Tom Doherty Associates, which includes Tor, Forge, Tor Teen, Starscape and Tor.com, is launching a horror imprint called Nightfire, whose first titles will appear in early 2021.
Tom Doherty Associates president and publisher Fritz Foy will be publisher of Nightfire, and TDA will add editorial staff and marketing and publicity staff. The focus will be on "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," the company said. Besides books, e-books and audiobooks, Nightfire titles will include podcasts, graphic novels and other media.
Foy commented: "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."