“Horror is the Truth” — Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition Reviewed on Tuerlemot
“Each story in Darkest Hours reads like a blast of intense sound. Crisp, erudite and intense, these stories speak with uncanny voices that occasionally converse with one another (as we’ll explore in this essay). Thorn builds narrative worlds that inhabit a set of thematic coordinates that I propose we recognize with the term Thornian.’ The Thornian exists in the interplay between addiction, violence, academic pretensions and the supernatural monsters which push these other themes to their limits.”
Shelter for the Damned Reviewed on Only the Darkest Reads
“It’s about being a total and complete fuckup and outsider. And there’s some gnarly gore too if that’s your thing.”
Steve Stred on Shelter for the Damned for Kendall Reviews
“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.”
Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition – Review ARCs Available
I now have digital ARCs of Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition (coming June 11 from Journalstone). This version includes all 16 original stories, plus 17 essays on horror cinema.
Contact me here if you’re interested in reviewing and/or interviewing.
Kathryn Owen Reviews Darkest Hours on Final Women: Horror from a Woman’s Perspective
“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.'”
Mike Thorn 