I have now moved all of my blogging activity over to The Living Dark, where I continue to pursue many of the core themes and interests that drove The Teeming Brain for 16 years. Chief among these is the intersection of creativity and calling at the intersection of nonduality and the daemon muse. Join me…
Author: Matt Cardin
Teeming Brain founder and editor Matt Cardin is the author of DARK AWAKENINGS, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP, A COURSE IN DEMONIC CREATIVITY: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO THE INNER GENIUS, and TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN. He is also the editor of BORN TO FEAR: INTERVIEWS WITH THOMAS LIGOTTI and the academic encyclopedias MUMMIES AROUND THE WORLD; GHOSTS, SPIRITS, AND PSYCHICS: THE PARANORMAL FROM ALCHEMY TO ZOMBIES; and HORROR LITERATURE THROUGH HISTORY.
The Final Farewell
Well, here it is. The last post I will ever publish at The Teeming Brain. As previously announced, after 16 years I’m closing the doors to make way for a new project, which launched today. But before we leave, a trip down teeming memory lane: I started The Teeming Brain in June 2006. One month…
The End of The Teeming Brain
Dear Teeming Brain friends: After 16 years of maintaining this site, I’m officially shutting things down. This is not a hiatus like the ones in the past. This is a definitive ending. Not to worry, though. As I said here several months ago, the end of TTB means the start of something else. The next…
New podcast interview with me on Alan Watts, Christianity, and Nonduality
Recently I was interviewed for the podcast Therapy for Guys, created and hosted by Quique Autrey, a teen and family therapist in Katy, Texas. The podcast’s tagline is, “A psychotherapist explores men’s issues relating to mental health, science, philosophy and spirituality.” Here’s the link: Beyond Theology: Christianity, Nonduality, and the Play of Existence And here’s…
Weird Studies podcast: “The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin”
I was recently interviewed by Phil Ford and JF Martel for their Weird Studies podcast. The episode dropped today: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin Episode description: Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood….
WHAT THE DAEMON SAID an Amazon #1 seller
Just a quick note to Teeming Brain readers to observe that as of today, the Kindle edition of my What the Daemon Said is the #1 new release in Amazon’s Gothic and Romantic Literary Criticism category. It also sits at #10 overall in Horror and Supernatural Literary Criticism. You can order from Amazon here. Or…
View the index for WHAT THE DAEMON SAID
Today is the official publication date for What the Daemon Said. John Shirley calls it “a fine, wide-ranging exploration of the deepest wellsprings of nightmare and chthonic revelation.” Laird Barron calls it “a treasure trove for fans and scholars of weird fiction.” Brian Keene calls it “a crucial deep dive into some of the darkest,…
Should I start a Substack? Or a Patreon?
I’m seeking input from my Teeming Brain readers on a decision about my online future as a writer. On the one hand, I’m thinking of launching a Substack about the daimon muse. It would be a blog-slash-newsletter on the practical and philosophical work of triangulating the inner genius at the nexus of creativity, consciousness, and…
We’re All Possessed: A Demonology of Social Media Madness
Here’s Baylor University humanities professor Alan Jacobs, in a remarkable essay for The New Atlantis, referencing a variety of literary and real-world instances of the “madness of crowds” (as in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot) to offer a demonic account of what’s happening to us in this age of digitally distributed memes and thought…
The Internet + 24/7 Capitalism = Apocalyptic Dystopia
Here’s a pointedly stark and palpably fierce excerpt from art critic and essayist Jonathan Crary’s Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World, which was published just this month: If there is to be a livable and shared future on our planet, it will be a future offline, uncoupled from the world-destroying systems…