
Shelter for the Damned is now available as an audiobook through Tantor Media (read by Roman Howell).
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Shelter for the Damned is now available as an audiobook through Tantor Media (read by Roman Howell).

“[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 …”

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.

“The story, in its last third, plunges into dark depths, with touches of cosmic horror and weird , finishing off its construction of adolescent obsessions, parent-child relationships and youth psychology.”

“Mike Thorn updates the psychological horror novel, taking it to cosmic horror and the most stark realism, using a scathing and sometimes excessive style, not suitable for everyone, really raw at times, he has written a brilliant exposition on the truth for urban youth. Like life itself.”