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July 15, 2023
New Mike Thorn essay, “Master of Puppets: A Retrospective of James Wan’s Scary Movies” on In Review Online
Published on July 15, 2023 07:35
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cinema, dead-silence, film, film-criticism, horror, in-review-online, insidious, insidious-chapter-2, james-wan, malignant, mike-thorn, movies, puppets, saw, scary-movies, the-conjuring, the-conjuring-2, the-uncanny, thomas-ligotti
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.
Published on June 09, 2023 06:35
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audible, audiobook, coming-of-age, fiction, horror, mike-thorn, roman-howell, shelter-for-the-damned, tantor
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 …”
Read the full review.
Read the full review.
Published on April 28, 2023 06:54
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consulleo, dilatando-mentes-editorial, fiction, hell-house, horror, mike-thorn, novel, review, richard-matheson, shelter-for-the-damned, shirley-jackson, stephen-king, un-refugio-para-los-condenados
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.
Published on April 21, 2023 14:00
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alexandra-elroy, erosion, fiction, horror, jacob-steven-mohr, jesse-holt, lyndsey-croal, mike-thorn, scary-story, short-story, sl-albert, tales-to-terrify
February 28, 2023
Mike Thorn discusses O (2001) on Almost Major podcast
Published on February 28, 2023 12:34
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almost-major, cinema, film, josh-hartnett, julia-stiles, lionsgate, mekhi-phifer, mike-thorn, movies, o, othello, shakespeare, tim-blake-nelson
February 21, 2023
Mike Thorn discusses Larry Clark’s Bully (2001) on Almost Major podcast
Published on February 21, 2023 11:55
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almost-major, bully, cinema, film, larry-clark, mike-thorn, movies, podcast
February 17, 2023
Morality, Murder, and Misanthropic Milieus in Bully and O
Mike Thorn wrote a long article on Larry Clark’s Bully and Tim Blake Nelson’s O for In Review Online.
Subscribe to their Patreon to read the full piece.
Subscribe to their Patreon to read the full piece.
Published on February 17, 2023 14:04
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bully, cinema, film, in-review-online, josh-hartnett, larry-clark, mike-thorn, movies, o, othello, tim-blake-nelson
January 26, 2023
The Bookubus includes Peel Back and See on Best Horror Books of 2022 list
"Most of [the stories] are dark and menacing in tone, some of them are more emotional, some of them are more disturbing and sinister."
Watch here.
Watch here.
Published on January 26, 2023 06:07
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battle-royale, best-horror-books-of-2022, charlee-jacob, fiction, flowers-in-the-attic, gabriel-wittkop, gus-moreno, horror, irvine-welsh, james-herbert, koushun-takami, marabou-stork, mark-morris, mike-thorn, peel-back-and-see, r-l-stine, season-of-the-witch, the-bookubus, the-girlfriend, the-necrophiliac, this-thing-between-us, toady, v-c-andrews
January 17, 2023
Glimpse into paperback release, Un Refugio para los Condenados
Dilatando Mentes Editorial offers a glimpse inside the paperback for Un Refugio para los Condenados, the Spanish translation of Shelter for the Damned
Watch here.
Watch here.
Published on January 17, 2023 06:25
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dilatando-mentes-editorial, fiction, horror, mike-thorn, shelter-for-the-damned, un-refugio-para-los-condenados
January 5, 2023
L. J. Zapico reviews Un Refugio para los Condenados, the Spanish translation of Shelter for the Damned
“The story, in its last third, plunges into dark depths, with touches of cosmic horror and weird , finishing off its construction of adolescent obsessions, parent-child relationships and youth psychology.”
Read the full review.
Read the full review.
Published on January 05, 2023 07:50
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dilatando-mentes-editorial, fiction, horror, journalstone, l-j-zapico, mike-thorn, review, shelter-for-the-damned, un-refugio-para-los-condenados