Mike Thorn

The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.

On brackishness and etc

We loved Rebecca Gransden's take on Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER!

If you are looking for an immersive book experience, check this out!

https://smpl.is/ahh88

#DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #immersivestory #immersiveAF #kathekoja

Profane Illuminations III: Sophia J. Unsworth’s The Silent House and Other Strange Stories, Corey Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies, and Ysabelle Cheung’s Patchwork Dolls Zachary Gillan In 2020, following protests in Hong Kong and the beginning of the epidemic, Ysabelle Cheung wrote an essay called “What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sens…

Profane Illuminations III: More of my thoughts on weird fiction collections! Sophia J. Unsworth’s The Silent House and Other Strange Stories! Corey Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies! Ysabelle Cheung’s Patchwork Dolls! We've got fragments and grief, italics, recordings, birds, liminal houses...

Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)

About a Place in the Kinki Region (Kôji Shiraishi, 2025)

The greatest documentary filmmaker, period.

Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980)

Thank you, Laurel! Hope you & yours are well despite the darkness of the times

Thanks so much! Very grateful for your reviews & support

On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other sites, here's Paul Giamatti reading my story "Blanca." Something about fear and terror loose in the land again....
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Thank you so much, S.P.!

Highly recommended!

Thanks, Thea! :)

An amazing milestone!

My debut novel turns 5 this month! Nice words from writers I admire:

“A full-bore, vicious death metal roar through suburbia towards hell.”
— @gemmafiles.bsky.social

“Superbly written.”
— @laurelhightower.bsky.social

"[A] coming-of-age story with teeth and claws.”
— @spmiskowski.bsky.social

Thank you for the thoughtful write-up!

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…

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...

We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩

Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik!

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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.

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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

I highly recommend Hajer Mirwali's excellent poetry collection, Revolutions, which has stuck with me since I finished it last week.

talonbooks.bsky.social

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

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#GothicCelebrity

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! ❤️

Forever grateful!

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!

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

​Finally, the issue also features two student forum contributions:

"Interpreting Ginger Snaps as a Trans Story", by Emerson Reault

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"'All Mixed Up': It’s Alive!, It Lives Again, and Kristeva’s Maternal Herethics", by Luka Romney

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