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! 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

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 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce... #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! ❤️

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

This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966)

This is the energy I'm bringing into 2026

25 favorite first viewings of 2025 (chronologically organized, one per director).

Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)

Tysm, @kkoja.bsky.social! Start 2026 right. Read Dark Matter. @meerkatpress.bsky.social

Thanks very much to Mike Thorn, and happy holidays!

25 favorite first-time reads of 2025 (chronologically organized, one per author). feat. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social, @subpress.bsky.social, @fparker.bsky.social, @ramseycampbell.bsky.social, @spmiskowski.bsky.social

So glad to be part of this issue!

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'll give you 20 (as of this second).

I submitted my 2025 ballot to In Review Online. Serious contenders I still need to see include Avatar: Fire and Ash, Magellan, Sham, Blazing Fists, No Other Choice, Boorman and the Devil, The American Revolution, and The Chronology of Water.

La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

This week in albums

The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2025)

By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo, 2024)

@mikethorn.bsky.social and I co-wrote "Chlorophilia" as a fun little diversion when we started dating. It's wild to see it in print at @augursociety.bsky.social! augursociety.org/chlorophilia/

recent thrift store finds w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social

Both seasons of MASTERS OF HORROR are now playing on Kanopy, unedited and without ads. Kanopy is a free streaming app that links through your library, and available to anyone.

HUGE shoutout to @yellghoul.bsky.social for designing this stunning cover! 😻 Check it out on our site: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

Miriam Richer & I co-wrote a weird, epistolary, cyber body horror story, which has been published in the latest issue of @augursociety.bsky.social! Thrilled to be included. 🍃🖤💀 Read here: augursociety.org/chlorophilia/ Full issue: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... @miriamricher.bsky.social

We've got 2 samples on our site! ✒️ “Rocky Mountain Gothic” by @evdatsyk.bsky.social, a girl in between the wild & human world ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social, about metamorphosis, betrayal, & nature’s revenge READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

Issue 8.3 features... ✒️ "On Fields of Purple Grass" by @ianli.bsky.social ✒️ "Tapetum Lucidum" by @nebulouswrites.com ✒️ "The Great Divide" by Meryem Yildiz ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

this week in music

I'm teaching a 6-week online course through UNB Art Centre: "Reading Like a Writer" (Wednesdays, Feb. 11 - March 25, 6:30 - 8 p.m., no class March 4). Registration opens December 1. More info here: www.unb.ca/artcentre/le...

It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more! tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp

I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program! www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...

Looker (Michael Crichton, 1981)

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking "what if", sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more. tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Final CFP reminder (deadline November 30)! PETER STRAUB: NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES. Seeking proposals (up to 500 words) on Straub's novels, stories, poetry, and essays. More info: mikethornwrites.com/2025/11/17/p... @igagoths.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @scmshorrorsig.bsky.social

Track 29 (Nicolas Roeg, 1988)

"Dark Matter is a vital and edifying conclusion to Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory project,,," MIKE THORN, author of Shelter for the Damned and Darkest Hours https://smpl.is/aeqxw #DarkMatter #kathekoja @Kathe Koja @Mike Thorn

Cold Heaven (Nicolas Roeg, 1991)

Academic papers on Peter Straub? Why yes!

CFP deadline reminder: Please submit your proposals for Peter Straub: New Critical Perspectives no later than November 30, 2025. Details below. tinyurl.com/5n8ccv94 @ssag.bsky.social

local used book sale haul (w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social) <3

Here are some of my followers who are writers/poets/indie publishers/chaos demons who are growing their accounts! I’d recommend checking them out! @badwitchery.bsky.social @salonsinister.com @larrybear115.bsky.social @mikethorn.bsky.social

In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)

I'm looking forward to presenting alongside McKenna Boeckner at this upcoming colloquium (@deptenglishunb.bsky.social)!