are a...

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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 23

WOTers assemble, yo! It’s a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapter 40-42 of Towers of Midnight, in which Perrin’s blacksmithing brings all the boys to the yard, and it is fucking awesome,...

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“Where a Ghost and a Prince Meet...”

Hamlet is possibly the greatest work of literature in the history of the English language, but it sure isn’t a very good ghost story.First off, the ghost of Hamlet’s father, the late King of Denmark,...

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Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is Beautiful

The most remarkable thing about the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland has nothing to do with the ghosts. When I say “Haunted Mansion” in this post, I am referring specifically to the attraction at...

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Ghost Week Comics Pack!

For Ghost Week here on Tor.com, we're giving away two great ghost-filled comics! Enter to win Vera Brosgol's Anya's Ghost and Faith Erin Hicks' Friends With Boys for hours of haunted fun!Check below...

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Death’s Apprentice (Excerpt)

Check out this excerpt from K. W. Jeter and Gareth Jefferson Jones's Death's Apprentice, out on October 30 from St. Martin's Press:Death’s seventeen-year-old apprentice must learn to stand on his own...

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