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Author: Jonathan Thornton

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Jonathan Thornton

Jonathan Thornton is from Scotland but grew up in Kenya, and now lives in Liverpool. He has a lifelong love of fantasy and science fiction, kicked off by reading The Lord Of The Rings and Dune at an impressionable age. Nowadays his favourite writers are Michael Moorcock, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Patricia McKillip and Ursula Le Guin. He has a day job working with mosquitoes, and one day wants to finish writing his own stories. You can find Jonathan on Twitter at @JonathanThornt2.

  • BlogInterviews
    By Jonathan Thornton
    November 28, 2025
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    Interview with Lauren Du Plessis (TENDER)

    Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Litro and Mslexia among others. She earned ...
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  • Body HorrorBook ReviewsFolkHorror
    By Jonathan Thornton
    November 24, 2025
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    TENDER by Lauren Du Plessis (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Being a plant seems simple. It all makes sense.” “Simpler than being human?” “Right. A plant doesn’t have a nervous system. It doesn’t need thoughts. It’s ...
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  • Book ReviewsHorror
    By Jonathan Thornton
    October 23, 2025
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    BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin (BOOK REVIEW)

    “If a photograph could slice a little flesh from time, did the rest of the carcass remain? Could she return and suck the lingering taste off ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionSpeculative
    By Jonathan Thornton
    October 3, 2025
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    WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E. J. Swift (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Like Chornobyl rain, an event has to touch you to register. Lux is your proof that you had to come here, to the end, in order ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    September 29, 2025
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    Interview with Dan Coxon (WRITING THE MAGIC)

    Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionSpeculativeUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    September 12, 2025
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    BIG TIME by Jordan Prosser (BOOK REVIEW)

    “The people in your life are a form of time travel; knowing them, then losing them, is like pausing the hand on a clock.” “Is it ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHorrorSpeculativeSupernaturalWitchcraftWitches
    By Jonathan Thornton
    September 4, 2025
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    SLASHED BEAUTIES by A. Rushby (BOOK REVIEW)

    “There are some who think that I know the truth and I simply don’t want to speak about it, either because I want to create mystery ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionSpeculative
    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 29, 2025
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    CHILCO by Daniela Catrileo, translated by Jacob Edelstein (BOOK REVIEW(

    Daniela Catrileo – Chilco (2023, Translated by Jacob Edelstein 2025) “No matter what I do, the smell returns like an echo, a resonance, as if the ...
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  • Book ReviewsFolkHorrorPsychological
    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 27, 2025
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    LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH by Rowe Irvin (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Protect you against Rot, Daughter. Shudder with the thought of it, that worst thing. Rot like the gone-bad-on-the-inside of fruit, like biting into an apple without ...
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  • Body HorrorBook ReviewsHorror
    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 26, 2025
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    MOONFLOW by Bitter Karella (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Under the trees and the earth, under the roots of the towering spruce and the mighty fir, under strata of rich black loam and rocky clay, ...
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