Mike Thorn
@mikethorn.bsky.social
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
· Dec 24
It's alive!
I served as guest editor for this special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, MONSTRUM: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror.
- 6 feature essays
- 2 original fiction pieces (by @kkoja.bsky.social & me)
- 3 retrospective reviews
And more! Read now!
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
I served as guest editor for this special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, MONSTRUM: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror.
- 6 feature essays
- 2 original fiction pieces (by @kkoja.bsky.social & me)
- 3 retrospective reviews
And more! Read now!
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
Thank you for the thoughtful write-up!
January 30, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Thank you for the thoughtful write-up!
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Day 29! I read Cholorphilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social and @miriamricher.bsky.social published in @augursociety.bsky.social They say the grass is always greener... read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
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S/D/Y Jan 29 – Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer – Augur
How do I keep stumbling upon stories with similar themes one after the other. The last story was all about metamorphosis and so is this one but in very, very different ways. This is a deliciously d…
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January 29, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Day 29! I read Cholorphilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social and @miriamricher.bsky.social published in @augursociety.bsky.social They say the grass is always greener... read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/s...
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We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩
New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025).
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
January 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM
We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩
Reposted by Mike Thorn
Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik!
tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
January 20, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik!
tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025).
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
January 19, 2026 at 12:40 PM
New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025).
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more.
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
Reposted by Mike Thorn
Listen to our latest episode!
In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more.
@talonbooks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more.
@talonbooks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Listen to our latest episode!
In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more.
@talonbooks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
In this interview, we chat with Hajer Mirwali about cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and so much more.
@talonbooks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
I highly recommend Hajer Mirwali's excellent poetry collection, Revolutions, which has stuck with me since I finished it last week.
talonbooks.bsky.social
talonbooks.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I highly recommend Hajer Mirwali's excellent poetry collection, Revolutions, which has stuck with me since I finished it last week.
talonbooks.bsky.social
talonbooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Mike Thorn
It's publication day! My book is now officially out and available to buy! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
#GothicCelebrity
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
#GothicCelebrity
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's publication day! My book is now officially out and available to buy! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
#GothicCelebrity
Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...
#GothicCelebrity
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Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️
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The Cipher gets a lot of (deserved!) praise, but also "Angels in Love" has lived rent-free in my head for over 30 years now.
Many happy returns, Kathe Koja!
Many happy returns, Kathe Koja!
Happiest birthday to the visionary @kkoja.bsky.social , my favorite living writer & a major creative influence. She's also one of the realest and most gracious people I've encountered in this world of fiction.
January 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The Cipher gets a lot of (deserved!) praise, but also "Angels in Love" has lived rent-free in my head for over 30 years now.
Many happy returns, Kathe Koja!
Many happy returns, Kathe Koja!
Happiest birthday to the visionary @kkoja.bsky.social , my favorite living writer & a major creative influence. She's also one of the realest and most gracious people I've encountered in this world of fiction.
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Happiest birthday to the visionary @kkoja.bsky.social , my favorite living writer & a major creative influence. She's also one of the realest and most gracious people I've encountered in this world of fiction.
Happy birthday to the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, a true master of dark literature.
Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb
Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb
January 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Happy birthday to the great @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, a true master of dark literature.
Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb
Interviewing him was one of my personal highlights of 2025. Listen here: tinyurl.com/56eb5arb
Finally, the issue also features two student forum contributions:
"Interpreting Ginger Snaps as a Trans Story", by Emerson Reault
&
"'All Mixed Up': It’s Alive!, It Lives Again, and Kristeva’s Maternal Herethics", by Luka Romney
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
"Interpreting Ginger Snaps as a Trans Story", by Emerson Reault
&
"'All Mixed Up': It’s Alive!, It Lives Again, and Kristeva’s Maternal Herethics", by Luka Romney
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Finally, the issue also features two student forum contributions:
"Interpreting Ginger Snaps as a Trans Story", by Emerson Reault
&
"'All Mixed Up': It’s Alive!, It Lives Again, and Kristeva’s Maternal Herethics", by Luka Romney
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
"Interpreting Ginger Snaps as a Trans Story", by Emerson Reault
&
"'All Mixed Up': It’s Alive!, It Lives Again, and Kristeva’s Maternal Herethics", by Luka Romney
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
Fred Barrett provides a retrospective review of Stuart Gordon's King of the Ants, observing vegan allegory in the “dehumanizing” cruelty meted out by the film's human antagonists.
@fredbarrett.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@fredbarrett.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Fred Barrett provides a retrospective review of Stuart Gordon's King of the Ants, observing vegan allegory in the “dehumanizing” cruelty meted out by the film's human antagonists.
@fredbarrett.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@fredbarrett.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
I reassess Rob Zombie's debut feature through an animal liberationist lens in "'They All Run Like Scared Little Rabbits': The Vegan Ethos of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses."
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 2, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I reassess Rob Zombie's debut feature through an animal liberationist lens in "'They All Run Like Scared Little Rabbits': The Vegan Ethos of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses."
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966)
January 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966)
Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel.
@miriamricher.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@miriamricher.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel.
@miriamricher.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@miriamricher.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
Ah, thank you, Kathe. Very glad you picked up on the humor.
Love yours, too. And I love how it *looks* on the page, btw (I see this as a consistently major feature of your work)
Love yours, too. And I love how it *looks* on the page, btw (I see this as a consistently major feature of your work)
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Ah, thank you, Kathe. Very glad you picked up on the humor.
Love yours, too. And I love how it *looks* on the page, btw (I see this as a consistently major feature of your work)
Love yours, too. And I love how it *looks* on the page, btw (I see this as a consistently major feature of your work)
My new story, "Cogno", reckons with the terrifying world of tech-bro longevity and extractive violence at the expense of ... maybe everything.
(a tribute of sorts to The Island of Doctor Moreau)
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
(a tribute of sorts to The Island of Doctor Moreau)
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
My new story, "Cogno", reckons with the terrifying world of tech-bro longevity and extractive violence at the expense of ... maybe everything.
(a tribute of sorts to The Island of Doctor Moreau)
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
(a tribute of sorts to The Island of Doctor Moreau)
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
"The Playground", an original work of fiction by Kathe Koja (The Cipher, Dark Factory, Straydog), traces a shift in ecological sensibility to what might be called a necessary violence.
@kkoja.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@kkoja.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"The Playground", an original work of fiction by Kathe Koja (The Cipher, Dark Factory, Straydog), traces a shift in ecological sensibility to what might be called a necessary violence.
@kkoja.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
@kkoja.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
In "'Oh, you’d probably like it if you didn’t know what was in it': Carnism, Cannibalism, and Repression in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", Dru Jeffries locates resistance to dominant carnist cultural narratives in Hooper's masterpiece of cinematic horror.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
In "'Oh, you’d probably like it if you didn’t know what was in it': Carnism, Cannibalism, and Repression in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", Dru Jeffries locates resistance to dominant carnist cultural narratives in Hooper's masterpiece of cinematic horror.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
Britt MacKenzie-Dale's "'Hear my tale': Bearing Witness to the Nonhuman, from Frankenstein’s Monster to the Animal Industrial Complex" offers an animal liberationist reading of Mary Shelley's classic novel.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Britt MacKenzie-Dale's "'Hear my tale': Bearing Witness to the Nonhuman, from Frankenstein’s Monster to the Animal Industrial Complex" offers an animal liberationist reading of Mary Shelley's classic novel.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
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This is the energy I'm bringing into 2026
December 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is the energy I'm bringing into 2026
William Taylor's "'The factory is a fertile body': Impersonal Flesh, Miscarriage, and the Failure of Queer-inhuman Affect in Elle Nash’s Deliver Me" discusses compulsory carnist capitalism, queer subjectivity, and systemic violence in @saderotica.bsky.social's acclaimed novel.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
William Taylor's "'The factory is a fertile body': Impersonal Flesh, Miscarriage, and the Failure of Queer-inhuman Affect in Elle Nash’s Deliver Me" discusses compulsory carnist capitalism, queer subjectivity, and systemic violence in @saderotica.bsky.social's acclaimed novel.
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b