Author of the article: Eric Volmers
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.
WIHFF Co-Founder Producing WORST LAID PLANS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VACATION HORROR
WIHFF Co-Founder Producing WORST LAID PLANS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VACATION HORROR! By Josh Millican
An exciting feature film anthology is coming to horror fans from Women in Horror Film Festival co-founder Samantha Kolesnik and Nathan Ludwig, founder of Genreblast Films, the new production label from Genreblast Film Festival (a MovieMaker Magazine 2021 Top 50 Genre Film Festival).
Indie publishing house, Grindhouse Press
, released the critically acclaimed book,
Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror in July 2020, edited by Kolesnik (author of
True Crime). The book contains fourteen tales of vacations gone wrong and features a foreword from popular horror fiction critic, Sadie Hartmann “Mother Horror”.