Draft:Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn is a Canadian fiction writer and film critic. He is the author of the novel Shelter for the Damned,  , which iHorror 's Waylon Jordan named one of the best horror books of 2021. The novel was translated into Spanish and adapted for audio. Thorn is also the author of two short story collections: Darkest Hours and Peel Back and See.

Jeffrey Reddick, creator of the Final Destination film franchise, calls Shelter for the Damned "a full-throttle descent into visceral terror." Daniel Goldhaber, director of Cam, praised the novel as "a gripping, uncanny tale cut from the same cloth as Stephen King and John Carpenter." S.P. Miskowski writes that Darkest Hours "intertwines the bizarre and the quotidian to form seamless chronicles of personal disaster."

His film criticism has appeared in MUBI Notebook, The Film Stage, Bright Lights Film Journal, 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 (University of Western Ontario), American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press), and elsewhere. His fiction has been featured on The NoSleep Podcast and Tales to Terrify.

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)