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Mike Thorn
@mikethorn.bsky.social
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Fiction writer & film critic. Author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. Co-host of https://bsky.app/profile/craftworkpod.bsky.social. PhD in English.
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Jan 16
"... an imagination H. P. Lovecraft would have envied."
— Jamie Blanks, director of Urban Legend

"... a horror writer to watch."
— Jeffrey Reddick, creator of Final Destination

Represented by @staceykondla.bsky.social, @therightsfactory.bsky.social

Buy: tinyurl.com/MikeThorn
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Both seasons of MASTERS OF HORROR are now playing on Kanopy, unedited and without ads. Kanopy is a free streaming app that links through your library, and available to anyone.
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
HUGE shoutout to @yellghoul.bsky.social for designing this stunning cover! 😻

Check it out on our site: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking.
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Miriam Richer & I co-wrote a weird, epistolary, cyber body horror story, which has been published in the latest issue of
@augursociety.bsky.social! Thrilled to be included. 🍃🖤💀

Read here: augursociety.org/chlorophilia/

Full issue: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

@miriamricher.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
We've got 2 samples on our site!

✒️ “Rocky Mountain Gothic” by @evdatsyk.bsky.social, a girl in between the wild & human world
✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social, about metamorphosis, betrayal, & nature’s revenge

READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.” At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Issue 8.3 features...

✒️ "On Fields of Purple Grass" by @ianli.bsky.social
✒️ "Tapetum Lucidum" by @nebulouswrites.com
✒️ "The Great Divide" by Meryem Yildiz
✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social

augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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Augur Issue 8.3 - Augur Literary Society
AUGUR ISSUE 8.3What do you desire from the natural world? For millions of years, we’ve been shaped and reshaped by the environment around us. If technology has the power to mimic lush lands and blue w...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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this week in music
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
mikethorn.bsky.social
I'm teaching a 6-week online course through UNB Art Centre: "Reading Like a Writer" (Wednesdays, Feb. 11 - March 25, 6:30 - 8 p.m., no class March 4). Registration opens December 1.

More info here: www.unb.ca/artcentre/le...
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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miriamricher.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more!

tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program!

www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...
Episode 70: Willow Catelyn Maclay
Bill talks to author and podcaster Erica Shultz about her endeavors in film culture, from creating shows like Unsung Horrors to writing and publishing her book THE SWEETEST TABOO and contributing spec...
www.nowplayingnetwork.net
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981)
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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craftworkpod.bsky.social
Listen to our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking "what if", sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more.

tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp

@ualbertapress.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Final CFP reminder (deadline November 30)!

PETER STRAUB: NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.

Seeking proposals (up to 500 words) on Straub's novels, stories, poetry, and essays.

More info: mikethornwrites.com/2025/11/17/p...

@igagoths.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social
Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives CFP (November 30 deadline reminder)
Proposal Submission Details Mike Thorn seeks proposals of no more than 500 words for essays (5000-7000 words) on or related to the topics listed below. He is especially interested in essays address…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Track 29 (Nicolas Roeg, 1988)
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"Dark Matter is a vital and edifying conclusion to Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory project,,,"

MIKE THORN, author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours

https://smpl.is/aeqxw

#DarkMatter #kathekoja @Kathe Koja @Mike Thorn
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Cold Heaven (Nicolas Roeg, 1991)
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Academic papers on Peter Straub? Why yes!
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mikethorn.bsky.social
CFP deadline reminder: Please submit your proposals for Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives no later than November 30, 2025.

Details below.

tinyurl.com/5n8ccv94

@ssag.bsky.social
Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives CFP (November 30 deadline reminder)
Proposal Submission Details Mike Thorn seeks proposals of no more than 500 words for essays (5000-7000 words) on or related to the topics listed below. He is especially interested in essays address…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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local used book sale haul (w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social) <3
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Here are some of my followers who are writers/poets/indie publishers/chaos demons who are growing their accounts! I’d recommend checking them out!
@badwitchery.bsky.social
@salonsinister.com
@larrybear115.bsky.social
@mikethorn.bsky.social
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
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November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I'm looking forward to presenting alongside McKenna Boeckner at this upcoming colloquium (@deptenglishunb.bsky.social)!
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Another exhilarating conversation about craft! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I spoke to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, building writing communities, reading the comments section, and lots more.

tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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On the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social,
@miriamricher.bsky.social & I talked craft and process with
Jean Marc Ah-Sen.

Good conversation!

tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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craftworkpod.bsky.social
Listen to our our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more.

tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM