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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

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March 30, 2021

An Interview with Mike Thorn: Shelter for the Damned (Ladies of the Fright)

It was such a treat to get to chat with Mike Thorn. He’s in good company here with his early exposure to Stine and King, but the way he stacks jobs is pretty commendable as well. In this interview, we’re getting to know Mike and celebrating the release of his new book Shelter for the Damned .

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Published on March 30, 2021 08:34 • Tags: author-interview, calgary-author, canadian-author, fiction, horror, interview, journalstone, ladies-of-the-fright, mackenzie-kiera, mike-thorn, shelter-for-the-damned

March 25, 2021

Mike Thorn Discusses Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Black Cat" on Staring Into the Abyss

"Author Mike Thorn (Shelter for the Damned) joins us for a spoiler-filled discussion of the 1843 short story, “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe. Before that, though, we each discuss our Week In Horror with brief reviews of John Lees’s latest comic series Hotell, Sci-Fi & Scary’s body horror anthology Twisted Anatomy, Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White, Joanna Koch’s The Wingspan of Severed Hands, John Farris’s The Axman Cometh, and Alessandro Manzetti’s collection of horror poems inspired by Jack the Ripper, Whitechapel Rhapsody."

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Published on March 25, 2021 08:32 • Tags: alessandro-manzetti, alex-white, author-interview, calgary-author, canadian-author, edgar-allan-poe, fiction, horror, hotell, interview, joanna-koch, john-farris, john-lees, journalstone, matt-brandenburg, mike-thorn, podcast, shelter-for-the-damned, the-axman-cometh, the-black-cat, the-wingspan-of-severed-hands, twisted-anatomy, whitechapel-rhapsody