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April 27, 2021

Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition – Review ARCs Available

I now have digital ARCs of Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition (coming June 11 from Journalstone). This version includes all 16 original stories, plus 17 essays on horror cinema.

DM me or email mikethorn@live.com if you’re interested in reviewing and/or interviewing.
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Published on April 27, 2021 08:44 • Tags: 2021-horror, book-review, darkest-hours, film, film-critic, horror-cinema, horror-fiction, interview, journalstone, mike-thorn, review, short-story-collection

April 26, 2021

April 23, 2021

Losing the Plot Episode 042 – Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn returns to Losing the Plot talk about his latest novel, Shelter for the Damned but he also has a rerelease of his short story collection Darkest Hours coming out and a new collection, Peel Back and See, out towards the end of the year! Wild!

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Published on April 23, 2021 11:18 • Tags: author-interview, bully, calgary-author, canadian-author, fiction, horror, interview, journalstone, ken-park, larry-clark, leo-x-robertson, losing-the-plot, mike-thorn, podcast, shelter-for-the-damned

April 21, 2021

Kathryn Owen Reviews Darkest Hours on Final Women: Horror from a Woman’s Perspective

“Many of the stories in this collection concern the topics of academia (with academics being alternately portrayed as buffoonish or somewhat sinister) and drinking/drunkenness; the two are most amusingly combined in the clever ‘Speaking of Ghosts.'”

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Published on April 21, 2021 10:59 • Tags: academic-horror, book-review, calgary-author, canadian-fiction, canadian-horror, darkest-hours, fiction, final-women, horror, kathryn-owen, mike-thorn, review, shelter-for-the-damned

April 20, 2021

April 19, 2021

April 14, 2021

Review of Shelter for the Damned on Char’s Horror Corner

“This isn’t your basic coming of age novel where everything is nostalgic and beautiful. SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED is brutal in some ways, but also quite realistic.”

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Published on April 14, 2021 10:32 • Tags: 2021-horror, book-review, calgary-author, canadian-fiction, char-s-horror-corner, charlene-cochrane, coming-of-age, cosmic-horror, fiction, horror, journalstone, literature, mike-thorn, review, shelter-for-the-damned, suburban-horror

April 9, 2021

Interview with Mike Thorn on House of Mystery

Mike Thorn sat down with House of Mystery's Alan R. Warren and David North-Martino to discuss Shelter for the Damned .

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Published on April 09, 2021 09:13 • Tags: alan-r-warren, author-interview, calgary-author, canadian-author, david-north-martino, fiction, horror, house-of-mystery, interview, journalstone, mike-thorn, shelter-for-the-damned

April 8, 2021

Review of Shelter for the Damned on The Coycaterpillar Reads

“Thorn has a cutthroat ability to reel you in, a writing style so sharp and penetrating that it threatens to tear you open, layer by layer … Shelter for the Damned felt like the lovechild of Barker and King.”

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Published on April 08, 2021 09:28 • Tags: 2021-horror, book-review, calgary-author, canadian-fiction, clive-barker, coming-of-age, cosmic-horror, coycaterpillar, fiction, horror, journalstone, literature, mike-thorn, review, shelter-for-the-damned, stephen-king, suburban-horror, the-coycaterpillar-reads

April 6, 2021