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Mike Thorn discusses Bram Stoker’s “Gibbet Hill” on CBC Eyeopener

Loren McGinnis interviewed Mike Thorn about the recently uncovered Bram Stoker story “Gibbet Hill" for CBC Eyeopener.

Listen here.

Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja

Listen to Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja.

In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more.

Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces live and virtual events. Her award-winning books include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Under The Poppy and Velocities, and she is currently at work on the Dark Factory immersive fiction project including Dark Factory, Dark Park and Dark Matter. Catherine the Ghost is her newest novel.

You can find her at kathekoja.com and on Instagram, Facebook and Threads.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mouse and His Child; Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
The Default World – Naomi Kanakia
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett – James Knowlson
A Place of Greater Safety; Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
Rimbaud: A Biography – Graham Robb
Frankenstein; The Last Man – Mary Shelley
Lost Boy Lost Girl – Peter Straub
The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy – David Tame

Mike Thorn featured in short documentary, American Twilight: 50 Years of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Once Upon a Time in Texas...Celebrating 50 Years of Tobe Hooper & The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

In this new short documentary, America's foremost drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs, and several contributors to American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper provide insights into Hooper and his enigmatic filmography and contributions to the horror genre. Featuring commentary by Mike Thorn.

Shepherd guest post: Mike Thorn’s 3 favorite reads from September 2023 to October 2024

The folks at Shepherd asked me to name the 3 best books I've read between September 30 2023 and October 1 2024.

See my choices here.

Peel Back and See reviewed on Stranger Sights

“I think the central theme here is that we are peeling back the layers of society, and of humanity, to see what lies beneath – and it ain’t pretty.”

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Order Peel Back and See.

CFP for Monstrum 8.2: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror (Guest Editor: Mike Thorn)

Submissions are now open for Monstrum 8.2, a special issue devoted to horror and ecohorror’s engagements with veganism and animal liberation. We seek proposals for essays (5,000-7,000 words) devoted to horror texts, modalities, and philosophies with a focus on veganism or animal rights.

More details here.

Mike Thorn reviews Twixt (In Review Online)

“The film’s lush, otherworldly dreamscapes foreground the theme of time by contrasting contemporary film technology against the aesthetics of Gothic pasts. Coppola fills Baltimore’s nocturnal visions with Expressionist gestures: tilted crosses and jagged shadows summon the ghosts of Murnau, Wiene, and Lang.”

Read the full review.

Mike Thorn reviews Never Let Go (In Review Online)

“Director Alexandre Aja’s latest film, Never Let Go, occupies a deliberately liminal space. Its threadbare plot suggests a post-apocalyptic near future, but its central family is stuck in a Gothic past.”

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Mike Thorn discusses A Nightmare on Elm Street (Almost Major podcast)

I joined the Almost Major crew again to discuss Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Listen to the episode on Spotify or Apple.

Booklisti: “Weirding the Gothic: Literary Horror Collisions”

Booklisti invited me to create a list.

Check out my choices for Weirding the Gothic: Literary Horror Collisions.