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.”
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.”
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.”
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).
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 …”
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.”
Mike Thorn presenting at 2023 Worldwide Teach-in on Climate and Justice
Thorn’s session, Anthroposcream: Fiction Writing in the Climate Crisis, will explore the challenges of writing through environmental catastrophe, the relationships between humans and animals in ecologically tenuous times, and more.
The event will feature several other panels, as well as two VR films about climate change in Canada.
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