Amazon's Wheel of Time Trailer, and a Ranking of 25 Great SFF Deaths!

To view this email as a web page, go [here.]( [Tor.com Newsletter]( [Forward to a Friend]( IT'S HAPPENING! [The First Trailer for Amazon's Wheel of Time Series Is Here!]( We've been waiting and waiting, and it's finally here! Check out the first trailer for Amazon’s adaptation of the Wheel of Time series here, and share your excitement in the comments. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( IT COULD BE WORSE [Choose Wisely: Ranking 25 Memorable Deaths in SFF]( Would it be better to be Blobbed to death (i.e. killed by the The Blob, in the Steve McQueen classic, The Blob) or Thinged to death (i.e. murdered and taken over by the alien from The Thing from Another World/The Thing)? And yes, obviously, “Neither, thanks!” is a valid response, but if you had to choose? Here is our absolutely comprehensive and irrefutable list of possible sci-fi, fantasy, and horror universe deaths. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( MARK AS READ [Decisions Are Hard: Picking What to Read Next]( You’ve turned the last page of your book. Maybe you let it fall heavily on your coffee table and sigh a satisfied sigh. Maybe you enjoy finding the book its new home on your shelves. Whatever your end-of-book rituals, if you’re a regular reader, you’ll eventually arrive at one question: What do I read next? In a new column, Molly Templeton ponders a reader’s hardest decision. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( FOR THE LOVE OF STORIES [Seven Speculative Stories About Stories]( Do you have a helpless biological response to anyone who suggests—in any context, at any time—that stories matter? Alix E. Harrow does, because they matter very much. So what could be better than stories about stories? Harrow shares seven speculative stories centered on books, folklore, history, and storytelling. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( YOU BOW TO NO ONE [The Return of the King Crowned a New Ruler in Hollywood]( The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is one of only three films in history to win 11 Oscars. That an SFX-heavy epic won so many Oscars isn’t surprising; that a high fantasy film did is. In the latest installment of the Movies of Middle-earth series, Austin Gilkeson dives into how The Return of the King might be the weakest film of Jackson’s trilogy, while still being a very good movie that marked a turning point for fantasy cinema. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( IN THE MOUNTAINS [The Hills are Haunted; the Mountains are Hungry: Digging Into Appalachian SFF]( It’s difficult to imagine, but the Appalachian range contains some of the oldest mountains in the world. All this orogen history has to mean something. These mountains know a thing or two. While there are plenty of magical stories set across the Americas, finding representations of specifically Appalachian magic proved a little tougher. Linda Codega spotlights six essential speculative stories that take place in Appalachia. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( COOLING OFF [Five Chilly SF Stories to Help Beat the Summer Heat]( It’s been a long hot summer (if you’re reading this in the northern hemisphere), and plenty of folks out there are excited to see the temperature shift towards cooler breezes and chillier landscapes. Happily, science fiction offers plenty of stories set on icy worlds and frigid versions of Earth! Here are a few favorites... [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( GHOSTS IN THE ATTIC [Becoming the Thing That Haunts the House: Gothic Fiction and the Fear of Change]( It starts with a tragedy. A murder. A betrayal. A loss. This is the conceit of the Gothic house: a person, a presence, who becomes so attached to their place of residence that, for better or worse, they cannot bear to leave. Holly Kybett Smith discusses the relationship between haunting and home in Gothic texts by Daphne du Maurier, Helen Oyeyemi, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, and others. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ORIGINAL FICTION [“The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie” by Kathleen Jennings]( In a fairy tale equal parts gorgeous and gruesome, village couples seek approval for marriage from a stag with golden rings adorning its horns. That is until one suitor, determined to convince a woman to fall in love with him, makes a rash decision. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( Follow Tor.com to get updates on all of our original fiction. 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