Mike Thorn
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Shelter for the Damned
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Darkest Hours
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Peel Back and See
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Prairie Gothic
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Beyond the Book of Eibon
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Shattered & Splintered
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AFFECTUS: Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy and Theory: Volume 1, Issue 1
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Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom
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Listen to the Craftwork interview with Maryse Meijer. Maryse Meijer references Kathe Koja's influence in the Acknowledgments page of Heartbreaker, and I can see the throughline: like many of Koja's novels and stories, the pieces in Heartbreaker often ...more |
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You might call this novel a ballad, a requiem, an elegy, or a dirge (it's all of those things) but there's no mistaking its music. Joyce Carol Oates sketches a woman's life in the frenzied moments before death while also cogently depicting the patria ...more | |
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"It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been requi ...more | |
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“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man’s experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it.”
― The Confidence-Man
― The Confidence-Man
“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.”
― The Killer Inside Me
― The Killer Inside Me
“Imagine, always pretending to run a world. Always imitating the sort of people they think they might be if the world were the sort of world it isn't. Pretending to be words like 'normal' and 'wholesome' and 'honest' and 'decent' and 'self-respecting' and all the rest, when even the words aren't real. Imagine, being people.”
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