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Audio Collaboration: Mike Thorn + Yosh Des

Former apartment neighbors Mike Thorn and Yosh Des bonded over their shared commitment to creative expression and a mutual interest in industrial and electronic music. For their first collaboration, Mike recorded a reading of his short story "Entropy Major" (included in his latest collection, Peel Back and See), and Yosh composed immersive soundscape accompaniment.

Listen to "Entropy Major" on YouTube.

Or BANDCAMP.

Shelter for the Damned Included on Rich Duncan’s “Favorite Reads of 2021” List

“Shelter for the Damned is loaded with nightmarish scenes and if the idea of a dark coming-of-age story meeting Kathe Koja’s The Cipher intrigues you, this is definitely the book for you.”

Read the post and see the list.

Peel Back and See Reviewed on Howling Libraries

“Mike has a way of paying homage to his influences while creating something incredibly fresh and new, and combining very modern struggles with elements of fear that have plagued humanity for ages.”

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Mike Thorn's Favorite First Reads of 2021

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Film International, “The Houses That Hooper Built – American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper”

“This juxtaposition between some admittedly cheesy films and their serious thematic undercurrents can be jarring, and nowhere is this effect more evident than in Mike Thorn’s ‘Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile.’ These films are not the director’s best by a longshot (although the former, his 1976 follow-up to Texas Chain Saw, has enjoyed a cult following), but Thorn skillfully dissects how they illustrate ‘the [triune brain] theory…that human cognition’s roots can be traced to the nonhuman animal world’ (106). The boundary separating these worlds dissolves, and viewers may find themselves rooting more for the so-called ‘monsters’ than the oblivious humans exploiting them.”

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“A New Kind of Drug” (Darkest Hours) Included on Steve Talks Books & Stuff’s Top Short Stories of 2021 List

Watch the video.

Shelter for the Damned Included on Waylon Jordan’s Top Seven Horror Books of 2021 (iHorror)

“Mike Thorn likes to push his readers’ buttons in surprising ways. I’ve never read two stories by him that were really alike and yet there exists a quintessential Mike Thorn story. Shelter for the Damned is a prime example of his artistry.”

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Peel Back and See Reviewed on Char’s Horror Corner

“I could probably sit here and write an essay on why I think Mike Thorn is an author to watch, why I think he takes a great deal of time and effort to make his tales accessible and relatable, and why I think his creative imagination is going to take the world by storm at some point.”

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DAILY DEAD Q&A: Author Mike Thorn Discusses His New Short Story Collection PEEL BACK AND SEE

“With the horror holiday shopping season upon us (it should be noted that Peel Back and See would fit very nicely in a stocking), we caught up with Thorn in a new Q&A feature to discuss the timely themes rippling through his latest short story collection, the collaborative joys of working with JournalStone on all three of his book releases this year, and some of his holiday horror movie recommendations to help get you into the spooky spirit of the season.”

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Peel Back and See Featured on Steve Stred’s Top Anthologies/Collections Read in 2021 List

“No surprise here, but when Mike Thorn decides to go dark, it goes dark. It was great to see these stories snap and crack with the energy Mike is known for and we got to revisit a couple oldies, but goodies.”

See the full list.