Tom Doherty Associates (TDA) President and Publisher Fritz Foy announced today the creation of NIGHTFIRE, a new horror imprint that will join Tor, Forge, Tor Teen & Starscape, and Tor.com Publishing as part of Tom Doherty Associates.
Foy will be Publisher, and TDA will add dedicated staff in editorial, as well as supplemental staff in marketing and publicity. Under the Nightfire imprint, editors will acquire and publish across the breadth of the genre—from short story collections to novellas and novels, from standalone works to series, from dark fantasy to the supernatural, from originals to reprints of lost modern classics. In addition to publishing books across all formats (print, audio, and ebook), Nightfire’s releases will also include podcasts, graphic novels, and other media.
Of the new imprint, Foy remarked, “There is a renaissance in progress for all things horror. There is a new generation of horror fans who are setting weekend genre box office records, who are binge streaming episodic TV, subscribing to weekly chat and drama-based podcasts, and purchasing more graphic novels. More importantly, there are new literary voices we want to bring to our reading communities and followers…And also because we just plain love horror.”
The first publication is planned for early 2021.
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About Tom Doherty Associates (TDA):
Tom Doherty Associates (TDA)—better known by its imprint Tor Books—is a New York-based publisher of hardcover, trade softcover, and mass-market books founded in 1980. Imprints include Tor Books, one of the leading publishers in science fiction, fantasy, and horror since 1980; Forge Books, committed to publishing quality thrillers, mysteries, historical fiction, and general fiction; Tor Teen and Starscape, dedicated to publishing quality science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary fiction for young readers; and Tor.com Publishing, which publishes original fiction, art, and commentary on fantasy, science fiction, and related subjects across all media by a wide range of writers from all corners of the field.
It’s great to have a horror imprint. I look forward to it!
If you’re not calling it “Torror” you’re just leaving money on the table.
GREAT NEWS – but that logo isn’t nearly as memorable as the groovy “devil gargoyle” logo from the 80s and 90s!
Oh yeah – and PLEASE do a bad-ass FOLK HORROR anthology.
(Talk about leaving money on the table if you don’t…)
Excellent news! When will the imprint be open to submissions, and will they require an agent?
As I read the headline Jim Morrison belted our “try to set the night on fire” on my radio. No joke. Weird.
This is AWESOME news. Tor is my favorite imprint. Cannot WAIT to see what they do with horror! Bye-bye any extra money I might’ve had in 2021. WAIT – Why must we wait so long? How do I even know the zombies won’t eat me before then?!
This is exciting! TOR always has great books! NIGHTFIRE sounds like a great new imprint! Looking forward to checking it out
Any chance of reissues of old school Tor Horror titles? Dead White by Alan Ryan has been out of print for a while.
Do they require a person to have an agent or can you submit your work along with a query letter, synopsis and a chapter sample?
It’s great that TOR will be returning to regular horror releases! Many years ago I went up to Tom D. at the first World Horror Convention in Providence and told him he should publish my favorite horror writer Brian Lumley. Soon after he was published by Tor. I like to think I had a small part in that!!
que tal amigos? un gran saludo desde argentina. me llamo daniel verón y soy autor de cuentos y novelas de ciencia ficción, terror y fantasía. quisiera saber cómo hacer para enviarles algún cuento para su publicación. desde ya gracias.
Is an agent needed to submit one’s manuscript?
Ah, mother’s milk for the soul!