Mike Thorn | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Website | mikethornwrites |
Mike Thorn is a Canadian fiction writer[1][2] and film critic.[3] He is the author of the novel Shelter for the Damned,[4][5][6][7], which iHorror's Waylon Jordan named one of the best horror books of 2021[8]. The novel was translated into Spanish[9] and adapted for audio.[10] Thorn is also the author of two short story collections: Darkest Hours[11][12] and Peel Back and See.[13][14]
Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the Final Destination film franchise, calls Shelter for the Damned "a full-throttle descent into visceral terror."[15] Daniel Goldhaber, director of Cam, praised the novel as "a gripping, uncanny tale cut from the same cloth as Stephen King and John Carpenter."[16] S.P. Miskowski writes that Darkest Hours "intertwines the bizarre and the quotidian to form seamless chronicles of personal disaster."[17]
His film criticism has appeared in MUBI Notebook,[18] The Film Stage,[19] Bright Lights Film Journal[20], and elsewhere. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English (Creative Writing) at the University of New Brunswick. His scholarship has appeared in Chiasma[21] (University of Western Ontario), American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press)[22], and elsewhere. His fiction has been featured on The NoSleep Podcast[23] and Tales to Terrify.[24][25]
Works
Novels & Collections
- Shelter for the Damned (2021)
- Peel Back and See (2021)
- Darkest Hours (2017)
Short fiction
- Solstice Grinsztad (2023)
- Erosion (2023)
- The Events (2022)
- Vomitus Bacchanalius (2021)
- Offer to the Adversary (2021)
- Deprimer (2020)
- Mini McDonagh Manor (2020)
- @GorgoYama2013 (2019)
- Mr. Mucata's Final Requests (2018)
- Virus (2018)
- All in the Family (2018)
- Choo-Choo (2017)
- Sabbatical (2017)
- Entropy Major (2017)
- Speaking of Ghosts (2017)
- Lucio Schluter (2017)
- Remembering Absence (2016)
- Hair (2016)
- Mired (2016)
- The Auteur (2016)
- Long Man (2015)
- Volcano Doomsayer (2012)
- Passenger #273 (2012)
References and sources
- ^ Love, Rebeccah (2021-08-05). "MIKE THORN, THE VOICE OF CANADIAN HORROR, TALKS DARK SUBJECT MATTER AND CURIOSITY". Toronto Arts Report. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Tremblay, Wyatt (2019-10-17). "Busy week at APL". Airdrie City View. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "Mike Thorn Movie Reviews & Previews | Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Potter, Vincent (6 February 2022). "REVIEW OF MIKE THORN'S "SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED"". FreeFall Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ "MONSTRUM v4 (2021)". MONTRÉAL MONSTRUM SOCIETY / SOCIÉTÉ MONSTRUM DE MONTRÉAL. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Anderson, Derek (26 February 2021). "Q&a: Author Mike Thorn Discusses His New Novel Shelter For The Damned". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Jordan, Waylon (2021-03-03). "Mike Thorn's 'Shelter for the Damned' is an Anxiety-Inducing Must-Read". iHorror. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Jordan, Waylon (2021-12-28). "Waylon's Top Seven Best Horror Books of 2021!". iHorror. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "Un refugio para los condenados, de Mike Thorn". Dilatando Mentes Editorial (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ "Shelter For the Damned - Audiobook". tantor.com. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ Volmers, Eric (3 June 2021). "Calgary writer Mike Thorn finds the horror within for collection of subgenre-hopping short stories". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Anderson, Derek (11 June 2021). "Q&a: Author Mike Thorn Discusses His Short Story Collection Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Zardynezhad, Ava (3 June 2021). "U of C alumnus Mike Thorn releases new collection". Gauntlet (newspaper). Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Anderson, Derek. "Q&a: Author Mike Thorn Discusses His New Short Story Collection Peel Back And See". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "Book Review: Shelter for the Damned by Mike Thorn - More2Read". www.more2read.com. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ Thorn, Mike. "Shelter for the Damned". Barnes & Noble.
- ^ "Book Review: Darkest Hours by Mike Thorn - More2Read". www.more2read.com. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "Mike Thorn – Notebook | MUBI". mubi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ "Mike Thorn - The Film Stage". Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ Thorn, Mike. "Bright Lights Film Journal". Bright Lights Film Journal.
- ^ Thorn, Mike (2016-09-12). "Dylan Trigg, The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror". Chiasma: A Site for Thought. 3 (1). ISSN 2292-6925.
- ^ Thorn, Mike (18 May 2024). LIZARD BRAIN OUROBOROS: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive and Crocodile. doi:10.7560/322833. ISBN 978-1-4773-2284-0. JSTOR 10.7560/322833. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
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ignored (help) - ^ "NoSleep Podcast S11E13". The NoSleep Podcast. 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ "586 | Jacob Steven Mohr, Lyndsey Croal & Mike Thorn". Tales to Terrify. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ "376 | Mike Thorn & Arthur Machen". Tales to Terrify. Retrieved 2024-01-14.