Shelter For the Damned

Name: Shelter For the Damned
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mike Thorn
ISBN: 9798350811483

Author: Mike Thorn

Narrator: Roman Howell

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2023

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

While looking for a secret place to smoke cigarettes with his two best friends, troubled teenager Mark discovers a mysterious shack in a suburban field. Alienated from his parents and peers, Mark finds within the shack an escape greater than anything he has ever experienced.

But it isn't long before the place begins revealing its strange, powerful sentience. And it wants something in exchange for the shelter it provides.

Shelter for the Damned is not only a scary, fast-paced horror novel, but also an unflinching study of suburban violence, masculine conditioning, and adolescent rage.

About Mike Thorn

Mike Thorn is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, including Vastarien, Dark Moon Digest, The NoSleep Podcast, and Tales to Terrify. His essays and articles have been published in American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, Beyond Empowertainment: Exploring Feminist Horror, MUBI Notebook, The Film Stage, and elsewhere.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pat on May 25, 2021

3-4 stars. This was a shortish horror read that a few of my friends had enjoyed so I thought I’d check it out. Now that I’ve read it I’m not totally sure what to make of it. Mark is an adolescent boy struggling to be accepted. He has two friends - Adam and Scott. Mark is an oddball and has anger issu......more

Goodreads review by Krystal on June 27, 2021

DNF @ 62% I'm finally deciding to part ways with this book. I really wanted to get through it, as I received a copy from the author in exchange for a review. However it's just really dragging for me and becoming such a chore to read so I'm finishing up just past the halfway mark. The story follows d......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne (thehorrorhive) on April 08, 2021

Shelter for the Damned spins a tale of teenage rage and angst mirrored with the events occurring in the shack. Set the scene…A shack in the middle of a field, it has an exorable pull to the protagonist, Mark. It almost calls to him like a voice in the wind, a siren call. Thorn has a cutthroat abilit......more

Goodreads review by Mindi on January 06, 2021

Nobody has it easy being a teenager. I think being a teen and navigating the expectations of school, parents, and teachers is probably one of the toughest parts of growing up. Mark and his pals Adam and Scott just want a place to hang out so they can smoke a cigarette in secret. Mark in particular h......more

Goodreads review by Antonio Jose Márquez (Pesadillas Recurrentes) on October 02, 2023

4,5/5✨ 🐙”Mark vislumbró la estructura de una edificación silueteada contra la luna, algo con la vaga forma de una casa. Se detuvo.” 🧙‍♂️No veo más que niebla. Cada vez que alzo la vista encajo un golpe que me hunde más. No intentéis ayudarme. Quiero seguir cayendo. No me gusta el orden. No me merece......more