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Walden Pond Books includes Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours on list, “Truly Terrifying Horror Books You Should Know About”

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Jess the Book Freak reviews Peel Back and See and Shelter for the Damned

Jess the Book Freak reviewed two Mike Thorn books in her June Reading Wrap Up video.

Watch here.

The best debut horror short story collections (Shepherd guest post)

Mike Thorn selected five of his favorite short story collection debuts in horror for Shepherd.

See his selections and read his blurbs.

Peel Back and See reviewed on Final Women: Horror from a Woman’s Perspective

“While his first collection was great fun, this one shows his growth as a writer, and I feel like a lot of these stories are going to stick with me for a long time. If you haven’t read Thorn’s work this is the perfect place to jump on. I can’t wait to read what he writes next.”

Read the full review on Final Women: Horror from a Woman’s Perspective.

Jason’s Weird Reads: “Best Books I’ve Read Because of Booktube” (featuring Darkest Hours)

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Dissolved Boundaries: Kathe Koja and Mike Thorn in Cinematic Dialogue

To celebrate the release of Dark Factory, Mike Thorn and Kathe Koja sat down to discuss cinema, literature, the creative process and more.

Read the discussion on In Review Online.

The Fiddlehead: Mike Thorn Reviews David Folster’s Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick

“David Folster’s posthumously published Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick offers a journalistic and intentionally wandering study of its title province’s cinematic history. Spanning the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries, the book comprises a dense collection of esoterica, six-degrees-of-separation links, margin notes, and coincidences, all centered in a locale not customarily associated with film history (the province of New Brunswick).”

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Night Worms Guest Post: A Photoshoot Inspired by Fiction | Mike Thorn & Danielle Nicol

Check out the photoshoot on Night Worms.

Mike Thorn on Shepherd: “The best books about descents into existential darkness”

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Today in X-RAY Literary Magazine: Mike Thorn on film with Rebecca Gransden

What film, or films, made the first deep impression on you?

This question is always difficult to answer, because I honestly can’t remember a time before I was totally obsessed with film. Like many suburban Canadian families in the nineties, mine owned a collection of Disney movies on VHS. I think Fantasia (1940) was the first one that really resonated with me in a major way—it was just this overload of pure sound and image, scary and funny and beautiful and intense.

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