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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Interview in Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews

Curtis Freeman interviewed me on Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews. I discuss Darkest Hours, beer, writing rituals and many other things.

Read the full interview here.

Writing Horror Stories While Completing a Master’s Degree — A Surprisingly Positive Testimony

Academiology's editors invited me to contribute a post about my experiences completing my M.A. while also writing Darkest Hours.

Read the full post here.

Appearance on Writer's Block (CJSW)

For the most recent episode of Writer’s Block on CJSW, I answered the Writer’s Block Questionnaire. The episode also features a reading by Clea Roberts and an interview with the great Suzette Mayr. Stream online.

NOTE: Just to be clear, when I describe Trump as someone who can be "funny," what I mean to say is that Trump himself is a disgraceful joke worthy of mockery.  

Read the Full Critics' Star Wars Dialogue Series in MUBI Notebook

MUBI Notebook ran a 5-part dialogue on George Lucas's six Star Wars films, which I wrote with some of my favorite working critics/filmmakers (Isiah Medina, Chelsea
Phillips-Carr, Isaac Goes, and Neil Bahadur). The full series is now available to read online:

I. A Long Time Ago
II. Avant-Garde vs. Classical
III. Art and Technology
IV. The Griffith Legacy
V. Revision