Stranger Things is back, and we haven’t showered in days. We have binged the entire new season, however. Stranger Things 2 brings back our favorite tween outcasts and outsiders, catching us up a year after the events that ended the first season and expanding the mythology of the creepy mirror world of the Upside-Down. The […]
After the Federal raids on Innsmouth and the destruction of Deep Reef in 1928, the survivors of the Federal Government’s action against the town were rounded up and moved far away from the call of the ocean, kept purposefully apart from their elder god, slumbering in R’lyeh. Later, those survivors met new friends also sent to […]
Earlier this week, a VIP at Marvel comics earned the ire of about 82 percent of the internet when he tried to blame the publisher’s flagging sales on a recent strategy to push comics with “diverse” heroes, claiming readers just aren’t interested in buying those kinds of books. Plenty of folks have offered cogent rebuttals of […]
Some book titles seem designed to befuddle the reader. Others are only tangentially related to the contents of the novel. But sometimes, the title is so essential, so perfectly crafted, it tells you everything you need to know, laying out like a roadmap everything the book is trying to do. So it is with The […]
Next month, Tor.com Publishing will debut a new novella from the award-winning Kij Johnson (The Man Who Bridged the Mist). The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is a fascinating, gender-flipped reconsideration of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It’s a short, striking, lyrical work. Sample it below, and preorder it before its release on August 16.