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October 9, 2023
New Mike Thorn story “Solstice Grinsztad” to be included in Solstice in Purgatory (coming November 7 from The Seventh Terrace)
“The Winter Solstice. It’s dark, it’s cold, it’s the most wonderful time of year. And it’s full of f*cking monsters. Don’t act like you don’t know. You’ve heard the cracking ice, seen tracks in the snow, smelled the bloody breath, and felt the rumbling Ho-ho-ho deep in your guts. We celebrate because we’re terrified of the dark outside our door.
Winter is an eternity, particularly in Purgatory. So, no matter which Terrace you call home, we invite you to while away the long, frozen nights with this curated collection of short tales from some of the most deliciously demented minds in horror. Some will make you laugh, some will make you shiver, and some…well, let’s just say nothing is sacred here. Enjoy, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll live to see the Equinox.”
Click here for more info and full table of contents.
Winter is an eternity, particularly in Purgatory. So, no matter which Terrace you call home, we invite you to while away the long, frozen nights with this curated collection of short tales from some of the most deliciously demented minds in horror. Some will make you laugh, some will make you shiver, and some…well, let’s just say nothing is sacred here. Enjoy, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll live to see the Equinox.”
Click here for more info and full table of contents.
September 14, 2023
María Teresa Morín reviews Un Refugio para los Condenados (Spanish translation of Shelter for the Damned)
“Sheds, nightmares, violence, family, friendship, addictions, sacrifices… A Shelter for the Damned, by Mike Thorn is a book with a frenetic pace that keeps you reading non-stop. That shows us the hells that the most perfect families can hide. That even hides a first love story between its pages. Which brings us three very different teenagers who will be involved in a nightmare from which it seems impossible to escape and which breaks our hearts. If you are looking for a horror reading that shocks you with its rawness, you have to give it a try.”
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Read the full review.
September 6, 2023
August 22, 2023
Mike Thorn interviewed on the Dead Body Bathtub podcast
“The inaugural episode of THE BRAIN DRAIN—the ghoulish DBBT aftershow—finds a guest in the tub! Author and critic Mike Thorn joins us to discuss horror, the creative process, the new audiobook edition of his first novel Shelter for the Damned, and his tub pick—SICK (2022), John Hyams’ taut and clever COVID-set slasher. We dissect screenwriter Kevin Williamson’s social diagnosis, Hyams’ dynamic camera, and the engagement of pandemic-as-horror.”
Listen here.
Listen here.
August 2, 2023
Mike Thorn reviews Satan Wants You for In Review Online
“Satan Wants You wisely elides ridiculing the era it depicts, instead level-headedly examining the factors that gave birth to Smith and Pazder’s book and its ensuing cultural hysteria.”
Read the full review.
Read the full review.
July 29, 2023
Mike Thorn reviews Sympathy for the Devil (In Review Online)
“Sympathy for the Devil works best when viewed purely as a vehicle (no pun intended) for Cage.”
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Read the full review.
July 15, 2023
June 9, 2023
Tantor Media releases Shelter for the Damned audiobook
Shelter for the Damned is now available as an audiobook through Tantor Media (read by Roman Howell).
Buy here.
Buy here.
April 28, 2023
ConsulLeo reviews Un Refugio para los Condenados (Spanish translation of Shelter for the Damned)
“[T]he way in which the shack progressively takes over Mark reminds me of stories like The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson or Hell House, by Matheson, due to the way in which the evil housed in these mythical buildings takes advantage of the pre-existing weaknesses in its inhabitants, either to destroy them, as in the aforementioned classics, or to, in some way, possess or transform them, as in this novel …”
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Read the full review.
April 21, 2023
Mike Thorn’s new story, “Erosion”, featured on Tales to Terrify
“Welcome to episode 586. We have three tales for you this week. First, when Apollo 11 lands on the moon, it’s not only those on Earth that watch with keen interest. Then, a woman exorcises her hatred for the rose garden her husband planted for her. Finally, a malicious app finds its way onto a man’s phone with dire consequences.”
Listen here.
Listen here.
