Draft:Mike Thorn

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]