Mike Thorn's Blog, page 35
March 26, 2018
Darkest Hours Reviewed on HorrorTalk
"The author of Darkest Hours, a collection of short stories, has truly impeccable taste. Not only did Mike Thorn complete a master’s degree thesis on John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, the endnotes mention his love of the influential industrial metal band Godflesh. If Mike and I ever met up for coffee, we would have a grand old time reminiscing about the mighty Godflesh, whom I haven’t seen in concert for a few years, but remain one of my personal favourite noise bands."
Read the full review.
Read the full review.
March 16, 2018
Music for a Brutal, Contemporary Planet: A Selective Alice Cooper Retrospective
It is difficult to pinpoint any individual album in Alice Cooper’s massive, eclectic discography as “summative” or “trademark.” Certainly, his original band enjoyed an inspired and singular run from 1971 (Love It to Death) to 1973 (Billion Dollar Babies), and his first official solo album Welcome to My Nightmare announced a fully realized vision of conceptual horror rock, complete with a guest appearance by Vincent Price and accompanied by a lavish, theatrical tour production. However, Cooper the solo artist is perhaps best characterized by his entire oeuvre in all its shifting, diverse and ambivalent forms — this singer-songwriter is the progenitor of shock rock as vaudevillian grand guignol; he is a meta-reflective and identity-shifting social satirist, and he is an artist of far-reaching, sophisticated conceptual range who proudly inhabits (and often embodies) that which some might call “low art.”
Read the full article in Vague Visages.
Read the full article in Vague Visages.
March 15, 2018
Darkest Hours Review on Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer
"This is a fantastic collection of horror short stories, to be frank. The ability of the author to move through so many different kinds of horror scenarios, and to invoke so many different emotional responses in such a short space of time, is surely the mark of someone who ‘gets’ horror as a genre. Mr Thorn has certainly made his mark on the genre as a whole, and also on me: I look forward to reading more horror stories, and especially any more that come from his pen. I can only hope that we see more of his fiction in the near-future, and whole-heartedly recommend that you pick up this anthology."
Read the full review here.
Read the full review here.
March 13, 2018
New Review of Darkest Hours on The Horror Bookshelf
“One of the best things about running a blog dedicated to horror fiction – and hell, just being a reader in general – is discovering new writers. One of the best and most rewarding feelings as a horror fan is reading a new author’s work and being blown away by their talent and the awe of discovering something cool. That is the exact feeling I got when I first sat down to crack open Mike Thorn’s debut story collection, Darkest Hours.”
Read the full review on The Horror Bookshelf.
Read the full review on The Horror Bookshelf.
March 12, 2018
Guest Post on The Horror Bookshelf: Favorite King Book for Every Decade
"Today’s post on The Horror Bookshelf comes from Mike Thorn, who released his debut collection Darkest Hours towards the end of 2017 through Unnerving. Thorn’s Darkest Hours is a collection of 16 stories that run the gamut of the various horror sub-genres from bizarro to splatterpunk and everything in between. Just a few of the things you will find in Darkest Hours is alternate dimensions, deadly cults, ghosts, manipulations of reality, human monsters and so much more. I will be posting my review of Darkest Hours tomorrow, so please stop by and check that out as well. Today, Mike stopped by to share his favorite Stephen King books from each decade of his career. What are your favorite King books? Does your list look like Mike’s or a little different?
Read the full post in The Horror Bookshelf.
Read the full post in The Horror Bookshelf.
March 10, 2018
Red Lace Reviews on Darkest Hours
"With monsters that hunger for flesh, ghosts that lie in wait, and brutality at the hands of humanity – this collection certainly has it all. Delving into the satirical, chilling and downright disgusting, this is a must read for those that like a bit of horror in their lives."
This reviewer seems to have mixed feelings about Darkest Hours, but she still wrote one of the most thoughtful, comprehensive write-ups I've read so far.
Read it here.
This reviewer seems to have mixed feelings about Darkest Hours, but she still wrote one of the most thoughtful, comprehensive write-ups I've read so far.
Read it here.
March 9, 2018
New Review of Darkest Hours by S.J. Budd
Horror author S.J. Budd just posted a generous new review of
Darkest Hours
!
"... you know each one of these tortured souls is going to have something terrible happen to them and half the fun of reading this collection is trying to determine which angle Mike Thorn is coming from."
Read the full review on her website.
"... you know each one of these tortured souls is going to have something terrible happen to them and half the fun of reading this collection is trying to determine which angle Mike Thorn is coming from."
Read the full review on her website.
February 25, 2018
A Chat with Mike Thorn on Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews
Curtis Freeman of Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews had me on to talk about Darkest Hours, horror movies and other stuff.
Check it out.
Check it out.
February 19, 2018
Guest Post on Where the Reader Grows: Mike Thorn talks Nemesis, Spontaneous Combustion & The Winding Sheet
For Where the Reader Grows, I wrote a guest post about my favorite book, film and album released the year I was born.
Read the post here.
Read the post here.
February 13, 2018
New Review in Vague Visages: "The Digital Perverse: Dario Argento's Dracula 3D"
For Vague Visages, I wrote about Dario Argento's Dracula 3D as a kind of twisted counterpoint to James Cameron's Avatar.
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
