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Publishing date: Jun 03, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read • Calgary author Mike Thorn. Photo by Anita Jeanine. Photo by Anita Tarnowski /jpg
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In the introduction to Calgary writer Mike Thorn’s short-story collection, Darkest Hours: Expanded Edition, American horror aficionado Sadie Hartmann offers a list of the complex subgenres found inside.
Hartmann, who goes by the name Mother Horror, found traces of everything from “gross-out body horror,” to “satirical black comedy,” “slasher,” “urban legends” and even the “Satanic panic” of the 1980s in Thorn’s work.
Close Photo of Mike Thorn and his newest novel Shelter for the Damned (2020). // Photo courtesy of Anita Jeanine.
“Normalcy, not harmony” : Author Mike Thorn speaks on his debut horror novel Shelter for the Damned
For many fans of fiction writing, the horror genre is exciting, tense and leaves uncomfortable impressions regarding characters set in everyday life. For Calgary-based author Mike Thorn, the uncomfortable nature of the horror genre is what inspired him and his debut novel
Shelter for the Damned.
A story about a young teen encountering a mysterious shack in a suburban field, themes such as “suburban violence, masculine conditioning and adolescent rage” are explored through the protagonist Mark’s discovery of the malicious and sentient nature of the environment he has encountered. In an interview with the