Mike Thorn's Blog, page 40
September 29, 2017
Early Review for DARKEST HOURS
Brandon Wilson of The Weal wrote a cool early review of Darkest Hours (coming this November from Unnerving Magazine's book line).
This is my favorite excerpt: "Thorn’s stories seem to nearly always feature the desires of their characters becoming corrupted and turning back on them tenfold. It’s really this theme that keeps the reader’s attention, that their initially innocent desires could be twisted, corrupted and fed back into some unspeakable primal evil."
You can now read the full review online.
This is my favorite excerpt: "Thorn’s stories seem to nearly always feature the desires of their characters becoming corrupted and turning back on them tenfold. It’s really this theme that keeps the reader’s attention, that their initially innocent desires could be twisted, corrupted and fed back into some unspeakable primal evil."
You can now read the full review online.
September 11, 2017
Andy Muschietti’s It Struggles with Adaptation
"There is no hard and fast rule for parsing out the relationship between literary sources and cinematic adaptations. Context is key. When it comes to Andy Muschietti’s It (loosely based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel), the correspondence between versions is too complicated and vital to ignore."
Read my full review on the film in Vague Visages.
Read my full review on the film in Vague Visages.
August 27, 2017
Losing the Plot Interview Link Now Live
Due to some unforeseen technological things, I posted a dead link yesterday for my appearance on Leo X. Robertson's "Losing the Plot" Podcast.
That interview is now live and freely available for listening here.
I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down with Leo to discuss my forthcoming collection Darkest Hours, the influence of music and film, the horrors of our contemporary world, among many other things!
That interview is now live and freely available for listening here.
I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down with Leo to discuss my forthcoming collection Darkest Hours, the influence of music and film, the horrors of our contemporary world, among many other things!
August 26, 2017
Appearance on Leo X. Robertson's "Losing the Plot" Podcast
I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down with Leo X. Robertson to discuss my forthcoming collection Darkest Hours, the influence of music and film, the horrors of our contemporary world, and many other things!
You can hear the full interview for free here.
You can hear the full interview for free here.
July 29, 2017
New Story "Sabbatical" in Dark Moon Digest
My story “Sabbatical,” about a dissertation-writing reprieve gone horrifically awry, is now available in Dark Moon Digest #28.
Issue synopsis: In the twenty-eighth issue of Dark Moon Digest: a hardware store offers a rewards program you can’t refuse; an Internet meme goes viral in more ways than one; a little girl gets a new pet; a woman loses her sense of identity; a man and woman reluctantly do their job; a starlet gets more than she bargains for; a father gives his son a special 18th birthday present; and two college students isolate themselves in a cabin in the woods to finish their dissertations. Fiction by Tom W. Miller, Patrick Lacey, Phillip A. Myers, Shannon Lawrence, E. M. Hurst, Robert Dean, Ryan C. Bradley, and Mike Thorn. Columns by Jay Wilburn and George Lea, and reviews of Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy Robert Johnson and Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King.
The issue is available to order here.
Issue synopsis: In the twenty-eighth issue of Dark Moon Digest: a hardware store offers a rewards program you can’t refuse; an Internet meme goes viral in more ways than one; a little girl gets a new pet; a woman loses her sense of identity; a man and woman reluctantly do their job; a starlet gets more than she bargains for; a father gives his son a special 18th birthday present; and two college students isolate themselves in a cabin in the woods to finish their dissertations. Fiction by Tom W. Miller, Patrick Lacey, Phillip A. Myers, Shannon Lawrence, E. M. Hurst, Robert Dean, Ryan C. Bradley, and Mike Thorn. Columns by Jay Wilburn and George Lea, and reviews of Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy Robert Johnson and Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King.
The issue is available to order here.
July 27, 2017
Talking Stephen King's It with A.M. Novak in the latest Devious Dialogue
Devious Dialogues is a horror-themed column on Vague Visages. Every month, critic A.M. Novak and I discuss a new franchise, and this time around we've taken on Stephen King's It (including its adaptations).
Read the conversation here.
Read the conversation here.
June 30, 2017
New "Thorn's Thoughts" Entries in Unnerving Magazine: Nicole Cushing & Gwendolyn Kiste
I've reviewed two more books on Unnerving Magazine's website this month: Nicole Cushing's The Sadist's Bible and Gwendolyn Kiste's And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe.
Also check out my first entry for the "Thorn's Thoughts" column, on Robert Dunbar's The Streets.
Also check out my first entry for the "Thorn's Thoughts" column, on Robert Dunbar's The Streets.
June 27, 2017
Unnerving Magazine Issue #3 Available in Digital Format Now (Features New Fiction by Yours Truly)
Issue #3 of Unnerving Magazine is delivered digitally in .mobi, .pdf & .epub within 24 hours of purchase.
This issue sees a heartrending tale from Paul Michael Anderson (author of Bones Are Made to Be Broken), flowery destruction from Betty Rocksteady (author of Like Jagged Teeth), infinite dread from Mike Thorn, tables turned from Bill Adler Jr. (author of No Time to Say Goodbye), physical oddity from Mary Crosbie, costly incantation for Erica Ruppert, troublesome birth from William Marchese, and household disturbance as well as an excerpt from The Grimhaven Disaster from Leo X. Robertson. Gwendolyn Kiste offers up thoughts on the suburban gothic worlds of David Lynch and Shirley Jackson. Agent Gina Panetierri, editor Jess Landry, and publisher Pete Kahle offer thoughts on querying and submissions.
This issue is stacked!
This issue sees a heartrending tale from Paul Michael Anderson (author of Bones Are Made to Be Broken), flowery destruction from Betty Rocksteady (author of Like Jagged Teeth), infinite dread from Mike Thorn, tables turned from Bill Adler Jr. (author of No Time to Say Goodbye), physical oddity from Mary Crosbie, costly incantation for Erica Ruppert, troublesome birth from William Marchese, and household disturbance as well as an excerpt from The Grimhaven Disaster from Leo X. Robertson. Gwendolyn Kiste offers up thoughts on the suburban gothic worlds of David Lynch and Shirley Jackson. Agent Gina Panetierri, editor Jess Landry, and publisher Pete Kahle offer thoughts on querying and submissions.
This issue is stacked!
June 22, 2017
Devious Dialogues: A.M. Novak and Mike Thorn on FOX's The Exorcist
In April, A.M. Novak and Mike Thorn discussed the Exorcist film series in detail. FOX recently announced a second season for Jeremy Slater’s television adaptation, so Novak and Thorn discussed the news at the request of a “Devious Dialogues” reader.
Full article.
Full article.
June 14, 2017
New Feature at Unnerving Magazine: Thorn's Thoughts
Check out "Thorn's Thoughts" in Unnerving Magazine. For my first entry, I discuss Robert Dunbar's novel The Streets.
Full review.
Full review.
