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Mike Thorn:
Dear Mike, I have just one question: 'A New Kind of Drug'... WTF?! Although 'Darkest Hours' is a collection of pretty perfect stories, this one completely blew me away. The whole concept is so unique (to me at least) that I can't compare it to anything I have ever read before. And to me, this is one of the greatest achievements of an author: to tell something completely new.
Mike Thorn
Thank you so much for the kind words, Laertes! I'm thrilled to hear that Darkest Hours connected with you. "A New Kind of Drug" originated as an abstract attempt to grapple with the suffering that humans impose on nonhuman animals, but it led me to some surprising places. The story certainly owes something to the Weird tradition (especially Lovecraft and Hodgson), but it's also driven by personal creative obsessions: addiction, psychedelia, adolescent alienation, familial trauma, etc. The hope is always that, while studying and paying respect to one's genre of choice, one can also find new points of entry.
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