I’ll present this without comment, since it speaks for itself. But I will mention that I almost broke a rib laughing.
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.
New interview at Dystopia Press
Just published: “Meet the Author: Matt Cardin” This is an interview with me at the blog for Dystopia Press, a new publisher of apocalyptic and dystopian fiction (founded in late 2009). Dystopia Press is run by Mark Long, who also created and runs TSTC Publishing, the official press of the Texas State Technical College system….
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen: Funny or Die’s “The Ralph Macchio Story”
Oh. My. God. Words can’t capture the wondrous awesomeness of this thing. Especially for somebody like me, who came of age in the 1980s, watched Eight Is Enough, was weaned on the likes of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire, and flipped over the original The Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio playing himself at 48,…
Published: DARK AWAKENINGS
The wait is over. The stars are right. Some rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born, and my long-awaited Dark Awakenings collection is now loosed upon the world. Publisher: Mythos Books Date: May 2010 Length: 319 pages Table of Contents: Available at MattCardin.com Click here to purchase the book directly from the publisher and…
Shadow Visitors: Sleep paralysis and discarnate “dark ones”
A week or so ago I finished reading Louis Proud’s fascinating book Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences. Published just last year, it argues that sleep paralysis is actually a cousin to spirit mediumship, in that the experience represents an actual visitation by paranormal entities that live constantly among…
Can Hollywood help us envision a post-apocalyptic world that’s not so bad?
Everything indeed appears to be lining up in favor of producing a post-petroleum, and therefore post-how-we-live-now, world of the near future. You and I will see and experience the transition within our own lifetimes, if we live what’s now considered a normal span. So here’s hoping. As in, hoping not for Star Trek, and definitely not for Mad Max, but for Mayberry.
Listen up, kids: More college DOES NOT equal more money
Diane Auer Jones, who in addition to being the president of the education-oriented policy institute Washington Campus is a former assistant secretary for postsecondary education in the U.S. Department of Education, recently wrote a blog post for The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog (“Straddling 2 Centuries,” April 29) that should be required reading for…
Narrative frames and perceptive reviewers
The creator of the online fiction review site A Story a Day Keeps Boredom Away recently reviewed all of the stories in the new Dark Faith anthology. He had this to say about my story “Chimeras & Grotesqueries”: I love the type of story that starts with a preface declaring that what follows was found…
Peak Oil, Propaganda Emails, and the Bakken Formation
Recently I said (in “Peak oil: Time to shut up as the conversation goes global“) that I don’t plan on talking about peak oil anymore despite my several years of doing so, because in the past year, and especially the past few months, the cultural conversation about it has become so mainstream and prominent that…
The Rise of “Zombie Walks”: Is the human race finally embracing its true identity?
So have you heard of zombie walks, ladies and gentlemen? I’m talking about those increasingly ubiquitous events where groups of respectable everyday folk get in touch with their inner zombie by dressing up in costumes and makeup as the named monster in its modern mass entertainment incarnation — that is, as reanimated, flesh-eating corpses who…