New Mike Thorn story, “Hell is a False Abyss” in new charity anthology, Look at Our Holes (pre-order now)
For the Love of Books: Friday, January 10
“The Charlotte Street Arts Centre and the Fredericton Public Library are teaming up for a unique evening of storytelling inspired by our collective love for literature, libraries, and books of all shapes and sizes.
This special evening event will feature personal stories from a cast of New Brunswick writers including Ambrose Albert, Joce Anderson, Chuck Bowie, Ryan Griffith, Jordan Thretheway, Joanne LeBlanc-Haley, Eric Hill, Philip Lee, Paul McAllister, Thandiwe McCarthy, Fawn Parker, Mike Thorn, Jacques Poitras, and Sue Sinclair with all proceeds going to support both the Charlotte Street Arts Centre and the Fredericton Public Library.”
Mike Thorn discusses Bram Stoker’s “Gibbet Hill” on CBC Eyeopener
Loren McGinnis interviewed Mike Thorn about the recently uncovered Bram Stoker story “Gibbet Hill.”
Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja
Listen to Craftwork S1E13: Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja.
In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more.
Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces live and virtual events. Her award-winning books include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Under The Poppy and Velocities, and she is currently at work on the Dark Factory immersive fiction project including Dark Factory, Dark Park and Dark Matter. Catherine the Ghost is her newest novel.
You can find her at kathekoja.com and on Instagram, Facebook and Threads.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
- Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Mouse and His Child; Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
- The Default World – Naomi Kanakia
- Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett – James Knowlson
- A Place of Greater Safety; Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
- Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
- Rimbaud: A Biography – Graham Robb
- Frankenstein; The Last Man – Mary Shelley
- Lost Boy Lost Girl – Peter Straub
- The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy – David Tame
Shepherd guest post: Mike Thorn’s 3 favorite reads from September 2023 to October 2024
Shepherd asked Mike Thorn to name the 3 best books he read between September 30 2023 and October 1 2024.
Peel Back and See reviewed on Stranger Sights
“I think the central theme here is that we are peeling back the layers of society, and of humanity, to see what lies beneath – and it ain’t pretty.”
CFP for Monstrum 8.2: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror (Guest Editor: Mike Thorn)
Submissions are now open for Monstrum 8.2, a special issue devoted to horror and ecohorror’s engagements with veganism and animal liberation. We seek proposals for essays (5,000-7,000 words) devoted to horror texts, modalities, and philosophies with a focus on veganism or animal rights.
Mike Thorn reviews Twixt (In Review Online)
“The film’s lush, otherworldly dreamscapes foreground the theme of time by contrasting contemporary film technology against the aesthetics of Gothic pasts. Coppola fills Baltimore’s nocturnal visions with Expressionist gestures: tilted crosses and jagged shadows summon the ghosts of Murnau, Wiene, and Lang.”
Mike Thorn reviews Never Let Go (In Review Online)
“Director Alexandre Aja’s latest film, Never Let Go, occupies a deliberately liminal space. Its threadbare plot suggests a post-apocalyptic near future, but its central family is stuck in a Gothic past.”
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