Huge congrats, Laurel!! You're a legend

CROSSROADS is out today!

Our edition of @laurelhightower.bsky.social's award-winning novella CROSSROADS is now available in paperback and eBook everywhere books are sold! 🎉

How far would you go to bring back someone you love?

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crossr...

Carnalis book in a tree with blooming white flowers

Inspired by the #SilentHill video game series and other survival horror games, films like Session 9 and Ju-On, and the works of #CliveBarker. The Nowhere Complex is my first stand alone novel. A true one and done.

Cover by Don Noble

Ah, you're far too kind, Polly! Means a lot coming from you. You're a great writer

This kid (hey, he’s young) has a mighty career ahead of him. He’s young, he’s talented, and he’s a fantastic storyteller. I hate people like that.

A short, squat white lighthouse on rocks, surrounded by water. A road bridge crosses over from outside the frame of the photo and passes behind the lighthouse.

In what (I hope!) will be the first in a series of events taking To the Lighthouse *back* to Skye, Bethan Roberts and I will be leading a workshop in Portree on Tues 5th May, reflecting on how Woolf's novel resonates with sustainability, housing, and tourism today atlasarts.org.uk/programme/to...

"Thorn is the real deal. A powerful and exciting new voice in horror literature."
— Jamie Blanks, director of Urban Legend

"Shelter for the Damned grabs you by the throat and never lets go."
— Jeffrey Reddick, creator of Final Destination

Buy: tinyurl.com/MikeThorn

I have some huge news! I am making my debut on a Criterion disc for their stunning 4k restoration of Neil Jordan's THE CRYING GAME. I wrote an essay for the booklet and I'm very excited for everyone to check it out.

www.criterion.com/films/33812-...

Writer Bsky: any publishers currently accepting manuscript submissions for short story collections?

(Horror / dark speculative fiction)

Hideaway (Brett Leonard, 1995)

ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I interviewed the brilliant @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We spoke at length about collecting pieces of lore, bringing levity to fiction, being "on thin ice" with our devices, and much more.

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The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)

“Why me? Why not me?” We get so old while feeling young. How does one navigate the unknown and the known, the lived and the unlived? Is that when we finally grow up, when we reach this hinterland and choose a mask, a demon, or a poppet to provide us with words we haven’t been able to speak? Or is it instead when we put them down as playthings and begin to fill out, to occupy space between others and within their homes and lives, and become our own territory? Maybe none of it is ours to decide. The naive and insouciant narrative voice belies a darkness with teeth. Deceptively simple. Lovely.

Many thanks to @kymiller.bsky.social for this thoughtful review:

I'm in the mood for 'old-school' horror.

I've moved James Herbert and Shaun Hutson back up the TBR Pile of Doom.

Who else would you recommend I add?

Exciting news: my poetry chapbook Thorns: A Book of Poems will drop on May 1 on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, featuring exclusive cover art by surreal artist Welderwings! Sign up for my email newsletter (link below) for further updates and sneak previews! 🥀✨

For purely selfish reasons everyone tell me what forthcoming collections of this sort you’re looking forward to so I can try and review them

Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)

What are everyone's favorite books/papers of lit theory/narratology/rhetoric/poetics/etc? Asking for a friend who's an autodidact in this area and in a rut and running up against the limits of his knowledge and in constant danger of reinventing the wheel.

Also be sure to check out our previous episode: Earthy Language, Scary Cupids, & Lunar Portrayals w/ @michaelwehunt.bsky.social!

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Shocked & sad to learn about the passing of the great
@thomastessier.bsky.social. Miriam & I were scheduled to interview him later this month for Craftwork. He & I had been exchanging emails about his friendship with Peter Straub a couple weeks ago.

Sincerest condolences to his friends & family.

First look at Sophie Thatcher in Nicolas Winding Refn's new film ‘HER PRIVATE HELL’.

The film follows a woman searching for her father as a strange mist engulfs their city and unleashes an elusive deadly presence.

Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social.

@miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the great @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social about cacophonies of voices, mercurial relationships with phones, Gordon Lish heads, and more.

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Listen to our latest episode!

In this interview, we chat with Cassidy McFadzean (@cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social) about skewing prepositions, trusting the reader, opting for vibes over plot, and so much more.

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@houseofanansi.bsky.social

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM art by mx. Morgan G Robles. A swan against the colors of the trans flag upon a cosmic sea.

ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT art by Jenna Cha. An ominous head yawns out of the wasteland, spilling corpses from its mouth.

SPLIT SCREAM background art by Echo Echo. Various positive blurbs.

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We've got 3 titles up for preorder right now, with more coming soon!

🏳️‍⚧️Cosmic Horror🏳️‍⚧️? ✅

Pitch Black Horror Noir? ✅

A pair of CURSED novelettes? ✅

Weird Horror for every discerning reader:
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Castaway (Nicolas Roeg, 1986)

Sign the Petition Students Against Artificial Intelligence at UNBF

A UNB Fredericton student has started an important petition.

Please consider supporting this courageous initiative by signing (if your views on AI align) and/or sharing.

@deptenglishunb.bsky.social

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PLM Talks | Cellar Below The Cellar Launch Party YouTube video by PLM

Did you miss my launch party for @ivygrimes.bsky.social ? No worries! You can now watch the video, complete with a one of kind live reading!
Peep it here: youtu.be/taqRTd44Ah8?...
@apexmag.bsky.social
@sashabrown.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the brilliant S.P. Miskowski, one of my favorite living writers and an exceptionally generous & gracious person.

I recommend you buy, read, & review her work.