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On Saturday, May 8, Cult of Cinema‘s Aaron Pynn will host a conversation between Mike Thorn (author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours) and Jamie Blanks (director of Urban Legend and Valentine).
“Thorn gives us a slow burn story that shows a kid spiral as the shack he loves hooks its tentacles into him and begins to distort right from wrong.”
Mike Thorn returns to Losing the Plot talk about his latest novel, Shelter for the Damned (Journalstone) but he also has a rerelease of his short story collection Darkest Hours coming out and a new collection, Peel Back and See, out towards the end of the year! Wild!
“Many of the stories in this collection concern the topics of academia (with academics being alternately portrayed as buffoonish or somewhat sinister) and drinking/drunkenness; the two are most amusingly combined in the clever ‘Speaking of Ghosts.'”
In 2022, Dilatando Mentes Editorial will release Shelter for the Damned in Spanish translation.
“This isn’t your basic coming of age novel where everything is nostalgic and beautiful. SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED is brutal in some ways, but also quite realistic.”
Mike Thorn sat down with House of Mystery‘s Alan R. Warren and David North-Martino to discuss Shelter for the Damned.
“Thorn has a cutthroat ability to reel you in, a writing style so sharp and penetrating that it threatens to tear you open, layer by layer … Shelter for the Damned felt like the lovechild of Barker and King.”
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