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June 6, 2021

Mike Thorn on Sister Luna Podcast

“On this episode I interview horror author Mike Thorn. His stories gave me nightmares but this conversation served up the laughs.

There’s a wicked poltergeist story and a double dicked demon. What more could you ask for?”

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June 4, 2021

June 3, 2021

Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition Featured in Calgary Herald

In the introduction to Calgary writer Mike Thorn’s short-story collection, Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition, American horror aficionado Sadie Hartmann offers a list of the complex subgenres found inside.

Hartmann, who goes by the name Mother Horror, found traces of everything from “gross-out body horror,” to “satirical black comedy,” “slasher,” “urban legends” and even the “Satanic panic” of the 1980s in Thorn’s work.

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May 27, 2021

“Horror is the Truth” — Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition Reviewed on Tuerlemot

“Each story in Darkest Hours reads like a blast of intense sound. Crisp, erudite and intense, these stories speak with uncanny voices that occasionally converse with one another (as we’ll explore in this essay). Thorn builds narrative worlds that inhabit a set of thematic coordinates that I propose we recognize with the term Thornian.’ The Thornian exists in the interplay between addiction, violence, academic pretensions and the supernatural monsters which push these other themes to their limits.”

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May 25, 2021

Taylor Caitlyn Reviews Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition

"If you're not a horror reader, but you really like horror movies, I think this would be a good collection to dive into reading horror."

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